I run into these comparative maps all the time—showing one territory superimposed over another—so I'm gonna start dumping them all into this one thread.
1. Middle East in orange over the US, 1962. archive.org/details/howpeo…
1. Middle East in orange over the US, 1962. archive.org/details/howpeo…
4. Lil tuckers: South America (and Iowa, Missouri and Illinois), China (and Illinois), Africa (and California), etc. 1877 archive.org/details/ost-ge…
10. The Russian battlefield is shown here superimposed on a map of the U.S. (1943) archive.org/details/life15…
11. Contiguous U.S., Texas, Ohio, Vermont and (a blobby thing that could be) Rhode Island. archive.org/details/geogra…
13. This one's a bit different. Typically these comparative graphics rely on familiar geographies. In this case it's mostly about size. Areas burned in Chicago and San Francisco fires. archive.org/details/histor…
To be clear—now that I'm more than a baker's dozen in—I cannot vouch for the accuracy of these maps. This is simply a list of a certain form a graphic. Reproduce at your own risk. | Disclaimer thanks to the ever-careful @gabrieldance 🙏
15. Outline map of Australia superimposed on outline of part of North America of same scale, in correct latitude. archive.org/details/nation…
16. "A graphic idea of the extent of Japan's conquests in China—Territory on Asia's mainland now controlled by Japan shown in the same scale with the United States." New York Times, March 12, 1939.
17. "Arabian peninsular is drawn to the same scale as the U.S." New York Times, November 8, 1964.
18. Here's one that's explicitly NOT to scale as an illustration of how map scales work. Understanding Maps : Charting the Land, Sea, and Sky, 1969. archive.org/details/unders…
20. Map showing key points in China-Burma-India Theatre of Operations (with North America for scale). 1944 catalog.archives.gov/id/204832063
21. "At their correct latitudes, both countries in the same scale, the United States is shown superimposed on the Soviet Union." 1962 archive.org/details/earthy…
22. Lil comparative area Penn.
Eliza Happy Morton's Elementary Geography. Kinda figured she was from Pennsylvania based on the use of the state as an area reference here. But she was from Maine (the book was, however, published in Philadelphia). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_Hap…
Eliza Happy Morton's Elementary Geography. Kinda figured she was from Pennsylvania based on the use of the state as an area reference here. But she was from Maine (the book was, however, published in Philadelphia). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_Hap…
23. Part of the hinterland of Chicago, with areas of certain Western European lands superposed.
Jumbled territories make this more confusing to me than it is a helpful illustration of scale. But the word "superposed" is pretty great.
archive.org/details/geogra…
Jumbled territories make this more confusing to me than it is a helpful illustration of scale. But the word "superposed" is pretty great.
archive.org/details/geogra…
Ceres compared to Texas and the moon compared to the United States. Stars: A Guide to the Constellations, Sun, Moon, Planets and Other Features of the Heavens, c. 1956.
25. In today's @nytimes by @scottreinhard: "The ash cloud was about 350 miles across, larger than Ohio, and continued to grow overnight."
26. Algeria compared to France and Texas. La Prensa, San Antonio, Texas. Feb. 26, 1957.
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