This map was drawn in 1859 by German cartographer Maximilian von Sonnenstern using measurements taken by Augustín van de...
Propaganda Maps
Talking about plans (1944)
This map, created by the Nazi Party, was dropped as a leaflet on American troops during the battle...
Map of the eagle of the United States (1833)
This map, created by James Churchman, was published in the United States alongside the book Rudiments of National Knowledge.
87,545,000 Germans in Europe (1938)
This map, drawn by Arnold Hillen-Ziegfeld and published in Germany in 1938, represents the idea of a culture and a...
A united Europe, a guarantee of peace (1951)
This poster was created by Morac in 1951 for the French organisation Paix et Liberté (Peace and Freedom), in the...
Geography for the Republican Party (1939)
This map was created by Erik Nitsche for Fortune magazine and published in 1939. The illustration, with an important...
Topographical map of Tibet (1950)
This topographical map of Tibet was created by the Chunghwa publishing company for use in Chinese schools in...
Races of immigrants in 1905 (1906)
This map by Howard Benjamin Grose is part of his book Aliens or Americans?, published in 1906. In the book,...
The Russian Spider Seeks New Victims (1940)
This map was drawn by Howard Burke and published by the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper in 1940, in the context...
The true size of Brazil (1970)
This map, published around 1970, compares the size of Brazil with the size of Europe.
Two ways to reach Japan, one may take a decade (1943)
This map was drawn by Howard Burke and published by the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper in 1943, in the context...
How bankers make a difference abroad (1956)
This map was published as part of an advertising campaign by Citibank, one of the largest banks in the United States...
The Threat to Freedom of the Seas (1918)
This poster, by an unknown artist, was published in Germany in 1918 during the First World War. In...
Frenchmen, this is your empire (1938)
This map was published by Taride, a Parisian publishing house, in 1938. The map shows all of France's possessions in...
The landings during the invasions of England (1803)
This map, created by English cartographer John Russell in 1803, was published in London in the context of the...
Oil, the target of the Axis powers (1942)
This map was created by Edwin L. Sundberg and published in the American weekly Sunday News on 26 July 1942...
The Palestinian Archipelago (2008)
This map was created by Julien Bousac, author of the blog Obgéographiques, in 2008 as part of a collaboration with Le...
The Great Idea, Greek irredentism (1920)
This map, published by Gr. Kouriotis in 1920, shows Greek irredentist claims in the context of the war...
The Serpent That Strangled the South (1861)
This map by J. B. Elliott was published in 1861, in the context of the American Civil War...
Countries that owned their railway network (1894)
This map, published by Walter Vrooman in 1894, shows the countries whose railway networks were state-owned, in their...
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