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4 items extracted from CO 48/515. (1) Map showing telegraph communication with the...
Catalogue reference: MPG 1/923
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- MPG 1/923
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1887
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4 items extracted from CO 48/515. (1) Map showing telegraph communication with the West African coast. Outline map of Africa showing Eastern & South African cables, African Direct Co.'s cables and West African Co.'s cables (with proposed extension), with reference table. MS, coloured, on tracing cloth. Scale: 1 inch to about 430 miles (calculated). (2) Map of Africa, Europe and the Near East showing lines of communication and, in MS, distances between points on the west African coast. Reference table to MS additions. Printed, coloured, with MS additions. Scale: 1 inch to 1000 miles. Published by Waterlow & Sons Ltd, London. (3) Outline map of Africa showing the Eastern, Eastern & South African, Brazilian Submarine & the African Direct Telegraph Companies' systems. The map shows latitude and longitude. Printed, coloured, with MS coloured additions. Reference table to MS additions. Scale: 1 inch to about 430 miles (calculated). Published by Waterlow & Sons Ltd., London. Presented by the African Direct Telegraph Co. Coloured MS additions show distances between points on west African coast. Endorsed: 'Regd 27 Apr 1887.' (4) Outline map of Africa showing telegraph communication with the West African coast. Reference table. Scale: 1 inch to about 430 miles (calculated). Printed at Stanford's Geographical Establishment. (1) 32 cm x 38 cm; (2) 22 cm x 15 cm (slightly irregular); (3) 32 cm x 40 cm; (4) 32 cm x 38 cm.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 3. Africa, ed P A Penfold (London, 1982), entry 45, where scale for (1), (3) and (4) is erroneously given as 1 inch to about 43 miles
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