Map China Contiguous Lands (1 results)

Printed colour map on a single newspaper leaf 53 x 40.7 cm; 59.8 x 45 cm (sheet), inset text box, marginal browning and at the folds, but remarkably bright, in very good condition. WWII map of China, showing most of China, Indo-China, Thailand and Korea, with territory captured and controlled by Japan shaded in orange and red, published by the Chicago Daily Tribune barely six weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbour. The text on the map reads "Since 1937 China has been at war with Japan. Lacking many essentials of war, the Chinese nevertheless, have managed to maintain a front against the aggressors. China's principal life line is the Burma road (shown on the map), which starts at Lashio, Burma, and extends to Kunming, Yunnan province, where it links with connections to Chunking, the present Chinese capital". Based on a Rand McNally map, the Tribune briskly got to work issuing maps for readers showing the beginnings of the war with Japan. Later maps were also published for sale separately, but remarkably few have survived. "? the historic Chicago Tribune was an innovator in color inks and printing, but also a pioneer in bringing colorful art in the form of illustrations, photographs, cartoons and advertisements to the average person in an everyday medium." [see The Janet A. Ginsburg Chicago Tribune Collection, Michigan State University Libraries.].