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1 item (originally illustrating a Foreign Office memorandum, transmitted to the Colonial...
Catalogue reference: MFQ 1/851
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This record is about the 1 item (originally illustrating a Foreign Office memorandum, transmitted to the Colonial... dating from 1889 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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- MFQ 1/851
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1889
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1 item (originally illustrating a Foreign Office memorandum, transmitted to the Colonial Office, 20 November 1889) extracted from CO 96/206. West Africa. 'Copie der Uebersichtskarte Deutsches Schutzgebiet Togo': map, in German, of an area (now in Ghana), east of the Volta River, showing the German government's view of the limits of the British [Gold Coast] protectorate; also showing roads and tracks. Scale: 1 inch to about 12 miles (calculated). [By] Judd and Co, September 1889; revised edition. MS additions, coloured, in English, showing the British view of the boundary between British territory and German Togoland; MS reference table. On sheet 56 cm x 38 cm.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English and German
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- 45 cm x 32.5 cm
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- Open Document, Open Description
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