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WOMAT/AFR/NAT/27
- Record Id:
- 040-003432537
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002225695
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100069831298.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100144155068.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WOMAT/AFR/NAT/27
- Title:
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Jackson's Series Maps with Manuscript Corrections and Additions. Created by 'Mapping Section - Field Intelligence Dep[artmen]t.'
- Scope & Content:
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Eleven map sheets as follows:
- Sheet 36 Part of Zululand West (2 copies, both November 1901, but with different manuscript annotations)
- Sheet 37 Melmoth (1901, with eastward manuscript extension to Indian Ocean)
- Sheet 38 Pomeroy (February 1902)
- Sheet 38a Petermaritzburg E[ast]. (No date; cover and north-west corner of map lost)
- Sheet 39 Nqutu (2 editions: September 1901 and September 16 1901)
- Sheet 39a Dundee (2 copies, both February 1902, but with different manuscript annotations)
- Sheet 40 Utrecht-Vryheid (1901)
- Sheet 42 Wakkerstroom (April 1901)
Sheets folded in covers bearing the title 'Transvaal (Major Jackson's Series)', although many cover Natal. Sheets portray hydrology, relief by occasional spot heights and form lines, roads and tracks, railways, telegraph and telephone lines, farm boundaries and place names. Compiled by the Field Intelligence Department using material from the offices of the surveyors-general of Transvaal and Natal under the direction of Major H.M. Jackson R.E. Some sheets signed by Lieutenant P.A. Fynney.
Some covers (21 x 12cm or smaller) bear manuscript notes explaining that the sheets accompany reports by Lieutenant Colonel J.A. Ferrier, Captain S. Lloyd Owen and Lieutenant P.A. Fynney. Printed by the Government Printing Works, Pretoria. These reports bear the reference F/3544.
Unannotated copies of the Jackson Maps series are filed at Maps 67075.(88.), although holdings are not complete.
- Collection Area:
- Map Collections
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002225695
036-002225925
037-002225954
038-003421216
040-003432537 - Is part of:
- WOA : War Office Archive: cartographic and topographic source material
WOMAT : War Office 'Material'
WOMAT/AFR : 'Material - Africa'.
WOMAT/AFR/NAT : Material. Natal.
WOMAT/AFR/NAT/27 : Jackson's Series Maps with Manuscript Corrections and Additions. Created by 'Mapping Section - Field Intelligence… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002225695[0001]/036-002225925[0001]/037-002225954[0010]/038-003421216[0020]/040-003432537
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: WOA
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
11 map sheets
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1901
- End Date:
- 1904
- Date Range:
- 1901-1904
- Era:
- CE
- Scale:
- Scale 1:148,752
- Scale Designator:
- Horizontal
- Coordinates (Decimal):
- 29.3333,-29.6667,32.5000,-27.1667
- Coordinates (Degree):
- E 29°20’0”-E 32°30’0”/S 27°10’0”-S 29°40’0”
- Orientation:
- North
- Access:
- Unavailable as awaiting conservation
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Printed, with manuscript additions in coloured ink and pencil; 51 x 78cm or smaller
- Material Type:
- Maps and Plans
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Ferrier, James Archibald, army officer, 1854-1934
Field Intelligence Department, 1899-1901
Fynney, P A, army officer, fl 1903-06
Government Printing Works, South Africa, Pretoria, 1888-
Jackson, Hugh Milbourne, army officer, b 1858
Owen, Sydney Lloyd, army officer, b 1872
Surveyor General, Natal, 1854-
Surveyor-General, Transvaal, 1866- - Places:
- Dundee, Klip River, Natal
Melmoth, Emtonjaneni, Natal
Nqutu, Nqutu, Natal
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
Pomeroy, Klip River, Natal
Transvaal, Transvaal
Utrecht, Utrecht, South African Republic
Vryheid, Vryheid, South African Republic
Wakkerstroom, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Zululand, Natal - Related Material:
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An account of the mapping of Major H.M. Jackson R.E. in southern Africa is given in:
Elri Liebenburg, The "Major Jackson's Transvaal and Natal Series" of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902): A Cartobibliographic Framework, in History of Cartography: International Symposium of the ICA, ed. by Elri Liebenburg, Peter Collier and Zsolt Gyözö Török (? Heidelberg: Springer, 2012)
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- WOMAT/AFR/NAT/21