Comparative Area in Invasion Planning
This map, from the Matthews-Northrup Global Atlas of the World at War (1944), has an interesting connection between my interest in comparative area symbols and wartime strategic atlases. As an…
Two very different comparative area symbols
Some comparative area symbols make a lot of sense. There is logic behind James Monteith's use of Kansas for its standard dimensions of 200x400 miles. And Jacques Redway's use of…
Monteith’s Perspective View of the Mississippi River
Although I have called James Monteith the "Master of the Margins," one of the other things I find unique and innovative about Monteith is his perspective illustrations of large geographic…
Stray Ohio
Years ago I purchased a couple copies of The War Atlas for Americans. It is full of interesting wartime maps, including many orthographic views (not surprising that Richard Edes Harrison…