Place: Calcutta, India / Level: [40] File - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/X/14745
Title:: Philips' Travelling Maps - India
Scope & Content:: A topographical and political map of India, Burma and Straits Settlements at a scale of 1:5,000,000 on two sheets. The first sheet is India (North Sheet) and includes two inset maps in the top right corner: one a street plan of Calcutta at a scale of approximately 1:50,688, and the other showing ...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:: 2 folded sheets in one binding

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/X/14751
Title:: A Collection of Maps of India, Adjacent Countries and the Indian Ocean, previously owned by Enoch Powell, MP
Scope & Content:: This collection has 14 sheets, some of which are composites of individual sheets pasted to form contiguous areas of India and adjacent countries. The most recent printed date on the maps is 1946, the oldest is 1923. The manuscript additions on some maps are undated. The envelope associated with t...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 14 sheets and 1 envelope

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/X/14784
Title:: 'Map of Calcutta' published under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
Scope & Content:: A street map of Calcutta, at a scale of approximately 1:21,120, published in London by George Cox under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1 January 1852. The map is not oriented to North. A list of 27 public buildings, churches and chapels is referenced bel...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1852
Extent:: 1 sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 430/75
Title:: Curzon Collection: Curzon's first year as Viceroy
Scope & Content:: Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains informal snapshots and work by professional photographers, showing views of various interiors, viceregal functions and events, together with landscape views of: Bombay, Lucknow, Calcutta, Barakpur, Mashobra, Bhopal, Benares, Narkanda, Delhi, Gwalior, Bri...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1898-1900
Extent:: 1 black full-leather, unpublished album (29 pages) containing 99 photographic prints pasted into volume (and one loose) with handwritten captions beneath

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