1940s Maps

Vintage Map of Nantucket Town by Ruth Haviland Sutton, 1946, a classic vintage tourist map of Nantucket Island showing historic landmarks and geogr...

A wonderful set of Terrestrial and Celestial 12 inch globes by George Philip and Son. Presented on brass inclined plain mounts attached to original turned ebonized wooden bases and uprights with axes secured at the top by brass acorn finials. Unusually, the terrestrial globe has a copyright date shown under the cartouche, 1946. The celestial globe is printed in beige against a dark blue background and shows the constellations and many named stars. Solid lines connect the stars within constellations rather than illustrating them as mythological and other figures.? A cartouche is present that includes the title and maker's address. When looking at the stars from Earth the viewpoint is effectively inside a celestial sphere. The surface of a celestial globe shows the star field as a projection viewed from the outside and is therefore reversed, with the constellations appearing as their mirror images. The terrestrial globe is printed in several colours and comprises of twelve coated lithographic paper gores with polar calottes over a twelve inch card sphere. The age of the globe has been confirmed by the political borders and named cities displayed. The globe is nicely detailed and has a grid network of parallels and meridians. It shows all the continents and countries as they were at the time it was printed and also indicates all the principal steamship routes with distances in nautical miles. The globe also has a printed Analemma - a diagram showing the declination of the Sun for every day in the year and the equation of time. The Analemma therefore shows the position of the Sun in the sky as seen from a fixed location on Earth at the same mean solar time, as the sun's position varies over the course of a year. A cartouche is present that includes the title and maker's address. Dimensions of each globe: 30.5 cm/12 inches (diameter) x 59 cm/23 1/4 inches (max height). George Philip, (1800–1882) was a cartographer and map publisher. He founded George Philip & Sons in 1834 in Liverpool primarily as a bookseller and stationer, but rapidly expanding to become a publisher of primarily maps, atlases and educational works. He had one son, also George (1823–1902), who was admitted to the business in 1848. George senior was born in Huntly, Aberdeenshire and by 1819 he had become assistant to the Liverpool bookseller, William Grapel before going on to start his own business. He used cartographers (such as John Bartholomew the elder, August Petermann, and William Hughes) to produce maps on copper plates. Philip then had these printed and hand-coloured by his women tinters. The business expanded rapidly and by the time he produced his county maps of 1862 he was using machine...

This bird’s eye view of New York City was published in 1945 by the Supervue Map and Guide Organization. The map shows the roads and major points of interest, which, coupled with a detailed index surrounding the map, helped tourists locate key attractions, historical sites, steamship piers, parks and squares, and bridges. The map was originally issued folded into printed paper covers with black and white photographic images of the city. On the verso of the map are small black and white maps...

Old oak chest of drawers especially for maps and/o drawings. Cabinet consists of 2 parts. Entirely in perfect condition. Origin: England Period: Approx. 1940 Size 95cm x 68cm x H....

Old oak chest of drawers especially for maps and/o drawings. Cabinet consists of 2 parts. Entirely in perfect condition. Origin: England Period: Approx. 1940 Size 116cm x 78cm x H...

Handsome Scholarly world globe with a Regency style mahogany base. The globe is 16 inches in diameter, circa 1940, Chicago. Perfect addition to a library or study.

This large map of the United States was issued by Rand McNally and Company on behalf of the Union Pacific Railroad. The map embraces the whole of the United States, illustrating the routes of the Union Pacific Railroad and its many subsidiaries. This scarce railroad map was issued exclusively for company use at larger stations. Railroad routes for the Union Pacific Railway are boldly printed in red and white. Indian reservations and National Parks are also marked. In the lower left corner is an inset map showing the Pacific Ocean and principal steamship lines, while an inset map showing the Atlantic Ocean and the principal steamship lines can be found in the lower right. Sun Valley Resort appears on this map. It was founded in 1936 by the chairman of the Union Pacific Railroad, primarily to increase ridership on U.P. passenger trains in the Western United States and can be seen in the heavily tracked area of Idaho. The Union Pacific Rail Road was founded in July of 1862, during the second year of the American Civil War. It was incorporated under an act of Congress, the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862. The act was approved by President Lincoln and provided for the construction of railroads from the Missouri River to the Pacific as a war measure for the preservation of the Union. The Union Pacific was constructed in two parts, westward from Council Bluffs, Iowa to meet the Central Pacific Railroad line, which was constructed eastward from Sacramento, California. The railroad tycoon Leland Stanford drove the Golden Spike...

Very nice and original 20th century French rolling bar world globe from the 1940s. Wooden structure covered by a paper world map. Opening top to store bottles. The inside is covere...

A striking pictorial map by Stanley Turner, published in 1943. The map presents the United States during World War II and is so titled “United States at War.” Around the map’s edges ...

This is an original WWII folding folio map of the Mediterranean, Europe, and Africa. The map was one of six foldout maps in a color lithographic folio titled "Battle Maps: Covering All War Fronts", published between 1941 and 1944. The map is incredibly detailed and indicates Naval and Air bases, vital military resources, air raids, supply lines, and tracks mileages between key cities...

This is a uniquely Texas-centered, tongue-in-cheek map of the United States, published in 1948. The map reflects a massive Texas, prominently occupying the center and south of the United States, with all other states squeezed to the northeast and northwest. In fact, the Northeastern states are humorously shown as "unannexed territory" and the western states as "ceded territory." The map is populated with decorative accents and colorful, humorous pictographs. They include a tornado, called "interpanhandle wheat harvester", the “orneriest rattlesnakes", and a rodeo cowboy described as “the man that couldn't be throw'd and the horse that couldn't be rode." The pictographs boast the best of everything in Texas: "prickliest pears," "most cantankerous coyotes," “unloansome pines,” and similar. Along the border illustrations are depictions of Texas life and history, including The Alamo and San Jacinto Monument as well as more modern skyscrapers. The map is drawn to a scale of “1 inch = 5 Texas Grapefruit.” The map was published in Texas by John Randolph with Mark Storm...

Framed New York Central Railway Map Original from 1943 With Railway Label, The map is by Baker, Jones, Hausauer, Inc. Buffalo, N.Y. The map covers all line...