world map gfroerer curt (1 Ergebnisse)

Colour bird's eye view map, 22.4 x 39.3 cms on a newspaper leaf trimmed to a half sheet 29.8 x 41.6 cms (including caption), slight toning at an old central fold, the map in very good condition. Unrelated black and white photographic illustrations on the verso "Pre-flight Trainers used in Chicago to give ground instruction to would-be pilots" and "New rekindled Montauk Light, Long Island, N.Y." Map published in the Chicago Daily Tribune days before the bombing of Hiroshima on August 6,1945. "Perspective map of Tokyo bay and contiguous land and sea areas, showing Tokyo, Yokohama, the Yokosuka naval base, industrial sections and other features .In this map north is at the right instead of at the top - an expedient adopted to show all of the bay as large as possible in half page space." (caption).