I've always liked these maps that capture the ground truth for a single point in time. Here's another one I found a while back showing "Everywhere you can go in an Airplane", circa 1918, also with journey times:
(I actually pilfered it for that post from another source, but can't find the original now).
Growing up, we had a World Atlas in the house that was printed in the early 1940s. It had a little leaflet in the back with a card you could send in for an updated set of maps after the war was over.
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(I actually pilfered it for that post from another source, but can't find the original now).
Growing up, we had a World Atlas in the house that was printed in the early 1940s. It had a little leaflet in the back with a card you could send in for an updated set of maps after the war was over.