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Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/57/1
Title:: Plan of Existing and Proposed Roads.
Scope & Content:: Portrays hydrology, relief by form lines, roads and tracks, proposed roads, settlements, place names and engineering structures, and includes engineering notes. Detail extends approximately 1 mile from the road.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1932
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/57/2
Title:: Profile of Proposed Road from Baro Cala to Mattoh
Scope & Content:: Relief profile of proposed road running approximately 6o miles westwards from Baro Cala to Mattoh. Portrays elevations, place names and the location of proposed engineering structures. Horizontal scale 1:63,360.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1932
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/57/3
Title:: 'Plan of Various Traverses Made in Western Abyssinia. Surveyed by Mr Diespecker in 1932.'
Scope & Content:: Tracing depicting compass traverses by Mr Diespecker of Gellatly, Hankey and Co Ltd on behalf of the Ethiopian Motor Transport Co Ltd. Corrects and extends ABY/57/1. Portrays hydrology, relief by form lines, hachures rock drawings and spot heights, roads and paths, settlements and place names, ...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1932
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/57/4
Title:: Tables of Altitudes, Addis Ababa to Gore
Scope & Content:: Two tables of altitudes on the main road from Addis Ababa to Gore, together with a covering letter. Carbon copy of an original sent from the British Consulate, Gore to the Sudan Survey Department.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1934
Extent:: 3 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/60
Title:: Lake Tana Survey and List of Surrounding Churches. Created by 'The J.G. White Engineering Corporation'
Scope & Content:: Map sheets with graphic index covering Lake Tana in north-western Abyssinia; includes associated list of churches. Produced as part of a survey for a proposed dam.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1933-34
Extent:: 11 map sheets and 22 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/60/1
Title:: 'Survey of Lake Tana.' - War Office ledger
Scope & Content:: Reproductions of 6 original sheets covering Lake Tana (except the centre) and the surrounding land area to approximately 2 miles from the shore. Portrays hydrology, relief by contours and spot heights, roads, churches and place names.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1933-1934
Extent:: 10 map sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/60/2
Title:: 'General Map as Index.' - War Office ledger
Scope & Content:: Graphic index portraying the map sheets at ABY/60/1, although there are some minor inconsistencies in sheet limits. Portrays hydrology, roads, churches, place names and sheetlines, and includes tables of lake extent for selected lake surface elevations.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1933-1934
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/60/3
Title:: List of Churches Located Near Lake Tsana.
Scope & Content:: Numbered list of churches cross-referenced to the map sheets at ABY/60/1 and ABY/60/2. Includes the elevation of each church together with details of its structural condition, internal decoration and accessibility at times of high lake levels. The title page bears the statements 'Appendix II' a...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1934
Extent:: 22 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/61
Title:: 'General map around & West of Lake Tana, showing proposed highways.' - War Office ledger
Scope & Content:: Reproductions of an original single-sheet map. Covers routes between Lake Tana in north-western Abyssinia and Roseires 200 miles westwards in eastern Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Portrays hydrology, relief by hachures and form lines, proposed roads, existing roads and tracks, telephone lines, settlemen...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: between 1927-1934
Extent:: 2 map sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/62
Title:: 'Adis Ababa to Gezan in Sudan.' Created by 'Capt. Taylor RA and [Capt.] Dunlop 1935' - War Office ledger
Scope & Content:: Covers a 600-mile journey from Addis Ababa in central Abyssinia westwards along the main caravan route to Gezan in south-eastern Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The spelling 'Adis Ababa' is used in the War Office ledger; the spellings 'Addis Ababa' and 'Adis Abeba' are used on the maps. Dunlop's rank ap...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1931-1935
Extent:: 8 map sheets and 4 folios

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