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Series
Foreign Office: Library: Maps and Plans
Catalogue reference: FO 925
What's it about?
FO 925
This series contains maps, plans, and atlases accumulated by the Foreign Office from library material, extracts from despatches and reports, and items collected by diplomats in the course of their work. They are not specifically diplomatic maps,...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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FO 925
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office: Library: Maps and Plans
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Date (When the record was created)
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1700-1944
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains maps, plans, and atlases accumulated by the Foreign Office from library material, extracts from despatches and reports, and items collected by diplomats in the course of their work.
They are not specifically diplomatic maps, but contain historical information. Some are manuscript, original and unique maps. Others are printed, by one form or another: for example, engraved, lithographed, photozincographed, and so on. Some have manuscript additions. The maps are single sheets or gatherings of sheets (either flat or rolls) and published atlases.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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For maps acquired in 1900 and later, bandwidths of numbers were allocated by the Foreign Office to geographical regions, beginning with 7001-10000 (for maps of Africa); in other words, the intervening numbers 4653 to 7000 were not used.
Within each bandwidth not all numbers were taken up: piece numbers 4653-7000, 8029-12000, 12391-15000, 15026-16000, 16045-17000, 17287-19000, 19013-20000, 20134-21000, 21203-24000, 24023-25000, 25389-28000, 28026-29000, 29069-30000, 30404-31000, 31127-32000, 32056-33000, 33082-34000, 34026-35000, 35049-36000, 36049-37000, 37268-38000, 38031-39000, 39033-40000, 40012-41000, 41526-44000 were not used.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For Foreign Office maps and plans after 1940 see CO 1054
For registers and indexes to the maps in FO 925, see FO 1088
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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)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Foreign Office, Library, 1801-1946
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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18726 folded maps
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- International
- Maps and plans
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Some of the maps in FO 925 have been catalogued in: 'Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies', London: HMSO, 1974; 'Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 3. Africa', London: HMSO, 1982; 'Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey', London: The Stationery Office, 1998.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8224/
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Foreign Office: Library: Maps and Plans
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