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    Masaka, Uganda.
    Masaka: Uganda 1: 250,000     This map of Masaka District, Buganda Province in the Uganda Protectorate (present-day Uganda) was issued by the Uganda Department of Lands and Surveys in 1959. It was compiled by the department from earlier maps and from aerial photography carried out in 1950. The area depicted on the map includes the region west of Lake Victoria and north of the border with Tanganyika Territory (present-day…
    • Contributor: Uganda. Department of Lands and Surveys - Great Britain
    • Date: 1959-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Budadiri, Uganda.
    Budadiri: Uganda 1: 50,000     This map of the Budadiri region of Uganda was issued by the Uganda Department of Lands and Surveys in 1963 and is based on field survey data and on aerial surveys carried out in 1959 and 1960. Budadiri is in the eastern part of the country, on the border with Kenya. The region encompasses the western foothills of Mount Elgon, an extinct volcano with…
    • Contributor: Uganda. Department of Lands and Surveys - Uganda - Fairey Air Surveys Limited - Great Britain. Overseas Surveys Directorate - Great Britain. Royal Air Force
    • Date: 1963-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Sigulu, Uganda.
    Sigulu: Uganda 1: 50,000     This map of the Sigulu region, in Namayingo District in eastern Uganda, was issued by the Lands and Surveys Department of Uganda in 1963, and is based on aerial surveys carried out in 1948, 1952, and 1960, and on field survey data. The map shows the heavily forested islands of Bugana and Sigulu in the northeastern part of Lake Victoria and the adjacent coastal…
    • Contributor: Uganda. Department of Lands and Surveys - Uganda - Fairey Air Surveys Limited - Great Britain. Overseas Surveys Directorate - Great Britain. Royal Air Force
    • Date: 1963-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Mulabana, Uganda.
    Mulabana: Uganda 1: 50,000     This map of Mulabana, Sese County, Masaka District, Buganda Province in Uganda Protectorate (present-day Uganda) was issued in 1961 by the Uganda Lands and Surveys Department. It was compiled and drawn by the Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Department of Technical Cooperation in the British government based on field survey data and on aerial photography conducted by the British Royal Air Force in 1950. Mulabana…
    • Contributor: Uganda. Department of Lands and Surveys - Great Britain. Overseas Surveys Directorate - Great Britain - Great Britain. Royal Air Force
    • Date: 1961-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Kidera, Uganda.
    Kidera: Uganda 1: 50,000     This map of the Kidera region in the Kayunga District of Uganda was published by the Directorate of Overseas Surveys for the government of Uganda in 1964. It is based on aerial surveys carried out in 1959 and 1960 and on field survey data. The Victoria Nile flows northwestward from Lake Victoria into Lake Kyoga. The river then exits the lake and flows westward…
    • Contributor: Uganda. Department of Lands and Surveys - Uganda - Great Britain. Overseas Surveys Directorate - Fairey Air Surveys Limited
    • Date: 1964-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Damba, Uganda.
    Damba: Uganda 1: 50,000     This map of Damba Island, Kyagwe County, Mengo District, Buganda Province in Uganda Protectorate (present-day Uganda) was issued in 1961 by the Uganda Lands and Surveys Department. It was compiled and drawn by the Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Department of Technical Cooperation in the British government, based on field survey data and on aerial photography carried out in 1955. Damba is located in the…
    • Contributor: Uganda. Department of Lands and Surveys - Hunting Aerosurveys Limited - Great Britain. Overseas Surveys Directorate - Great Britain
    • Date: 1961-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Masiwa, Uganda.
    Masiwa: Uganda 1: 50,000     This map of Sagitu, Lolui, and Masiwa islands in Lake Victoria was issued in 1963 and copyrighted by the government of newly independent Uganda. The map was compiled and drawn by the British Directorate of Overseas Surveys in cooperation with the government of the Uganda Protectorate. It is based on aerial photography carried out in 1952 and 1960, on a British Admiralty chart from…
    • Contributor: Uganda. Department of Lands and Surveys - Uganda - Fairey Air Surveys Limited - Great Britain. Overseas Surveys Directorate - Great Britain. Royal Air Force - Great Britain. Ordnance Survey
    • Date: 1963-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Bugondo, Uganda.
    Bugondo, Uganda, 1: 50,000     This map of Bugondo is a 1976 reprint, with minor alterations, of a map originally issued in 1963 by the Uganda Department of Lands and Surveys, based on aerial photography carried out in December 1959-January 1960 by the Department of Technical Cooperation (Directorate of Overseas Surveys) of the British government. Uganda was a British protectorate from the 1890s until independence in 1962. Bugondo Sub-County…
    • Contributor: Uganda. Department of Lands and Surveys - Uganda - Great Britain. Overseas Surveys Directorate - Fairey Air Surveys Limited
    • Date: 1976-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Bale, Uganda.
