Abstract: Maps of the five regions of North America as published in an American geography book in 1912 and known to have been read by 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Haifa/'Akka while writing Tablets of the Divine Plan.
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Maps of the regions of North America
compiled by John Conkling
published in Complete World GeographyThe Macmillan Company, 1912
A copy of this book was sent to the US NSA by Ahmad Sohrab, who indicated that 'Abdu'l-Bahá had seen and read the book (source: personal email to John Conkling from Roger Dahl, archivist at the US Bahá'í National Center; date unknown). The significance of this is that the five regions into which Abdu'l-Bahá divided North America when writing Tablets of the Divine Plan — Northeastern states, Southern states, Central states, Western states, and Canada/Greenland — parallel the regions of this book. Other than rotating these images and converting them from TIF to JPG, I did no digital editing. See an earlier edition of the entire book at archive.org. [J.W., 2010]
Northeastern States, east half
(this map is missing) |
Northeastern States, west half |
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 large image, 840K
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Southern States, east half |
 medium image, 184K
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 large image, 740K
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Southern States, west half |
 medium image, 164K
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 large image, 684K
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Western States, north half |
 medium image, 204K
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 large image, 816K
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Western States, south half |
 medium image, 192K
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 large image, 848K
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Central States
(right-hand map missing, will post end of Sept 2010) |
 medium image, 200K
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 large image, 840K
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Canada |
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 large image, 832K
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