Imperial Federation, map of the world showing the extent of the British Empire in 1886

Everything about the design of this elaborately decorated world map glorifies the late-19th-century British Empire. Cartographically it used a Mercator projection centered on the Greenwich Prime Meridian, placing Great Britain just above the map's central focal point. The Gree...

Map

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x633f896s
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map
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normalized
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1886
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English
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05_01_000228
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Boston Public Library
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1
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London
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MacClure & Co.
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