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WOMAT/AFR/BEC/3/2
- Record Id:
- 041-003433981
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002225695
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100070985939.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WOMAT/AFR/BEC/3/2
- Title:
-
Bechuanaland Railway
- Scope & Content:
-
A collection of miscellaneous sheets at a variety of scales, reduced from originals of similarly various scales. Sheets portray a selection of hydrology, relief by form lines and hill shading, railways, telegraph lines, roads and tracks, settlements, place names, farm boundaries and land ownership, and include topographical notes.
Earliest date given as contemporary to a sheet reproduced from the original of that at WOMAT/AFR/BEC/3/1; latest date derived from accession stamps.
The original of one sheet is signed 'Charles Metcalfe' and dated '12 May '97'.
One sheet bears the note 'Received with Capetown letter dated ? January '97 No 302.'
- Collection Area:
- Map Collections
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002225695
036-002225925
037-002225954
038-003433240
040-003433643
041-003433981 - Is part of:
- WOA : War Office Archive: cartographic and topographic source material
WOMAT : War Office 'Material'
WOMAT/AFR : 'Material - Africa'.
WOMAT/AFR/BEC : Material. Bechuanaland.
WOMAT/AFR/BEC/3 : 'Surveyed Portion of British Bechuanaland & B[e]ch[uana]l[an]d. Railway.' - War Office ledger.
WOMAT/AFR/BEC/3/2 : Bechuanaland Railway - Hierarchy:
- 032-002225695[0001]/036-002225925[0001]/037-002225954[0004]/038-003433240[0003]/040-003433643[0002]/041-003433981
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: WOA
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 8 map sheets
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1893
- End Date:
- 1900
- Date Range:
- 1894?-1900
- Era:
- CE
- Scale:
- Scales differ
- Scale Designator:
- Horizontal
- Coordinates (Decimal):
- 23.4500,-28.8167,28.8500,-19.0000
- Coordinates (Degree):
- E 23°27’0”-E 28°51’0”/S 19°0’0”-S 28°49’0”
- Orientation:
- Various
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Bromide; 60 x 59cm or smaller
- Material Type:
- Maps and Plans
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Metcalfe, Charles Herbert Theophilus, 6th Baronet, railway engineer, 1853-1928