{"title":"Harrison, Richard Edes","description":"\u003cp\u003eRichard Edes Harrison (1901-1994) was an influential American cartographer known for revolutionizing the art of mapmaking in the mid-20th century. He was the house cartographer of Fortune and a consultant at Life for almost two decades.  His innovative, perspective-based maps emphasized a three-dimensional, bird's-eye view, offering a novel representation of geography. Harrison's maps gained prominence during World War II, where his work helped the American public understand global events. His distinctive use of projection and perspective challenged traditional map conventions, blending art and geography to create compelling visuals. Harrison's contributions helped change how people perceived the world, making geography more accessible and engaging for general audiences. He played a key role in \"challenging cartographic perspectives and attempting to change spatial thinking on the everyday level during America’s rise to superpower status\". His maps have been described as \"critical to the history of American cartography.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"one-world-one-war-a-map-showing-the-line-up-by-richard-edes-harrison-1942-p-7-019769","title":"One World One War. A map showing the line-up… by Richard Edes Harrison 1942","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'A Fortune Map. \"One World One War. A map showing the line-up and the strategic stakes in this first global war\"'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRichard Edes Harrison's map \"One World, One War,\" published in Fortune magazine in 1942, just a few months after Pearl Harbor is a striking example of wartime cartography that emphasizes the interconnectedness of global conflict during World War II. Harrison, known for his innovative use of projection, employed an azimuthal equidistant projection centered on the North Pole, which presented the world in a way that highlighted the relative proximity of continents across the northern hemisphere. This view underscored the strategic importance of air routes and global alliances. By using this unconventional perspective, Harrison illustrated the concept of a single, interconnected global theater of war, visually reinforcing the notion that the conflict was truly worldwide, affecting all continents and nations. The map served to provide an understanding of the war's global scale and the necessity for international coordination. Each country is coloured on a spectrum to indicate to which side in the conflict their loyalties lay, and their degree of commitment to that cause. Reflecting the shifting and sometimes unclear nature of these alignments, both Thailand and Finland are cast as members of the Axis, although in Thailand's alliance with Japan was someone coercive in nature, and Finland had been invaded by Russia early in the war.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50722831958363,"sku":"P-7-019769","price":230.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-019769a_24c4cd5e-ee69-4b2b-a32c-fa22c2a1f9d9.jpg?v=1778179101"},{"product_id":"gulf-oil-by-richard-edes-harrison-texas-oklahoma-venezuela-1937-old-map-p-7-019842","title":"Gulf Oil by Richard Edes Harrison. 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In the United States, competitor pipelines are also mapped, providing a snapshot of the oil extraction and supply infrastructure of the United States at the time of publication.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50722834743643,"sku":"P-7-019842","price":115.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-019842a_c7d9f31a-989c-47a8-b6fd-36029489160c.jpg?v=1778179101"},{"product_id":"the-city-of-new-york-by-richard-edes-harrison-1939-old-vintage-map-plan-chart-p-7-019858","title":"The City of New York by Richard Edes Harrison 1939 old vintage map plan chart","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'The City of New York'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 1939 map of New York City by Richard Edes Harrison offers a visually striking and data-rich portrayal of the city’s Five Boroughs. Published in conjunction with the 1939 New York World’s Fair, it features the elevations of the Fair's iconic Trylon and Perisphere alongside the city’s tallest buildings of the time— the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, and Rockefeller Center—next to the scale at the bottom. The map’s colour-coded zones distinguish residential, commercial, industrial, and federal properties, underscoring the still predominantly industrial character of the waterfront at that time. Parks and cemeteries are clearly marked, and the two airports of the era, Floyd Bennett Field and North Beach Airport (renamed LaGuardia in 1947), are highlighted; Idlewild (later JFK) would not open until 1948. An inset of lower Manhattan provides detailed views of high-value properties assessed at over $5 million, including major business buildings, stores, hotels, and theatres. Additionally, the map presents an unusual comparison of day versus night population density across the five boroughs, illustrating the daily shift of the city’s working population between Manhattan’s Central Business District and the other more residential or \"dormitory\" boroughs. Harrison’s innovative design blends precise geographic detail with vibrant aesthetics, resulting in both a functional and visually captivating representation of New York City during a transformative era in its history.