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Description
368 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, 41 cm. Preface by Herbert Bayer, Aspen, 1953. "Rand McNally and Company printed pages 1-72, 81-168 as well as the Index and assembled and bound the book."--Preface, page 4. "Why Container Corporation publishes an atlas. In 1936 Container Corporation published an atlas which had some unusual features. It was enthusiastically received at the time ... Because of the advent of World War II, great political, social, and economic changes have taken place ... Consequently, a new atlas at this time seems appropriate."--Foreword, page 5. 2200 diagrams, graphs, charts and maps. Includes index (pages 282-368).
ISBN
Bayer_WorldGeographicAtlasACompositeOfAMansEnvironment.pdf
Publication Date
1953
Imprint / Year
Chicago : Privately Printed for Container Corp. of America, 1953.
Publisher
Container Corp. of America
City
Chicago
Keywords
slipcases; hardcover books; color prints (prints); graphic design; regional atlases; fire insurance maps; statistical atlases; national atlases; historical atlases; map views; information
Disciplines
Book and Paper | Graphic Design
RISD Fleet Library Catalog Record
Recommended Citation
Bayer, Herbert; Rand McNally and Company; Container Corporation of America; Collections, Special; and Library, Fleet, "World Geographic Atlas : a composite of man's environment" (1953). Graphic Design. 12.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_books_graphicdesign/12