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Collection Area Map Collections Language English Level [32] Fonds

1. DMO

Reference (shelfmark):
DMO
Title:
'D.M.O. Secret'
Scope & Content:
Reports, memoranda, and correspondence originally held in the office of the Director of Military Intelligence, subsequently Director of Military Operations.
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1871-1938
Extent:
53 volumes, 45 booklets, 13 fascicles, including 126 maps, and 29 photographs.

2. Imago Mundi

Reference (shelfmark):
Imago Mundi
Title:
The Imago Mundi Archives
Scope & Content:
The Catalogue This catalogue was prepared by Stephen Freeth, contract archivist, in the period December 2008 to Autumn 2010. In so doing, he continued the work of an earlier contract archivist, Anna Greening, whose detailed work on the Bagrow papers in 2005-6 had been cut short by illness. The...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish
Date Range:
1939-2010
Extent:
255 orderable units

3. IOR/W

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/W
Title:
Maps from other India Office departments
Scope & Content:
In two sections: W/LPS/A to W/LPS/K - the separate collection of maps formed for reference by the Political and Secret Department in the late nineteenth century (cf Political and Secret Department Memoranda (L/P&S/8) and Library (L/P&S/20); W followed by a volume or file number (e.g. W/...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1850-1947
Extent:
c 1000 items

4. IOR/X

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X
Title:
India Office reference collection of maps
Scope & Content:
The X sequence of India Office maps covers entries in the original 1878 published catalogue (X/1- 4999), maps entered in margins or on interleaves in Catalogue source R, a copy of the 1878 catalogue with room for additions to be added (X/9000-10999), maps subsequently identified in the collection...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
c 70,000 items

5. LIC

Reference (shelfmark):
LIC
Title:
Library Information Centre Tolworth 2003 Closure collection
Scope & Content:
A collection of geodetic and other technical publications and reports arranged into 56 country or regional blocks.
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Modern, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish
Date Range:
1856-2001
Extent:

161 boxes and 2 volumes

6. PER

Reference (shelfmark):
PER
Title:
George Pereira Archive
Scope & Content:
Intelligence reports, notes, maps, correspondence and miscellaneous items created by or belonging to George Edward Pereira, relating to Korea, China, Siberia, Manchuria and Tibet.
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1882-1923
Extent:
11 envelopes and 1 photocopy

7. TRIG

Reference (shelfmark):
TRIG
Title:
War Office/Ministry of Defence Trigonometrical/Geodetic Library Material
Scope & Content:
Survey materials and their derivatives used in the compilation and revision of maps to support the geographical requirements of the United Kingdom government and armed forces. The library primarily comprises survey control items including surveyors' field observations, computations, grid and gra...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1880-2nd half of 20th century
Extent:
77 boxes comprising survey observation books, maps, foolscap folios and technical reports

8. WOA

Reference (shelfmark):
WOA
Title:
War Office Archive: cartographic and topographic source material
Scope & Content:
Source material used for making and revising maps, or created in the course of map production. Supporting the topographical intelligence requirements of the United Kingdom government and armed forces, the archive primarily comprises cartographic items including sketch maps done by intelligence of...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1880-1955
Extent:
400 map trays and 150 boxes of foolscap pages, approximately