    Bale: Uganda 1: 50,000     This map of the area around the town of Bale, in the region of Buganda, in the district of Uganda that was then called Mengo, was published by the Directorate of Overseas Surveys for the government of Uganda in 1964. It is based on aerial surveys carried out in 1960 and on field survey data. Bale is located on the west side of the…
    • Contributor: Uganda. Department of Lands and Surveys - Uganda - Great Britain. Overseas Surveys Directorate - Fairey Air Surveys Limited
    • Date: 1964-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Entebbe, Uganda, Africa.
    Entebbe: Uganda, Africa 1: 250,000     This 1911 map shows Entebbe, the seat of government of the Protectorate of Uganda prior to independence in 1962. It is based on surveys by the Uganda Topographical Survey of 1909--10 and the Uganda Survey Department of 1907--8, completed by the Geographical Section of the General Staff, and printed at the War Office in London. Depicted are the counties, kingdoms, water springs, and major…
    • Contributor: Uganda Topographical Survey - Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section - Uganda. Survey Department
    • Date: 1911-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Sese, Uganda, Africa.
    Sese, Uganda, Africa, 1:250,000     This map of Sese, an archipelago in the northwestern part of Lake Victoria, Uganda, was issued in July 1938 by the Land and Survey Office of the Uganda Protectorate, based on a survey carried out in 1936 by the protectorate's director of surveys. The map shows roads and tracks on the larger islands, forested regions, and towns and villages. Trigonometrical points from the survey…
    • Contributor: Uganda. Land and Survey Office - Uganda. Survey Department
    • Date: 1938-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Map
    Bubeke, Uganda. This map of Bubeke, Kalangala District, Uganda Protectorate (present-day Uganda) was compiled and drawn by the Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Department of Technical Cooperation in the British government and issued in 1960 by the Uganda Department of Lands and Surveys. It is based on aerial photography and field survey data. Bubeke Island is located in the western part of Lake Victoria, south of Entebbe.…
    • Contributor: Uganda. Department of Lands and Surveys - Great Britain. Overseas Surveys Directorate - Great Britain
    • Date: 1960-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Ankole District, Uganda.
    Ankole District: Uganda 1: 250,000     This map of Ankole District, Uganda Protectorate (present-day Uganda) was issued in 1945 by the Survey, Land and Mines Department of the protectorate, based on surveys carried out by the director of surveys. Located in southwestern Uganda, the district extended eastward from the shores of Lake Edward. To the south it was bordered by Tanganyika Territory (present-day Tanzania) and the Belgian trust territory of…
    • Contributor: Uganda. Survey, Land, and Mines Department - Great Britain. Army. East African Engineers. East African and Southern Rhodesian Base Survey Company, 157th - Middlemas, N. A.
    • Date: 1945-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Periodical
    The Uganda Journal. The Uganda Literary and Scientific Society was established at Entebbe, Uganda Protectorate, in 1923. Its main activity consisted of the reading of papers and the delivery of lectures on topics relating to Uganda. In 1933 the society moved its headquarters to Kampala and decided to issue a regular publication, The Uganda Journal. The journal's declared aim was "to collect and publish information which may…
    • Contributor: Uganda Literary and Scientific Society - Uganda Society
    • Date: 1934-01-01
  • Map
    Map of Uganda Protectorate. This map of Uganda during the period of British colonial rule was published in 1935 by the Department of Surveys of the Uganda Protectorate. Shown are international, intercolonial, provincial, district, and county boundaries; roads of different capacities; bush paths; telegraph lines; railways; Protestant and Roman Catholic missions; ancient sites; and physical features. The latter include rivers, lakes, elevation above sea level, and "permanent watering…
    • Contributor: Mathews, D. O. - Watts, B. T. - Uganda. Survey Department
    • Date: 1935-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Book/Printed Material
    Growls from Uganda. Growls from Uganda is a book of reflections on various aspects of modern life written by an unidentified Englishman living in Uganda in the early part of the 20th century. The author's pseudonym, Critolaos, is taken from a relatively obscure ancient Greek philosopher who was a member of the school of Skeptics. The first chapter, entitled "Civilisation from a Distance," describes the experience of…
    • Contributor: Critolaos
    • Date: 1909-01-01
    • Resource: - 138 pages

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    Mubende District, Buganda Province, Uganda Protectorate. This map of Mubende District, Buganda Province, Uganda Protectorate (present-day Uganda) was issued in 1945 by the Survey, Land and Mines Department of the protectorate. Uganda was a British protectorate from the 1890s until independence in 1962. The map shows provincial, district, and county boundaries; roads of different classes; telegraph lines; telegraph and post offices; trading centers; mission stations; bridges; old forts; and trigonometrical…
    • Contributor: Uganda. Survey, Land, and Mines Department - Middlemas, N. A.
