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Space Age News Map, inner side

This informative sheet, created by Rand McNally on behalf of Central Ohio’s WBNS-TV, provides a useful primer on the major geopolitical arenas of the 1950s. Billed as the Space Age News Map, the piece provides numerous maps, descriptive text, and illustrated diagrams that attempt to explain the postwar world and beyond. The inner side offers a similar overview of the Middle East (then undergoing a wave of Pan-Arabism), as well as the political alliances of East vs. West on a polar map of the world. Several charts provide additional details on the functionality of a satellite, the relative size of planets, the Earth’s atmosphere, and the increasing range of new missile technology.

Date
1957
Mapmaker / publisher
Rand McNally
Place
the Middle East
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
chart
Original size
5,483 × 7,500 pixels

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Reason: its US copyright was not renewed (published 1931–1963).

Read from: Commons licence category: PD US not renewed; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"Space Age News Map, inner side" (1957). Rand McNally, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Space_Age_News_Map,_inner_side.jpg

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