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#World Wednesday
This map, the Trans-Orbal Map: A Global Press Map for One World, with the text by Walter Ristow. This map which was produced from a photograph of a transparent globe permits a view through the orb or globe; and, enables one to observe the relationship of all the continents to one another and to the world as a whole. It also shows three ancillary maps of the transparent globe showing reverse areas of the main map and air lines around the world. It was published by Global Press Co. in 1944.
050 J-1944
[Image description: A see-through globe showing all the continents from one angle. Beneath this are three more see-through globes showing the opposite side of the first globe.]
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This map of the world comes from Pan American World Airways and its creator International Map Company, Inc. It shows the Routes of the Flying Clipper Ships (as of December 7, 1941, subsequent wartime changes censored). It also says the quote “Wings of Democracy,” and was made in 1941.
050 M-[1941]
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Colombia and Brazil in the 1860s.
German Photographer Albert Frisch spent years exploring and documenting the native inhabitants, flora, and fauna of Brazil and Colombia before ultimately publishing a collection of prints in an album titled “Photographs from Amazonia” in 1867. All 27 photographs are included in the Getty Museum’s Open Content Collection, available to download and use for any purpose.
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