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1 item (originally enclosed in a despatch form John Cameron, British Consul, Danzig,...
Catalogue reference: MFQ 1/568
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This record is about the 1 item (originally enclosed in a despatch form John Cameron, British Consul, Danzig,... dating from 1931 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MFQ 1/568
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1931
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Description (What the record is about)
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1 item (originally enclosed in a despatch form John Cameron, British Consul, Danzig, 27 August 1931) extracted from FO 371/15578. Central and Eastern Europe. 'Eulitz-Verkehrskarte Nr. 7': 2 maps, showing transport routes, printed on both sides of a single sheet. Face: 'Eulitz-Verkehrskarte von Deutsch-Polen mit den polnischen Stationsnamen': map of the area between Stolp (now Slupsk, Poland), Kaunas (Lithuania), Uzhhorod (now in Ukraine) and Brno (now in Czech Republic), marking Polish [railway] station names. Scale: 1:1,000,000 Printed by H F Jütte, Leipzig; taken from Dr W Koch and C Opitz, Eisenbahn- und Verkehrsatlas von Europa (J J Arnd, Leipzig); published by Oskar Eulitz, Stolp, Pomerania. Dorse: 'Eulitz-Verkehrskarte von Nordostdeutschland, Danzig und dem Weichsel-Korridor': map of the area between Bornholm (Denmark), Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia), Warsaw (Poland) and Frankfurt-an-der-Oder (Germany). Reference table to both sides. Scale: 1:600,000. Inset on Dorse: map of the Memel territory (now mainly in Lithuania); scale: 1:800,000. MS additions, coloured, on both sides, illustrating a proposal to shift the 'Polish Corridor' from Danzig (now Gdansk) to the Gulf of Courland.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- German
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 62.5 cm x 93 cm
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 159.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3983589/
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