Canada, Alaska & Greenland Compiled and Drawn in the Cartographic Section of the National Geographic Society for the National Geographic Magazine, Gilbert Grosvenor, Editor. Chamberlin Trimetric Projection, Scale 1:8,000,000 or 126.3 Miles to the Inch.

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Colour printed map of Canada, Alaska & Greenland (87.5 x 67 cm) folding to 22 x 17 cm. Showing principal railways, roads, canals, passes, winter tractor trails, northern limit of wooded country, principal airports, elevations in feet. Inscription in blue ink, "Braloane (Elizabeth)" with line pointing to Braloane, BC. Black ink inscription "Shepherd Bay" with arrow to upper margin. Some additional annotations to map in blue ink. Old fold creases, some toning throughout and browning along folds, with some nicks. "Gilbert Grosvenor was elected president of the National Geographic Society in 1920. During his administration, greatly increased revenues enabled the society to send out numerous expeditions to the North and South poles, into the stratosphere, and to the ocean depths and to conduct a myriad of other investigations." (Britannica). N° de ref. del artículo 59225

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