Covers the old city of Lanchow bounded by the outer city walls.Shows principal roads and the inner and outer city walls. Names of streets are given in Chinese with Wade-Giles romanisations. Principal buildings are given in Chinese with English translations. A list in the margin provides names for...
'Route from Peking [北京] to Gangtok (India) via Lhasa [拉薩] & return journey from Bhamo (Burma).' - War Office ledger. 2 journeys undertaken by Brigadier General George Pereira 1921-23.
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Fair drawn copies done in the War Office (M.I.4) from Pereira's originals, with accompanying notes. The journeys traverse the following provinces: Chihli (直隸), Shansi (山西), Shensi (陕西), Honan (河南), Szechwan (四川), Kansu (甘肅), Yunnan (雲南) and Tibet (西藏), and Hainan (海南) Island. The map sheets show ...
Shows the routes of aerial, underground, and submarine electric power cables on 2 copies of the same base map. The base map is dated 1924; the power lines were added in 1926.
Kowloon Canton Railway (British Section) Plan of Main Line
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Comprises a plan with a gradient profile. Gives distances in miles, gradients as fractions, and shows numbered cuttings, tunnels and bridges, and station names. Includes two tables providing technical data on cuttings and tunnels, and bridges. This section of the line runs from the terminus at Ts...
Hong Kong – Kowloon 1:10,000 plan. (Re-adjustment of grid lines).
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The maps relate to the built-up areas along the northern margin of Hong Kong Island, and the Kowloon Peninsula south of Mong Kok.The material was produced to illustrate a possible gridding error on a new map. The scale statement applies to the 2 manuscript sheets.
The western part of the boundary between the Hong Kong Leased Territory and the adjacent part of China.
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Two copies of a map showing the alignment of the boundary, which follows the High Water mark, from Kak Tin (1 mile upstream from the present day Huanggang border crossing) westwards to Shan Shek Ha (a distance of 13 miles). The Chinese side of this border is now part of the city of Shenzhen.
Map of Hill District Hong Kong surveyed by the Crown Lands & Survey Office. Public Works Department. 1926
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One map in two sheets covering the area between Victoria Peak, Mount Kellett and Wanchai Gap on Hong Kong Island. Spot heights have been added in red ink.
The ten sheets cover the northern margin of Hong Kong Island from Kennedy Town eastwards to Causeway Bay, and southwards to Magazine Gap. Spot heights have been added in red ink.