Collection: Osher Map Library Collection

Name: The World at One View

Barcode: 49667

Image Number: 49667.0001

Creator: Phelps, Humphrey, active 19th century

Publishing Location: New York

Brief Description: Lithographic pictorial work whose purpose was to inform American viewers of the wider world and America's place in it. Illustrations in the four corners depict Caucasian, Mongol, African and Malay races. In between the 2 hemispheres is a Native American with raised hatchet representing the ongoing conflicts of Indians versus expansion into the West. Included are tables of populations of modern and ancient cities, earth's population and religions of the world. Also pictured are illustrations of women in costume representing their countries. Illustrated are the highest buildings in the world including the Bunker Hill Monument, St. Peter's in Rome, the Sphinx and pyramids in Egypt.

Publisher: Ensign, Bridgman & Fanning

Date/Date Range Produced: 1847

Date/Date Range Published: 1847

Language: English

Dimensions: 2 hemispheres each 28 cm in diameter on sheet 59 x 78 cm

LC Call Number: G3201.A5 P4 1847

OCLC: 966688656

Permanent URL: https://oshermaps.org/map/49667.0001