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West Indies. 'Map showng Returns, Lights and Lighthouses, British [Colonies]'. Key...
Catalogue reference: FO 925/1902
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- FO 925/1902
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1850
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Description (What the record is about)
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West Indies. 'Map showng Returns, Lights and Lighthouses, British [Colonies]'. Key to signs used. Scale: 1 inch to about 160 miles. Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 1 August 1850. Number 656. Map shows lights in Florida, Louisiana, British Honduras, Colombia, Venezuela, British Guiana and West Indies. By Standidge and Co, Lithographers, Old Jewry, London.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- 35 cm x 37 cm
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- Lithographed, coloured
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- International
- Maps and plans
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 3006
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3818466/
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FO 925
Foreign Office: Library: Maps and Plans
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