{"product_id":"vintage-pictorial-map-belgian-congo","title":"1951 Belgisch Kongo","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis bright pictorial map by James Thiriar was created with the purpose of promoting travel to the Belgian Congo region, which, from 1908 to 1960, was a colony of Belgium. The image depicts indigenous peoples in their regional costumes, a wide variety of local flora and fauna. The border is formed by African face masks linked one to another.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThiriar took some inspiration from the work of Lucian Boucher, who made posters for Air France. A native of Belgium, Thiriar was wounded in WWI and thereafter did drawings of soldiers at the front which were published in a number of periodicals. He started travelling to the Belgian Congo in 1932 to complete a series of illustrations of the area, and continued working on various such projects there for another twenty years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New World Cartographic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32874704502845,"sku":"11636","price":275.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0390\/9705\/products\/11636a.jpg?v=1736981230","url":"https:\/\/nwcartographic.com\/products\/vintage-pictorial-map-belgian-congo","provider":"New World Cartographic","version":"1.0","type":"link"}