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A work, not of the display of quantitative information, but of pure imagination. Visually depicts Andrew Zingg's personal, apocalyptic "inspirational vision" for a transformative change of the Earth's surface and magnetic poles. The map was almost certainly self-published, a vanity map.
No other copy of this map is found anywhere on this planet.
By Andrew Zingg (1868-1954) of Wilton Junction, Iowa. 1939. The online Catalog of Copyright Entries shows that a copyright was granted to Andrew Zingg on January 21, 1939 for a "Map of Future Events".
Zingg's vision is documented in an included two-page typed letter titled: "A New Map of the World (There will be a Cycle Change of this Globe in the Near Future.)" The explanation defines the results of Zingg's hypothesis for imminent change in the earth's magnetic field along with climate changes and massive changes in the earth's landmass that might be expected with extreme tectonic forces.
"We are now living in that age in which a physical change of the Globe will soon occur in which this world will roll (in its orb) to a new point of balance which will swing its axis unto new moorings, the North Pole will be shifted into Siberia east of the Ural Mountains and the South Pole in the South Pacific Ocean."
Contains blue ink hand-stamps referencing Zingg's copyright in 1939. Zingg signed his letter cryptically with "(A - Z - Alpha Omega)". Note: map is much larger that the two typed pages (not to same scale).
PUBLICATION DATE: 1939
GEOGRAPHIC AREA: World
BODY OF WATER: N/A
CONDITION: Very good.
Minor spots bottom left else all clean and bright. Solid.
COLORING: None
ENGRAVER:
SIZE: 26
" x
17 "
ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 0
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