    • Date: 1945-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Book/Printed Material
    The Church in Uganda: A Charge to the Missionaries of the Uganda Mission, 1913. The Church in Uganda: A Charge to the Missionaries of the Uganda Mission, 1913 contains the text of a document by J.J. Willis, bishop of Uganda, addressed to the Anglican missionaries in Uganda on the eve of the 1913 meeting of the Uganda synod. The document has two parts: the first is an overview of the situation of the church in Uganda and of…
    • Contributor: Willis, John Jamieson
    • Date: 1914-01-01
    • Resource: - 24 pages

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    Lake Nabugabo, Uganda, East Africa. This map of Lake Nabugabo, Uganda, was issued in 1963 by the Uganda Department of Lands and Surveys, based on field survey data, aerial photography, and earlier maps. Shown are built-up areas, roads, huts and villages, railroads, airfields, telegraph lines, churches and mosques, ancient sites, and international, regional, district, and other boundaries. Symbols are used to indicate natural features and different types of terrain,…
    • Contributor: Uganda. Department of Lands and Surveys - Hunting Aerosurveys Limited - Great Britain. Overseas Surveys Directorate - Uganda
    • Date: 1963-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Map
    Masaka, Uganda, East Africa.
    Masaka     This map shows the town of Masaka, located in south-central Uganda on the western side of Lake Victoria, and the chief town of Masaka District. The map was published by the Uganda Department of Lands and Surveys in 1967 and is based on aerial photography carried out in 1957 and again in 1966, supplemented by field survey data. At 1:2,500, the map is extremely…
    • Contributor: Uganda. Department of Lands and Surveys
    • Date: 1967-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Bugala, Uganda, East Africa.
    Bugala     This map shows the western part of Bugala Island, the largest of the islands of the Sese (also seen as Ssese) Islands archipelago in Lake Victoria, Uganda. Bugala is some 40 kilometers long, with Luku, its northern settlement and tip lying just off the mainland coast near the village of Bukakata. The ferry link between Bukakata and Bugala is shown on the map. The…
    • Contributor: Uganda. Department of Lands and Surveys
    • Date: 1967-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda. This map of Murchison Falls National Park, the largest national park in Uganda, was issued in 1956 by the Lands and Surveys Department of the Uganda Protectorate. Shown are the park boundaries, roads and tracks, ranger stations, control points, and the park headquarters and safari lodge. The scale of the map is 1:250,000. The park is bisected by the Victoria Nile, which flows westward…
    • Contributor: Uganda. Department of Lands and Surveys - Trustees of the Uganda National Parks
    • Date: 1956-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Kajansi, Uganda, East Africa.
    Kajansi     This map shows the region around the town of Kajansi, in Wakiso District, Central Uganda, located on the northern shore of Lake Victoria, approximately 16 kilometers south of Kampala. The map is a 1968 edition of a map first published in 1957 by the Directorate of Overseas Surveys of the United Kingdom, based on aerial photography taken in 1955 and supplemented by field survey…
    • Contributor: Uganda. Department of Lands and Surveys - Great Britain. Directorate of Overseas Surveys
    • Date: 1968-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Book/Printed Material
    Policy of the Uganda Mission. Policy of the Uganda Mission is the report by J.J. Willis (1872--1954) that he presented to an Anglican Church congress in July 1912, the same year that he became the second bishop of Uganda, succeeding Alfred R. Tucker. The report begins with an overview of the area, population, and the church's missionary policy in the six provinces of the Diocese of Uganda. This is…
    • Contributor: Willis, John Jamieson
    • Date: 1912-01-01
    • Resource: - 32 pages

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    Masindi Port, Uganda, East Africa.
    Masindi Port: Uganda, East Africa 1: 250,000     This map of Masindi Port in Uganda was drawn by the Geographical Section of the General Staff of the British Army, based on a survey carried out in 1909 by the Uganda Topographical Survey, and printed at the War Office in London in 1911. Shown are international, kingdom or provincial, and county or district boundaries; railways (operational and projected); rivers and streams; swamps; wells,…
    • Contributor: Uganda Topographical Survey - Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section - Macfie, William Campbell
    • Date: 1911-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page