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FIGURE 1.1
International Map of the World, Hudson River, 1927
US Geological Survey
Public Domain: US government


 
FIGURE 1.2
International Map of the World adherents as of 1913
William Rankin
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FIGURE 1.3
A map at 1:2,000,000 –
“Northern Great Lakes States" from The National Atlas of the United States of America (1970)


A map at 1:1,000,000 –
International Map of the World, Lake Superior (1966)
A map at 1:250,000 –
Escanaba sheet from series V501 (1967)
all US Geological Survey
Public Domain: US government


 
FIGURE 1.4
Grid of the International Map of the World

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William Rankin
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FIGURE 1.5
Mapping projects at 1:1,000,000 as of 1905
from Albrecht Penck, “Fortschritte in der Herstellung einer Erdkarte in Maßtabe 1 : 1 000 000,” Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin (1905); shading added
Public Domain: copyright expired


 
FIGURE 1.6
Symbols for the International Map of the World, as approved in 1909
from Resolutions and Proceedings of the International Map Committee assembled in London, November, 1909 (London: HMSO, 1910)
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FIGURE 1.7
Symbols for the International Map of the World, as approved in 1913
from Carte du Monde au Millionième: Comptes Rendus des séances de la deuxième conférence internationale, Paris, décembre 1913 (Paris: Service Géographique, 1914)
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FIGURE 1.8
Comparison of 1909 and 1913 elevation colors for the International Map of the World
from Resolutions and Proceedings of the International Map Committee assembled in London, November, 1909 (London: HMSO, 1910) and Carte du Monde au Millionième: Comptes Rendus des séances de la deuxième conférence internationale, Paris, décembre 1913 (Paris: Service Géographique, 1914)
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FIGURE 1.9
Responsibility for the International Map of the World in Africa, as approved in 1913
William Rankin
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FIGURE 1.10
Comparison of symbols for the International Map of the World with other topographic maps of the same era
William Rankin
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FIGURE 1.11
Typical land-cover symbols from the early twentieth century
from John Clayton Tracy, Plane Surveying: A Text-book and Pocket Manual (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1906), 521
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FIGURE 1.12
Frontispiece to the International Map of the World annual reports
from Carte du Monde au Millionième: Rapport pour 1921 (Southampton: Ordnance Survey, 1922)
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NOTE 1.71
Members of the International Commission for Air Navigation as of 1939
William Rankin
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FIGURE 1.13
French aeronautical chart, Chalons (1911)
from P. Pollacchi, “La carte aéronautique du service géographique de l’armée,” Annales de Géographie 20, no. 112 (1911), plate 18
Public Domain: copyright expired


 
FIGURE 1.14
Aeronautical adaptation of the International Map of the World sheet for London (1934)
British War Office
Public Domain: expired Crown Copyright


 
FIGURE 1.15
Official International Map of the World sheets published before 1939
William Rankin
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FIGURE 1.16
Unofficial or “provisional” International Map of the World sheets published before 1939
William Rankin
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FIGURE 1.17
Sources assembled at the American Geographical Society for the Map of Hispanic America.
American Geographical Society
Copyright 1946, renewed 1973


 
FIGURE 1.18
Relative reliability diagram for The Map of Hispanic AmericaIstmo de Tehuantepec, 1938
American Geographical Society
Public Domain: copyright not renewed


 
FIGURE 1.19
Assembling a portion of the American Geographical Soviety's Map of Hispanic America
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Copyright 1941


 
FIGURE 1.20
Assembling the Map of Hispanic America in the courtyard of the American Geographical Society
American Geographical Society
Copyright 1946, renewed 1973


 
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