This map is one of my top ten favorite! Map of Southern Turkestan was made as a base map by Ellswort
This map is one of my top ten favorite! Map of Southern Turkestan was made as a base map by Ellsworth Huntington for the American Commission to Negotiate Peace (the Inquiry) for their “Map of the Caspian Sea and of the region to the East,” to be used at the Paris Peace Conference.Not only is the relief shown by some beautiful shading, but the annotations describe the contents of the map and show where map is to be altered and trimmed for the Inquiry’s purposes: “The shaded area shows the region between the Caspian Sea and the Sea of Aral which would be submerged if Aral should be filled to overflowing, and the Caspian should rise about 150 feet above the present level (after Konchin)”–[Ellsworth Huntington]. The map was one of over 700 items from our collection that were loaned to the Peace Conference at Versailles. All items that went were marked with the stamp or given a sticker that reads: “Loaned by the American Geographical Society to the Peace Conference at Versailles, 1918-1919.”I use the map as a teaching tool to show how maps themselves are sometimes “in progress.” There are annotations all over the place, the title is scratched out, and there are notes to fix the shading in some places. -- source link
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