1948 world map

1948 Turner Map of the World on a Polar Projection


Title


Dated Events Map The World To Day with Latest Boundaries.

  1948 (undated)    

20 x 26.25 in (50.8 x 66.675 cm)


Description


This is a 1948 Stanley Francis Turner map of the world on a polar projection. Completed in Turner's iconic style, the countries of the world are all labeled and many of these countries' flags are illustrated as well. World capitals are highlighted in yellow and myriad other cities throughout the world are also labeled. Africa's geography still represents the era of colonialism, with French Equatorial Africa, French West Africa, the Belgian Congo, Rhodesia, and Tanganyika all labeled. Icons mark natural resources, including oil, coal, iron, steel, and gold, along with corn, wool, lumber, and rubber. Small mushroom clouds mark 'sources of uranium'. Insets in the lower left corner detail central and eastern Europe (including the Allied occupation of Germany), the suggested partition of Palestine (with yellow shaded areas marking proposed Jewish regions), and southern South America (which was cut off by the map's projection).
Dated Events Content
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Israel's borders explained in maps






More than 75 years after Israel declared statehood, its borders are yet to be entirely settled. Wars, treaties and occupation mean the shape of the Jewish state has changed over time, and in parts is still undefined. Here is a series of maps explaining why.








The land which would become Israel was for centuries part of the Turkish-ruled Ottoman Empire. After World War One and the collapse of the empire, territory known as Palestine - the portion of which west of the River Jordan was also known as the land of Israel by Jews - was marked out and assigned to Britain to administer by the victorious allied powers (soon after endorsed by the League of Nations).



The terms of the mandate entrusted Britain with establishing in Palestine "a national home for the Jewish people", so long as doing so did not prejudice the civil and religious rights of non-Jewish communities there.







The rise of Palestinian Arab nationalism coupled with the rapid growth of Palestine's smaller Jewish population - especially after the advent of Nazism in the 1930s - saw an escalation in Arab-Jewish violence in Palestine.



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1948 Friendship Press Pictorial Map of the World - Proof State!


Title


Picture Map of the World.

  1948 (dated)    

37.25 x 48 in (94.615 x 121.92 cm)

    1 : 33000000


Description


This is a 1948 Janet Smalley and Jeanne McLavy pictorial map of the world. Icons placed across the world highlight historic landmarks, such as the Lincoln Memorial, Cristo Redentor in Rio de Janeiro, the Sphinx at Giza, the Acropolis in Athens, St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow, and the Taj Mahal in Agra, India. Other icons illustrate trains, planes, and buses, moving the world's people from one place to another. Churches appear throughout the world as well, although many are not identifiable. Penguins appear along the bottom border. Five blank boxes are scattered around the map, likely meant to highlight cultural events worldwide, since one box contains an illustration of the Boy's Festival in Japan.
The Borders
Content in the top and bottom border differs from that along the sides. Aspects of human culture appear on the left. Smalley and McLavy chose to highlight architecture (Notre Dame in Paris), sculpture (The Winged Victory of Samothrace),

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Author

[Portugal. Ministério das Colónias, Portugal. Junta de Investigações Coloniais]



Full Title

Viagens marítimas de descobrimento ao longo da costa ocidental da África. Gravada e impressa no Instituto Geographico e Cadastral, em 1946. Ministério das Colónias, Junta das Missões Geográficas e de Investigações Coloniais.



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Map of Africa, featuring maritime voyages of Portuguese exploration along the west coast. Also shows cities, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines and islands. Includes latitudinal and longitudinal lines, as well as explanatory notes. Colored lithograph. Map is 35 x 24 cm, on sheet 48 x 34 cm.





Full Title

(Covers to) Hammond's New World Atlas. Containing New and Complete Historical, Economic, Political and Physical Maps of the Entire World in Full Colors with Complete Indexes and the Races of Mankind, Illustrated Gazetteer of the World, Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States and Territories. Garden City Publishing Company, Inc. Garden City, N.Y., U.S.A. 1948.



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Arylide yellow and pine green cloth covered boards with large compass rose, shaded relief western hemisphere, and fl