Detail View: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection: Text Page: Key to the maps
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Short Title:
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Text Page: Key to the maps
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Obj Height cm:
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36
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Obj Width cm:
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28
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Note:
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Key to the map symbols. The editors note in the preface that, "So far as we know this is the first book of its kind, integrating as it does maps and text in an effort to explain to the everyday reader the past, present, and possible future of the war." Many of the maps shown in three dimensional relief. Bound with a paper dust jacket with "A War Atlas for Americans. A guide to the nature and course of the war, containing 84 new maps and 60,000 words of interpretative text. Prepared with the assistance of the Office of War Information. Foreword by Elmer Davis. Published for Council on Books in Wartime by Simon and Schuster." With the view of the world showing the hemispheres on the front cover, and text and prices on the back cover.
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Full Title:
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(Text Page to) A War Atlas for Americans. Prepared with the Assistance of the Office of War Information. Published for Council on Books in Wartime by Simon and Schuster. New York. 1944.
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List No:
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1104.008
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Series No:
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8
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Pub Date:
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1944
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Pub Title:
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A War Atlas for Americans. Prepared with the Assistance of the Office of War Information. Published for Council on Books in Wartime by Simon and Schuster. New York. 1944.
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Pub Note:
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The editors note in the preface that, "So far as we know this is the first book of its kind, integrating as it does maps and text in an effort to explain to the everyday reader the past, present, and possible future of the war." Many of the maps shown in three dimensional relief. Bound with a paper dust jacket with "A War Atlas for Americans. A guide to the nature and course of the war, containing 84 new maps and 60,000 words of interpretative text. Prepared with the assistance of the Office of War Information. Foreword by Elmer Davis. Published for Council on Books in Wartime by Simon and Schuster."
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Pub List No:
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1104.000
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Pub Maps:
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84
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Pub Height cm:
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37
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Pub Width cm:
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29
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Image No:
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1104008
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Event:
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World War II
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Publisher Location:
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New York
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Publisher:
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Simon and Schuster
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Type:
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Text Page
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Publication Author:
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U.S. Office of War Information
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Pub Type:
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World Atlas
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Author:
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U.S. Office of War Information
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Date:
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1944
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