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50722835235163,"sku":"P-7-019858","price":400.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-019858a.jpg?v=1777622287"},{"product_id":"world-island-persuasive-world-war-two-map-richard-edes-harrison-fortune-1943-p-7-019877","title":"World Island. Persuasive World War Two map. Richard Edes Harrison. 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Known for his mastery and use of unconventional projections, Harrison explicitly rejects the Mercator projection as \"a dangerous map to use in studying global strategy.\" The map’s colour scheme uses a gradient from red to black, to indicate a spectrum from from Allied control, through influence to neutrality and Axis-held regions, making the Allied encirclement strategy visually clear. Within this framework, Harrison underscores the strategic importance of the Soviet Union’s threat to the Axis from the east and the significance of averting the threat to India from German and Japanese forces in 1942.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50722836152667,"sku":"P-7-019877","price":230.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-019877a_5d14384e-a311-4aad-a3d1-10d04c7131cc.jpg?v=1778179102"},{"product_id":"the-not-so-soft-underside-by-richard-edes-harrison-mediterranean-1943-old-map-p-7-019876","title":"The Not-so Soft Underside by Richard Edes Harrison. 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The map and its accompanying text challenge the prevailing military orthodoxy of the Mediterranean as the Axis's “soft” or easily invaded underbelly, highlighting instead the significant geographic, logistical, and military obstacles. The text emphasizes the difficulty of advancing through mountainous terrain like the Pyrenees, Alps, and Balkans, which have historically hindered invasions. It also stresses the strategic importance of Allied control over the Mediterranean in disrupting Axis supply lines and compelling Germany to defend its southern borders. With a dramatic perspective as if viewed from space, the map centers on Southern Europe from the Allied vantage point in North Africa. The topographical emphasis underscores natural barriers and strategically important locations, while the projection and scale highlight the vast, challenging expanse of the Mediterranean theatre. This innovative approach effectively conveys the region's geographic complexities and military challenges. The Allied invasion of Italy, which began several months later in July 1943, led quickly to the collapse of the Fascist regime and Italy changing sides; Hitler was required to move a considerable number of his forces from the Eastern Front to defend his \"soft underbelly\". The Allies suffered approximately 375,000 casualties in the Italian campaign before the German capitulation in May 1945\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50722836316507,"sku":"P-7-019876","price":160.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-019876a_02ea4e1f-ea4a-486f-ad60-1bac9be91d04.jpg?v=1778179101"},{"product_id":"canada-s-postwar-air-policy-the-air-shall-be-how-free-1943-old-vintage-map-p-7-019890","title":"Canada's postwar air policy - The air shall be how free? 1943 old vintage map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Canada's postwar air policy - The air shall be how free over the unguarded frontier between us?'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50722836480347,"sku":"P-7-019890","price":44.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-019890a.jpg?v=1748735032"},{"product_id":"great-circle-airways-by-richard-edes-harrison-geostrategic-persuasive-map-1943-p-7-019883","title":"Great Circle Airways by Richard Edes Harrison. 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On Harrison's gnomonic projection, all great-circle routes appear as straight lines, displaying the most direct paths. Centered on the North Pole, Harrison’s projection reveals that the shortest routes between North America and Eurasia—the flight paths of aircraft in the age of aviation—span the Arctic, underscoring the true proximity of these continents. This visualization highlighted the U.S.'s potential vulnerability to northern air attacks, a critical message in 1943 as air power began to reshape global warfare. Harrison’s map reshaped American perceptions of global proximity, demonstrating that modern warfare could bypass the perceived security of oceans, making the Arctic central to both defense and strategic planning. 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The central location of India and its proximity to both the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal underscore its importance as a bulwark against Communist expansion from the north. The map is designed to visually communicate the importance of South Asia as a defensive stronghold against Soviet and Chinese influence in Asia. The view from space and the topography depicted in a 3D relief style give prominence to the mountains that separate South Asia from Central Asia and China, symbolizing both physical and ideological divides. The map thus conveys a strategic narrative that underscores South Asia’s role as a “bastion” against Communism, reflecting an American perspective on the emerging Cold War geopolitics of the region.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50722837070171,"sku":"P-7-019909","price":105.