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1 item (originally enclosed in despatch number 151, 6 July 1887) extracted from FO...
Catalogue reference: MFQ 1/1129
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This record is about the 1 item (originally enclosed in despatch number 151, 6 July 1887) extracted from FO... dating from [1887] 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 1/1129
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1887]
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1 item (originally enclosed in despatch number 151, 6 July 1887) extracted from FO 262/585 (folio 336). Japan: Yamagata province (now prefecture). Railway map, showing government lines and private lines, with stations; also showing towns, roads, rivers, hills and place names. Reference table. Scale: 1 inch to about 8 miles. Compass indicator. Lithographed by Koriyama-Do, Yamagata. MS additions, coloured, giving some English translations and transliterations.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- 27 cm x 39.5 cm
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3984150/
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Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series...
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