This map is scarce - first one we have seen over decades. Ernest Dudley Chase was creator of travel diaries, 22 maps, and greeting cards."A striking Cold War–era world pictorial map designed and drawn by Ernest Dudley Chase of Winchester, Massachusetts, this 1950 pictorial work blends political geography with ideological messaging at the dawn of the United Nations system. Printed in vivid yellow, pink, and black, the map delineates prewar boundaries, major railroads, naval bases, and the emerging “Iron Curtain,” while surrounding the world’s landmasses with illustrations of ships, aircraft, and symbolic vignettes representing the “Four Freedoms”—worship, speech, press, and trial by jury. Chase integrates extensive textual panels explaining the structure of the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty, the Council of Europe, and key wartime conferences from 1941 to 1945, emphasizing the diplomatic foundations of the postwar international order. Insets highlight regions of strategic importance—Turkey, Iraq and Iran, Formosa (Taiwan), Korea, and Burma–Siam–Indochina—reflecting geopolitical flashpoints of the early 1950s. Rarity This is one of Ernest Dudley Chase's rarest pictorial maps. We note examples at Harvard and the Winchester Library." (Ruderman, 2025) https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~375501~90141825:A-Factual-%26-Pictorial-Map--World-Fr?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No&mi=0&trs=156&qvq=q:Formosa;sort:Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No;lc:RUMSEY~8~1#
Ernest Dudley Chase's "A Factual & Pictorial Map: World #Freedom," 1950, blends political geography with ideological messaging at the dawn of the UN system. Includes vignettes on the Four Freedoms — worship, speech, press, trial by jury. Insets highlight regions of strategic importance like #Taiwan.