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-019909a_cb45db75-91f2-4743-979c-22acd71f65ed.jpg?v=1778179101"},{"product_id":"the-communist-fastness-by-richard-edes-harrison-cold-war-geostrategic-map-1950-p-7-019908","title":"The Communist Fastness by Richard Edes Harrison. 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The purpose here is to show in perspective the Russian relations to the rest of Europe, Asia and, most important, to North America, the Atlantic, Arctic, and Pacific Oceans.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50722837561691,"sku":"P-7-019908","price":105.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-019908a.jpg?v=1778179105"},{"product_id":"world-war-2-pacific-arena-persuasive-map-richard-edes-harrison-for-fortune-1942-p-7-019947","title":"World War 2 Pacific Arena persuasive map. 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Harrison highlights the \"great geopolitcal logic\" of the protective barrier afforded to Japan by its territorial gains, which shield it from attacks on multiple fronts, including China, Siberia, and Alaska, while launching offensives against Japan, particularly from distant Australian bases, was logistically challenging due to vast distances. For the United States, in Harrison's view, the map underscores the strategic necessity of securing northern and Arctic routes to counter Japan’s defenses. He critiques the Mercator projection, which distorts polar regions, as unsuitable for global strategy. This map served as both a strategic wartime tool and a critique of conventional cartography, illustrating the Pacific’s pivotal role in World War II and the logistical complexities of the Allied fight against Japan.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50722837889371,"sku":"P-7-019947","price":220.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-019947a.jpg?v=1778179104"},{"product_id":"the-world-according-to-standard-oil-n-j-ww2-richard-edes-harrison-1940-map-p-7-019967","title":"The World According to Standard Oil (N.J.) WW2. 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Flags on the left margin graphically illustrate the tanker fleet's tonnage registered across various nations, emphasizing the company's maritime footprint. Accompanying text highlights geopolitical challenges affecting operations in 1940, including British wartime gasoline rationing and blockade of Germany, and asset nationalization\/expropriation in countries like Mexico and Bolivia. The projection distorts global geography to centre on the Northern Hemisphere, reflecting Standard Oil's commercial priorities and the interconnected nature of its operations. This pictorial map merges artistic design with data visualization, and serves as a commentary on the resilience of Standard Oil’s industrial empire amid shifting global tensions.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50722838544731,"sku":"P-7-019967","price":130.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-019967a_287587ee-16da-4e28-9eb4-9ea6d75db50c.jpg?v=1778179102"},{"product_id":"one-world-one-war-persuasive-map-world-war-2-richard-edes-harrison-1944-p-8-006742","title":"One World One War—Persuasive map—World War 2—Richard Edes Harrison 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'One World, One War'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne World, One War. This reduced atlas version of Harrison’s celebrated map, originally published in Fortune in March 1942, developed in turn from his August 1941 The World Divided, updates the war’s line-up to October 15, 1943. Centered on the North Pole, the azimuthal equidistant projection makes the polar sea the center of global strategy, drawing North America, Europe and Asia into one northern theater. Harrison uses colour to distinguish Allied, pro-Allied neutral, neutral, Axis-occupied and Axis territories, while red great-circle routes visualize supply and attack lines. Published in June 1944, the map argues that the war is one interconnected conflict.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934517686619,"sku":"P-8-006742","price":140.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006742a.jpg?v=1778179191"},{"product_id":"outward-from-the-u-s-persuasive-map-world-war-2-richard-edes-harrison-1944-p-8-006743","title":"Outward from the U.S.—Persuasive map—World War 2—Richard Edes Harrison 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Outward from the U.S.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis atlas version of an earlier Harrison map first published in Fortune’s September 1940 Atlas for the U.S. Citizen forms the conceptual opening to his American-facing sequence. Harrison’s imagined globe view—strikingly modern before the age of spaceflight—centers the United States, but only to undermine any complacent sense of isolation. His central point is that strategic distance must be measured on the globe, not on the familiar but distorting Mercator projection. Thus Alaska, Greenland, the Arctic, Latin America and the Atlantic press in as active strategic realities, while the text notes that the U.S. northeast coast is closer to England than to the South American bulge. Reissued in June 1944, after America had become a global belligerent, the map recasts geography as necessity.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934517752155,"sku":"P-8-006743","price":70.