Art, Symbol & Imagination
William Reed’s Hollow-Earth Diagram
The upper half of a globe opens to reveal a second landscape inside the outer shell. The lower half retains the familiar outline of South America. Reed uses the cutaway to present his speculative claim of continents, seas and inhabited regions within the Earth.
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Illustrator not identified. "William Reed’s Hollow-Earth Diagram" [editorial title]. In The Phantom of the Poles, William Reed. New York: Walter S. Rockey Company, 1906; complete IAPSOP historical scan, including the author’s portrait and final page 283., 1906, Walter S. Rockey Company. Source scan leaf 24. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0453-0024
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
An illustration from William Reed’s historical hollow-Earth argument. The source’s polar geography and proposed openings are speculative claims, not established geography.
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Illustrator not identified. William Reed’s Hollow-Earth Diagram. The Phantom of the Poles. Scan leaf 24. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0453-0024