An exceedingly rare find. This is a Japanese map of the world dated to the 8th year of the Emperor’s Meiji’s reign, or 1897. Depicts the entire world on a hemisphere projection with smaller polar proj
- Date
- 1875
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 6,000 × 4,589 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: its maker died more than 70 years ago.
Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-70-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
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"An exceedingly rare find. This is a Japanese map of the world dated to the 8th year of the Emperor’s Meiji’s reign, or 1897. Depicts the entire world on a hemisphere projection with smaller polar proj" (1875). Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1875_Meiji_8_Japanese_Map_of_the_World_-_Geographicus_-_World-meiji8-1875.jpgNeed maps for a whole project? Add Find Any Map to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 144490.
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