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006743a.jpg?v=1778179264"},{"product_id":"northeast-to-europe-persuasive-map-world-war-2-richard-edes-harrison-1944-p-8-006744","title":"Northeast to Europe—Persuasive map—World War 2—Richard Edes Harrison 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Northeast to Europe'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNortheast to Europe. This atlas version of an earlier Harrison map first published in Fortune’s September 1940 Atlas for the U.S. Citizen turns the North Atlantic into a corridor rather than a barrier. The sepia relief view highlights Iceland, Greenland, Labrador, Newfoundland and the St. Lawrence as strategically crucial stepping-stones between American arms production and Europe. Harrison’s text makes the logistical argument: Weapons made in Pittsburgh, Chicago and Detroit reach the European battlefront only through northern harbours, convoy routes, airfields and weather stations. Reissued in June 1944, with the success of the Normandy landings dependent on Atlantic supply, the map shows why bleak northern coasts had become indispensable strategic infrastructure.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934517817691,"sku":"P-8-006744","price":75.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006744a.jpg?v=1778179193"},{"product_id":"northwest-to-asia-persuasive-map-world-war-2-richard-edes-harrison-fortune-1944-p-8-006745","title":"Northwest to Asia—Persuasive map—World War 2—Richard Edes Harrison—Fortune 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Northwest to Asia'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNorthwest to Asia. 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This atlas version of an earlier Harrison map originally included in Fortune’s September 1940 Atlas for the U.S. Citizen overturns two assumptions: that Central America naturally unites the Americas, and that South America lies simply “south” of the United States. The map stresses barriers and chokepoints—the incomplete Pan-American Highway, sparse rail links, the Caribbean island screen and above all the Panama Canal. In wartime, the canal becomes the essential strategic object south of the United States, defended by sea and air bases, hidden anchorages and Caribbean control. 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Harrison argues that, unless better routes are blocked, South America and Africa “lead only to each other”: their bulges look close, but distance, routes and strategic purpose say otherwise. Ascension may link them, yet Dakar lies off the main great-circle routes and, without British control of the Mediterranean, Africa becomes an obstacle to be sailed around or flown over. Reissued in June 1944, the map teaches that strategy depends not on visual proximity, but on communications, bases and chokepoints.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934517948763,"sku":"P-8-006747","price":70.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006747a.jpg?v=1778179196"},{"product_id":"the-u-s-from-the-outside-persuasive-map-world-war-2-richard-edes-harrison-1944-p-8-006748","title":"The U.S. from the Outside—Persuasive map—World War 2—Richard Edes Harrison 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'The U.S. from the Outside'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The U.S. from the Outside\", originally issued in 1940 as \"Three Approaches to the United States\", reverses the American gaze. Harrison shows three hypothetical vulnerabilities: a German polar approach through Canada, a Japanese northern Pacific approach, and an East Coast threat from South America through the West Indies. Instead of viewing the United States outward, the map views the US from the persepctive of its  actual and potential enemies. 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It makes Britain, Iceland, the Azores, the North Atlantic and North America part of a single invasion geography: an assault on Europe’s western approaches depended on a chain of routes and bases stretching from North America and the Azores to Britain and the Channel—convoy lanes, island stepping-stones, airfields, bomber bases and weather intelligence. It also clarifies the logic of Hitler’s Atlantic Wall, designed to defend Europe’s “long sprawling western shore.” Once ashore, however, the map emphasizes Allied advantage: northwestern Europe offered a broad coastal plain with relatively few natural barriers, its invasion obstructed chiefly by man-made defenses. 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Centred on the North Atlantic, the orthographic hemisphere uses red supply lines to show how New York — source of “four-fifths of wartime supply” — was connected by sea to Britain, Russia, North Africa, the Middle East and the Far East. 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The original map challenged Churchill’s \"soft underbelly\" strategy: Harrison saw the Mediterranean approach as a formidable geography of mountains, islands, narrow seas and difficult coasts. By June 1944, after Sicily had fallen, Mussolini had been overthrown and Italy had changed sides, Harrison's sharper title—and message—had softened. Perhaps Harrison had been partly wrong: Churchill had seen not easy terrain, but a weak Italian enemy vulnerable to collapse. Yet the brutal Italian campaign also vindicated Harrison’s warning. 