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WOOS/42
- Record Id:
- 040-003370473
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002225695
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100041938343.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WOOS/42
- Title:
-
'St. Helena. Colonial Survey Sec[tion] R.E.' - War Office ledger.
- Scope & Content:
- Plane table sheets and name lists produced by a survey undertaken in 1903 by Sapper H.H. Evans, Corporal J. Lynch and Lieutenant F.B. Legh.
- Collection Area:
- Map Collections
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002225695
036-002897752
040-003370473 - Is part of:
- WOA : War Office Archive: cartographic and topographic source material
WOOS : War Office 'Original Surveys'
WOOS/42 : 'St. Helena. Colonial Survey Sec[tion] R.E.' - War Office ledger. - Contains:
- WOOS/42/1 : Plane table sheets.
WOOS/42/2 : Name lists.
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- 032-002225695[0003]/036-002897752[0023]/040-003370473
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: WOA
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 8 map sheets with 9 folios and a wrapper
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1903
- End Date:
- 1903
- Date Range:
- 1903
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Custodial History:
- Held by Ordnance Survey from 1903 to 1931, when it was transferred to the War Office.
- Former External References:
- Original Surveys. St Helena.
- Administrative Context:
- The material was used for the compilation of IDWO no. 1853, printed by Ordnance Survey in 1904. Subsequent states of the map were printed in 1929, 1936, 1941 and 1959.
- Material Type:
- Maps and Plans
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- 'Ledger of observations, instructions, calculations, etc. in Geod[etic] Lib[rary] June '74.' - War Office ledger.
- Names:
- Evans, H. H., military surveyor, fl 1903
Legh, Frank Bertram, army officer, 1881-1966
Lynch, John, military surveyor, d 1939 - Places:
- St Helena, South Atlantic Ocean