Hammond’s Ambassador World Atlas transports the reader back to 1961 through country profiles, exotic pictures, and hundreds of maps. This atlas is a reflection of a society with atomic anxiety, and the obsessive desire to spread their beliefs internationally and even on the moon. Just as an ambassador represents their country abroad, Hammond’s Ambassador World Atlas serves to represent the world in a modern, “scientific” way.
Shayna Webb
Hammond’s Ambassador World Atlas. 2d ed. Maplewood, N.J.: C.S. Hammond and Co., 1961. Print.