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The unfamiliar perspective displaces Western Europe’s usual centrality: Britain, France and Germany lie beyond a landmass framed by Scandinavia, the Baltic, the Black Sea and North Africa. It makes Germany’s position legible as a fortress pressed from east and west, but also exposes the geographic openness of Eastern Europe. With the Red Army advancing in June 1944, the same plains that had channelled earlier invasions of Russia now carried Soviet power westward. 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The orthographic view centers Eurasia and Africa as the decisive landmass, while the text treats German geopolitics and Haushofer’s world-conquest dreams as inflated, pseudo-geographical fantasy. Harrison argues that Germany mistook bulk for power: Russia—the Heartland—was threatening but underdeveloped, vulnerable to air and Arctic approaches, and too vast to seize. Allied strategy, by contrast, succeeded by closing on the enemy from vital geographical points rather than breaking outward from a supposed center. 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Its relief and key to railways, highways, pipelines and oilfields explain why Asia Minor, the Caucasus, Iran, Iraq, Egypt and India mattered: they offered oil, communications and the imagined junction of German and Japanese power. Harrison credits Britain’s “experienced geographical sense” in committing scarce military resources to the region early in the war. 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Harrison’s perspective draws attention to the Caucasus, Black Sea, Caspian, Iran and Central Asia, where oil, railways, population and imperial ambition converged. The population inset and transport legend reinforce the point: Russia’s strength and vulnerability alike lay in its vast distances, resources and communications. Reissued in June 1944, after Germany’s drive toward the Caucasus oilfields had failed at Stalingrad and Rommel’s advance toward Egypt and the Middle East had been stopped at El Alamein, the map presents southern Russia not as a remote margin, but as a crucial wartime theatre.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934518243675,"sku":"P-8-006755","price":85.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006755a_f904ce38-f2bc-4a8a-b1ae-fd702caa227b.jpg?v=1778784365"},{"product_id":"china-from-the-east-persuasive-map-world-war-2-richard-edes-harrison-1944-p-8-006756","title":"China from the East—Persuasive map—World War 2—Richard Edes Harrison 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'China from the East'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHarrison’s map, originally issued in 1941, highlights China’s central wartime problem: not territory, but access. Seen from the east, it emphasizes China’s restricted access to the sea, with many outlets blocked, threatened, or occupied by Japan, leaving Free China dependent on tenuous inland and frontier communications. Harrison picks out in blue the fragile network of roads, rivers, railways and smuggling ports linking the coast and outer supply routes to the Chinese interior. The inset showing the wartime migration of Chinese universities underscores China’s resilience under invasion. 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Harrison’s key point is that the most direct U.S.–Japan route is not across the central Pacific, but north through Dutch Harbor and the Aleutians. Pearl Harbor becomes a flank position, Truk its Japanese counterpart, while Japan’s island empire appears as an elaborate defensive grid running through the Ryukyus, Philippines, East Indies, Marianas, Carolines and Marshalls. 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The perspective makes clear why the Solomons, New Guinea, the Carolines, Marshalls, Marianas and Truk mattered: they were not isolated island names but links in Japan’s outer defensive system and in the Allied line of advance. Harrison also emphasizes the sobering distances involved; Japan still lies on the far horizon. 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The captions sharpen the lesson: American isolation is “more seeming than real,” Iceland is the North Atlantic “kingpin,” Alaska a “causeway to the World Island,” and Asia both “cradle of civilization” and “grave of conquest.” The map trains a wartime public to distrust habitual Mercator-centred geography and to think strategically from multiple perspectives.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934518538587,"sku":"P-8-006763","price":115.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006763a.jpg?v=1778179198"},{"product_id":"arctic-arena-persuasive-map-world-war-2-richard-edes-harrison-fortune-1944-p-8-006762","title":"Arctic Arena—Persuasive map—World War 2—Richard Edes Harrison—Fortune 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Arctic Arena'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis reduced-sized edition of a map first published in July 1942 presents the polar north as a newly recognized center of air-age geography. 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Though fighting stretched from Russia and the Middle East to China and the Pacific, Harrison argues that four-fifths of the war’s supply moved through the Atlantic system. The map’s orthographic projection makes this oceanic network legible, linking New York, Britain, the Arctic route to Russia, the Mediterranean, Africa, India and China. Harrison emphasizes three bottlenecks: the Greenland-Iceland-Scotland passage, the South Atlantic routes around Brazil and Africa, and the Caribbean approaches to Panama and the Gulf oil ports. 