British Commonwealth and Africa, 1906-1962

File

Shelfmark: MSS. Perham 761

Held at the Weston Library

Comprises:

Folder 1 (fols. 1-12) Bibliography of colonial atlases, 1922-1946.

Folder 2: British Commonwealth and Africa - general:

(item 1) map of the world with territories dealt within the Colonial Office shown in red, published by the Directorate of Colonial Services; no scale; paper, 1948
(item 2) Evolving Commonwealth, a reference map prepared for the British Information Services, No. R.5336; no scale; paper, 1962
(item 3) Afrika [sic], published by the Education and Cultural Relations Division, Office of Military Government, US; 1:20,000,000; paper, 1948
(item 4) The Changing Map of Africa, published by the Central Office of Information, London, No. R.4486; no scale; paper, 1960
(item 5) The Changing Map of Africa, published by the Central Office of Information, London, revised, No. R.4858; no scale; paper, 1961.

Folders 3-5: South Africa:

folder 3 (item 1) transparent tracing from The Times Atlas of the Transvaal and South West Africa (Namibia), signed F. Debenham; 1 in = 100 miles, [c. 1930]
folder 4 (item 1) General Plan of the Transvaal and Orange Free State (South Africa) Gold and Coal Fields, issued by the Central Mining - Rand Mines Group, Johannesburg; 1 in = 200 miles; paper, 31 Dec 1956
folder 5: (item 1) Bechuanaland Protectorate (Botswana); printed at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton. 1,1,250,000; paper, 1935; and (item 2) Sketch Map of the Bechuanaland Protectorate (Botswana), South Africa. Drawn and printed at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton; 1 in = 60 miles; paper, 1936.

Folder 6: British West Africa:

(item 1) The Gambia. Sketch map included in a Central Office of Information fact sheet, No. 5054; 1 in = 20 miles; paper, 1961
(item 2) Gold Coast Survey General Map of the Gold Coast and that part of Togoland mandated to Great Britain; 1:1,000,000; paper, 1929
(item 3) Northern Provinces of Nigeria. Prepared by the Survey Department, Lagos; 1:2,000,000; paper, 1928
(item 4) Bornu. K.N.T.581; 1:1,000,000; paper, 1929
(item 5) Southern Provinces of Nigeria. Drawn and reproduced by Nigerian Surveys, Lagos; 1:2,000,000; paper, 1930
(item 6) Sokoto Province. Compiled from information supplied by the Resident, Sokoto, Oct. 1948, drawn and reproduced by the Survey Department, Nigeria; paper, 1948.

Folder 7: French West and Equatorial Africa:

(item 1) Le Tchad, Aspect général en fin Avril 1904, publie par La Société de Geographie avec le contours du Ministère des Colonies; 1:400,000; paper, 1906
(item 2) Cameroon, sleeping sickness map. Prepared by Dr Janot, Chief Medical Officer of the Prophylactic Mission; 1:500,000; paper, 1928
(item 3) French Equatorial Africa and Cameroons; first edition issued by the Geographical Section, General Staff, No. 4261, War Office; 1:3,000,000; paper, 1942.

Folder 8: British Central Africa:

(item 1) Northern Rhodesia (Zambia); 1:4,000,000; paper, n.d.
(item 2) Northern Rhodesia (Zambia); drawn by the Department of Surveys, Lusaka; 1:2,000,000; paper, 1957
(item 3) Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe); map showing approximate distribution of tribes and languages, by F.W.J. Posselt; 1:3,000,000; paper, n.d.
(item 4) Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe); map to accompany the Report of the Land Commission, 1925, compiled in the Surveyor General's Office, Salisbury (Harare); 1:1,000,000; paper, 1924.

Dates

8 folders

MSS. Perham 761

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