Japanese Map of Notable Aviation Events, 1930
"World Air Routes"
Color-printed map, 1930, published by Osaka Mainichi Shimbun, showing the world (on a Mollweide projection, allowing Japan to be the visual focus) highlighting, with images, the flight of the Graf Zeppelin, Lindbergh's "Spirit of Saint Louis", the US Army's circumnavigation of the world, an Italian airship to the North Pole and more, also designed as a gameboard for the 'sugoroku' boardgame with the geographical and historical photographs surrounding the map acting as game positions (starting from 1.大阪(Osaka) and ending at 52. 東京 (Tokyo), on thin white paper
Sheet 30 1/4 x 42 1/4 inches