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Centered on the North Pole, the map overturns Mercator assumptions of American distance and safety, showing North America, Europe and Asia linked most directly across the Arctic. Harrison’s message was both wartime and prophetic. In the age of aircraft, oceans no longer guaranteed security; attack, supply and commerce could pass through the polar north. 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The Soviet Union was still formally neutral toward Japan in June 1944, but geography made its threat impossible to ignore. From Siberia and Manchuria, the Japanese home islands appear close, exposed and lacking the oceanic shield suggested by conventional maps; conversely, Vladivostok and the Maritime Provinces appear vulnerable from Manchuria. 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Here the world is organized around General Motors’ industrial footprint. Spheres mark the locations of GM manufacturing and assembly plants and foreign warehouses, each sphere proportional to the “normal” number of workers employed at that facility; operations in which GM held under 50 percent were excluded. The result makes North America—especially Michigan and the industrial Midwest—visually dominant, while Europe, Latin America, Asia and Australia appear as extensions of a global production network. 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The title is pointed: the Biblical site of Armageddon is marked, while arrows and labels trace failed and possible future Axis drives toward Suez, Mosul, Basra, Abadan and the Caucasus. The map anticipates the German push toward Stalingrad and Baku. Harrison’s point, however, is not Axis inevitability but geographic difficulty. Turkey’s straits and mountains, long rail routes, exposed pipelines, oilfields, deserts and Allied positions made reaching the oil a formidable problem; extracting and moving it to Europe would be harder still. 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Drawn from an oblique, almost aerial perspective, it enlarges San Juan and orients the island toward the Atlantic approaches, Virgin Islands, Mona Passage and Caribbean sea lanes. Harrison’s purpose is to make Puerto Rico legible as a strategic American outpost at the threshold of war: a compact island whose harbours, airfields, roads, mountains and neighbouring passages gave it outsized importance in hemispheric defence. The map’s dramatic shading and inset of San Juan turn geography into argument, showing why this U.S. possession mattered for naval protection, air power, and control of the Caribbean routes into the Panama Canal and Atlantic.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934518899035,"sku":"P-8-006768","price":115.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006768a.jpg?v=1778179199"},{"product_id":"poland-a-military-autopsy-world-war-2-persuasive-map-richard-edes-harrison-1939-p-8-006770","title":"Poland—A Military Autopsy—World War 2—persuasive map—Richard Edes Harrison 1939","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Poland—A Military Autopsy'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRichard Edes Harrison’s Poland: A Military Autopsy, published in Fortune shortly after the German and Soviet destruction of Poland, is among the earliest of Harrison’s celebrated wartime analytical maps. Combining dramatic relief cartography with sequential campaign diagrams, it traces the collapse of the Polish state between 1 and 29 September 1939, from the initial German assault to the Soviet invasion and final partition. The accompanying text presents the campaign as a ruthless demonstration of mechanised warfare and strategic encirclement, arguing that Poland’s geography and exposed frontiers made defence almost impossible. Particularly striking—and historically chilling—is the final speculative map proposing future territorial rearrangements, including a naively-labelled possible “Jewish Reservation?”, reflecting contemporary uncertainty and ignorance regarding Nazi intentions before the Holocaust became fully understood. 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Paired with Vilhjalmur Stefansson’s article “Arctic Supply Line,” the map shows air, sea, rail and river routes converging on Alaska, Siberia, Greenland and the Canadian north. Its orthographic projection makes the Arctic a central theatre rather than a frozen edge, while the legend marks Allied industrial areas, Axis-controlled zones, fighting fronts, air routes, sea routes and ice limits. 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Countries are coloured by political alignment, so information routes become geopolitical lines of vulnerability and influence. The inset, “The World from a German Broadcaster’s Switchboard,” makes propaganda itself part of the network. Harrison’s message is that neutrality did not mean insulation: cables could be cut, radio beams jammed, news censored and communications weaponised. 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Issued immediately after Pearl Harbor, this striking hemispheric view turns the Pacific from a remote void into America’s western front. Based on a photographed five-foot globe and viewed from high above Tokyo, Harrison abandons familiar north-up\/Mercator habits to show great-circle routes, naval bases, air distances and the strategic nearness of San Francisco, Manila, Singapore, Australia and Siberia. The accompanying text explains why Japan’s attack had seemed “least expected”: Americans had misunderstood both Pacific geography and their own slow hardening of opinion, traced in Elmo Roper survey data from Manchuria to the Axis pact. 