Collection: Osher Map Library Collection

Name: Dated events map, the world to day, with latest boundaries.

Barcode: 59153

Image Number: 59153.0001

Creator: Turner, Stanley F., 1883-1953

Printmaker: C.C. Petersen (Firm),

Publishing Location: Toronto (Ont.) and Baltimore (Md.)

Brief Description: Map was published three years after the end of World War II. It includes text boxes summarizing events such as the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia in February, 1948. Included is a list of United Nations member countries, inset maps of Germany under allied occupation ; suggested partition of Palestine and inset of South America.

Publisher: Gettier-Montanye, Inc.

Date/Date Range Published: 1948

Language: English

Region Depicted: World

Map Type: GeographicalHistorical maps

Dimensions: Map: 49.5 x 66 cm on sheet: 51 x 67 cm

Material Type: Paper

Historical Context: The map presents the political situation after World War II and reflecting the increasing Cold War between the Soviet Union and the European countries. 

LC Call Number: G3201.S6 1948 T8

OCLC: 1528575881

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945

Permanent URL: https://oshermaps.org/map/59153.0001