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The Political Subdivision of the Polish Territory Before the War, and its Linguistic Areas
See the right lower margin, in script: “Washington, October 8th, 1918.” From the President Woodrow Wilson papers. Using boundaries of the pre-partitioned Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to represent “Poland,”as well as early 20th century Russian guberniya boundaries, the map displays percentage of “Poles,” Ruthenians,” White Ruthenians,” and “Lithunians” [sic].
