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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
“the actual picture of the march of civilization, from the mud huts of the ancients thru the monarchistic glamour of the middle ages to the living panorama of life in present day America.”
This “Histomap,” created by John B. Sparks, was first printed by Rand McNally in 1931. (The David Rumsey Map Collection hosts a fully zoomable version here.)
The 1931 Histomap: The entire history of the world distilled into a single map/chart.
(via Slate’s The Vault)
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