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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/62/1/1
Title:: Bromides
Scope & Content:: Base maps are reproductions of WOMAT/AFR/ABY/40/1 sheets 11, 12, 13, 18 and 19 and portray hydrology, relief by form lines, hachures and spot heights, vegetation, railways, roads and tracks, telegraphs, settlements, significant buildings, place names and internal and international boundaries, an...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1935
Extent:: 5 map sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/62/1/2
Title:: Tracing
Scope & Content:: Base map is a tracing of part of an original survey by Enrico Cerulli in 1928 and portrays hydrology, relief by form lines and spot heights, the expedition route, settlements and significant buildings; also includes place names and topographical notes in Italian. Compass traverse added in manu...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 1935
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/62/2
Title:: 'Classification of Towns & Villages.'
Scope & Content:: Plotted on to lithographed base map Geographic Section, General Staff, No. 2871, Sheet North C.36 37/B.36 37 titled 'Abyssinia', 2nd Edition, 1931 (a copy is filed at Maps MOD GSGS 2871). Portrays hydrology, relief by spot heights and gradient tints, railways, roads and tracks, telegraph lines, ...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1931-1935
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/62/3
Title:: 'Dadesa River (Abyssinia)'
Scope & Content:: Time and compass traverse along the Dadesa River in western Abyssinia from a point near Nekemti and extending 100 miles north-westwards to the confluence with the Abbai River. Portrays hydrology, relief by form lines, vegetation, roads and tracks and place names, and includes topographical and c...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1935
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/62/4/2
Title:: Typescript copy of original list, with covering note
Scope & Content:: Covering note reads 'Copy sent to Director of Surveys Khartoum in October 1935 with request for closing value for Qezan.' Signed by '[illegible letter]B.'
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1935
Extent:: 3 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/67
Title:: 'Amba Alagi'. Created by 'Lt. Papino - of 1st. Geogr[afico]. Mil[itare].' - War Office ledger
Scope & Content:: Bromide copies of manuscript originals. Sheets numbered 1 (South) and 2 (North). Covers an area of approximately 5 miles radius around Amba Alagi in northern Abyssinia. Portrays hydrology, relief by spot heights, form lines and hachures, roads and tracks, settlements and place names, and include...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: between 1941-1944
Extent:: 2 map sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/BCA/1
Title:: 'British Central Africa. (sheet "h") Blantyre district. I[ntelligence] D[ivision War Office] No 1092 (h) with MS. addns. & corrns.' - War Office ledger
Scope & Content:: Produced as part of a projected eight-sheet series (a to h) of British Central Africa; only sheets f and h were published. Covers southern British Central Africa, including the southern part of Lake Chilwa, the Shire River valley and the protectorate capital Zomba. Portrays hydrology, relief b...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1895-1897
Extent:: 1 map sheet

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