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Untitled [View of the World from Ninth Avenue]

Title:
Untitled [View of the World from Ninth Avenue]
Alternate Title:
View of the World from Ninth Avenue
Collection:
Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
Creator:
Steinberg, Saul
Date:
1976
Posted Date:
2017-04-14
ID Number:
1387.01
Collection Number:
8548
File Name:
PJM_1387_01.jpg
Style/Period:
1960 - Present
Subject:
New York City
Satirical
Unusual Projection
Ethnocentrism
Measurement:
29 x 21 (centimeters, height x width)
Notes:
This satirical commentary on the self-centeredness of New Yorkers is now so well known as to need no explanation. For another take on exactly the same point published 40 years earlier, see ID #1254, Wallingford, A New Yorker's Idea of the United States of America.

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Source:
The New Yorker, March 29, 1976, cover.
Cite As:
P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography, #8548. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Archival Collection:
P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography
Format:
Image
Rights:
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