Detail View: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection: Index: Index of Names and Places
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Short Title:
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Index: Index of Names and Places
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Obj Height cm:
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36
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Obj Width cm:
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57
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Scale 1:
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None shown
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Note:
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Alphabetical Index of names and Places in the world.
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Full Title:
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(Index to) Index of Names and Places. (to accompany) 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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1104.052
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Page No:
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85
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Series No:
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52
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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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1104052
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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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Index 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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