Allegorical , satirical , and comic or serio - comic single-valued function were one of the most popular way of hand out political propaganda leading up to the Second World War . With countries depicted as human figures , fauna , or even monsters , these maps attempted to represent more than just geographics — and in doing so , exposed the political biases and sometimes even bigotry of the author .
Nowadays , it ’s strange to see states and the great unwashed caricatured using mapmaking according to current political and international circumstances — particularly in such a sarcastic , even discommode way . The following collection of maps will give you an musical theme about how these artists used geographical as a class of propaganda , sometimes to vex ends .
1570: Map of Europe in the shape of a queen.
Source : Wikimedia Commons
Allegorical map of the Baltic Sea in the form of Charon, the ferryman of Hades, 1701.
Source : National Library of Sweden
America as the land of plenty, 1782.
generator : Library of Congress
Britannia, hand-colored and engraved caricature map of Britain in the guise of an old woman seated on a sea creature, 1791.
origin : Bonhmas
Comic map of the seat of war, 1854.
Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France
European states, 1864.
Europe’s comic map dedicated to the youth, 1867.
Source : Map - Fair
The Porcineograph, 1876, a map of the United States in the shape of a pig, surrounded by pigs representing the different states, with notations of state foods.
Serio-comic war map for the year 1877.
Animal Europe: comic physiology of Europe, 1882.
reservoir : Bibliotheek van de Universiteit van Amsterdam
Map of Europe in 1887.
1888: Illustrated political chart of American politics and the Tapeworm Party, showing James G. Blaine as the head of a tapeworm made up of various government scandals over a map of the United States.
Angling in troubled waters, a serio-comic map of Europe, 1899
Japanese allegorical map representing the Far East, c1900.
John Bull and his friends: a serio-comic map of Europe, 1900
Source : Centre Excursionista de Catalunya
Map of Europe at the outbreak of the first World War, 1914
Hark! Hark! The dogs do bark! 1914
Warmonger Prussia as an octopus whose tentacles are reaching into Europe, 1914
The Great European War, from A Humorous Atlas of the World (Japan 1914).
And two incentive map so as to fix the tension :
Human map of the U.S.A., c1925.
A map of the fortified country of man’s heart.
beginning : Glamour clip , 1948 . april .
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