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The text stresses two facts: the republic’s inaccessible Andean plateau could serve as a natural fortress in South America, and its tin, then vital to U.S. supply, was “our hedge” against a Pacific war. Fortune notes Bolivia’s poverty, Indian majority, divided highland and lowland worlds, recent Chaco War, tin barons and renewed Good Neighbor attention, including loans and a Texas smelter for Bolivian concentrates. Harrison’s oblique relief map makes the argument visually, turning the Altiplano into a rampart above Chile, Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. 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Harrison’s oblique, colour relief view makes China legible as a wartime theatre rather than a remote abstraction. Looking westward from its Pacific approaches, he shows the coastal zones under Japanese occupation, the rivers, mountains and interior routes by which China’s resistance survived, and the precarious supply lines entering through Burma, the USSR and southern ports. The inset on university migration underlines that the war had displaced not only armies but China’s intellectual life. Harrison’s message is strategic and moral: geography explains China’s endurance. 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Published with “The Great Oil Deals,” this vivid post-war prospect turns the Near East into the new energy pivot of the American century. Harrison’s oblique relief view links Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Bahrain, Palestine, Syria, Egypt and Turkey through concessions, pipelines, refineries, tanker routes and projected lines to the Mediterranean. Insets compare world production and reserves, making clear that Middle Eastern petroleum was still underproduced but possessed immense latent power. The map’s colour blocks expose corporate and imperial claims—ARAMCO, Iraq Petroleum, Anglo-Iranian, Kuwait Oil and others—cutting across political borders. 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Drawn in May 1941 and published in Fortune that July, just as Germany’s invasion transformed the USSR into the central theatre of war, the map emphasizes the Caucasus, Black Sea, Caspian, Iran and Central Asia. Its population inset and transport legend make clear that Soviet power depended on vast distances, oil, railways, industrial centres and internal communications. 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Colour lithographic double-page pictorial relief map of New England and adjoining Canada, with inset globe locating the region on the Atlantic seaboard. Harrison turns the familiar Yankee homeland into an unfamiliar prospect, stressing connections rather than boundaries: old ports, industrial valleys, rail links to New York, Canadian hinterlands, lakes, mountains, timber, waterpower and tourism. The accompanying text warns against the easy regional stereotype. New England is “more cohesive than the South or the Middle West,” yet “a place of extraordinary diversity,” where Connecticut alone means brass, insurance, tobacco, appliances and “widgets.” Harrison’s message is that geography explains character only by complicating it: the Yankee world is maritime, industrial, rural, urban, cosmopolitan, and decidedly resistant to simplification.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52983563452763,"sku":"P-8-006786","price":130.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006786a.jpg?v=1778784369"},{"product_id":"the-middle-east-world-war-2-regional-map-richard-edes-harrison-fortune-1942-p-8-006787","title":"The Middle East—World War 2 regional map—Richard Edes Harrison—Fortune 1942","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'The Middle East'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA colour-printed double-page map from Fortune’s wartime survey of Middle Eastern power politics, drawn by Richard Edes Harrison for Fortune Magazine. Unlike Harrison’s more dramatic “Air Age” globular views, this is deliberately sober: a conventional regional map, with relief, communications, cultivation, desert and neutral frontiers used to explain the area as the essential hinge between Mediterranean, Red Sea, Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean. The accompanying argument is geopolitical rather than decorative: Britain’s 1918 settlement, Axis ambitions, oil, Suez, Arabia, Iran and India all depend on command of this crossroads. A good, readable wartime Harrison, less theatrical than the famous orthographic maps but still very much a Fortune strategic map. 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Stanley Baldwin’s warning drives it home: “One of the weaknesses of democracy, a system I am trying to make the best of, is that, until it is right up against it, it will never face the truth.” The threat pose today by Russia gives the sheet renewed topical force: see danger early, and convert wealth, shipping and resolve into defence before sacrifice becomes unavoidable.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52983563649371,"sku":"P-8-006789","price":180.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006789a.jpg?v=1778784369"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/fr\/collections\/harrison-richard-edes.oembed?page=2","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}