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WOMAT/ADD/89
- Record Id:
- 040-003392983
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002225695
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100054514094.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163063044.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WOMAT/ADD/89
- Title:
-
Legend to Uganda-Congo Boundary Commission maps
- Scope & Content:
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Draft version of legend for map sheets produced by the War Office in 1909 as part of series GSGS 1764 to delimit the Uganda-Congo boundary. Photo-reproduction of an original, with manuscript annotations. Titled 'Reference'.
The recto bears the annotation 'with 86-U'; the verso bears a stamp 'Photographed 22.10.1908'.
The GSGS 1764 sheets along this boundary were reproduced in 1909-1919 as GSGS 2471 and bear a similarly based legend. Filed at Maps MOD GSGS 1764 and Maps MOD 2471 respectively.
- Collection Area:
- Map Collections
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002225695
036-002225925
037-002899450
040-003392983 - Is part of:
- WOA : War Office Archive: cartographic and topographic source material
WOMAT : War Office 'Material'
WOMAT/ADD : Material - Addendum
WOMAT/ADD/89 : Legend to Uganda-Congo Boundary Commission maps - Hierarchy:
- 032-002225695[0001]/036-002225925[0004]/037-002899450[0091]/040-003392983
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: WOA
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 folio
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=WOMAT/ADD/89 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-

- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1907
- End Date:
- 1909
- Date Range:
- 1908?
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Photo-reproduction, with manuscript annotations in coloured ink, pencil and crayon; 21 x 17cm
- Material Type:
- Maps and Plans
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Uganda-Congo Boundary Commission, 1907-1908
- Places:
- Congo, Africa
Uganda, Africa - Related Material:
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Accounts of the survey expeditions are given at:
Report on the Work of the British Section of the Anglo-German-Belgian Boundary Commission, 1911, Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office (1912).
R.G.T. Bright, The Uganda-Congo Boundary Commission: Summary Report, The Geographical Journal, vol. 32, no. 5 (Nov., 1908), pp. 488-493.
R.G.T. Bright, Survey and Exploration in the Ruwenxori and Lake Region, Central Africa, The Geographical Journal, vol. 34, no. 2 (Aug., 1909), pp. 128-153
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- WOOS/14