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    The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Shows projected or proposed railways and international boundary lines. Relief shown by form lines and spot heights. "Darfur; portions of adjacent provinces and part of French Equatorial Africa, revised, April, 1921." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section
    • Date: 1921-01-01
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    Somaliland 1:250,000. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Geographic coverage complete in 17 sheets. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Accompanied by manual A.M.S. index (24 x 36 cm.). Includes index to adjoining sheets. LC copy imperfect: Sheets 1 and 3 wanting.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section
    • Date: 1934-01-01

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    Maps of the Balkan Peninsula. Relief shown by spot heights; relief also shown by contours and gradient tints on some sheets. Depths shown by gradient tints and soundings on some sheets. Portfolio title. Common title in upper margin of some 1:1,000,000-scale sheets: Europe, scale 1:1,000,000 -- International map, Europe 1:1,000,000. Statement of attribution in lower margin of some sheets, e.g.: War Office, Jan'y 1912 -- War Office, December 1918...
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Ordnance Survey - Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section - Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1919-01-01

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    The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Shows physical features, political and administrative boundaries, populated places, tribal names, railways, telegraph lines, roads, and desert tracks. Relief shown by hachures. "I.D. W. O. No. 1856." "Lithod. at Intell. Div., War Office, Septr. 1904." Include reference, names of agents for the sale of maps published by the Topographical Section, General Staff. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster...
    • Contributor: Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section - Great Britain. War Office. Intelligence Division
    • Date: 1904-01-01
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    British Battles During 1918 (8th August to 11th November 1918).
    British Battles During 1918 (8th Aug. to 11th Nov. 1918)     This colorful map was produced by the Geographical Section of the General Staff of the UK War Office, printed by Waterlow & Sons, and made available for public sale shortly after the end of World War I. It provides a summary of the Hundred Days offensive by British, American, and British Empire troops that led to the German surrender on November 11, 1918. It...
    • Contributor: Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section
    • Date: 1918-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    East Africa 1:250,000. Relief shown by contours, gradient tints, form lines, and spot heights. Includes various editions of some sheets. Includes index to adjoining sheets. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section
    • Date: 1954-01-01

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    Egypt 1:50,000. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Composite set of sheets with various sheet names, files alphabetically. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Form AACR2: ga37 2008-03-19
    • Contributor: Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section
    • Date: 1926-01-01

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    Turkey Relief shown by contours and spot heights. "3-43." Former security restriction in upper margin: For use by War and Navy Department Agencies only. Not for sale or distribution. Map originally produced in 1942 by U.K. War Office G.S.G.S.; reissued in 1943 by U.S. Army Map Service. Includes blank elevation diagram in right-side margin. "100187." "5/42/G.S.G.S." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site...
    • Contributor: United States. Army Map Service - Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section
    • Date: 1942-01-01
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    Southwest Arabia: Taiz, Sheet 1.
    S.W. Arabia: Taiz, Sheet 1     This 1916 map shows the southwestern part of the Arabian Peninsula, an area in the present-day Republic of Yemen. The large scale allows for the display of detail about cities and towns, tribes, topographical features, and the inclusion of notes with information not often found on earlier maps of the region. The map covers the sparsely populated mountains in the north to the southern...
    • Contributor: Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section - Maunsell, Francis Richard
    • Date: 1916-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    East Africa 1:125,000. Relief shown by spot heights. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Army. East African Survey Group - Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section
    • Date: 1953-01-01
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    Somaliland Protectorate, 1:125,000 (approx) Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Includes index to adjoining sheets. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section - Great Britain. Directorate of Colonial Surveys
    • Date: 1952-01-01

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    Somaliland 1:250,000. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Includes index to adjoining sheets. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section
    • Date: 1952-01-01

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    Southern Rhodesia, Africa Relief shown by spot heights. Shows administrative division boundaries, farms, and native reserves. Includes index to adjoining sheets. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: Sheet 116-II, Urungwe missing.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section
    • Date: 1909-01-01

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    Southwest Arabia: Ebha, Sheet 4.
    S.W. Arabia: Ebha, Sheet 4     This 1917 map is part of a series of nine large-scale depictions of the southwestern portion of the Arabian Peninsula. It was published by the British Ordnance Survey in cooperation with the Geographical Section of the General Staff at the War Office, which published the series of maps of the peninsula covering Ta'izz, Mecca, Taʼif, Kunfuda (or al-Qunfudhah), Wadi Bishah, Abha, Wadi Shehran, Saada,...
    • Contributor: Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section - Maunsell, Francis Richard
    • Date: 1917-01-01
    • 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. Survey Department - Uganda Topographical Survey - Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section
    • Date: 1911-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Maps of Poland. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Review when scan or object available.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section - Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1919-01-01

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    Abyssinia. Relief shown by form lines and spot heights. Includes provisional sheets. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section
    • Date: 1935-01-01

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    Afghanistan. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Shows railway, road and telegraph lines. "War Office, June 1912". Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section
    • Date: 1912-01-01
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    Spain 1:50,000 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Army Map Service - Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section - Instituto Geográfico Y Estadístico (Spain)
    • Date: 1943-01-01
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    Ethnographical maps of Central & South Eastern Europe and Western Asia Relief shown by spot heights. Shows ethnographic areas (color-coded) as before the effect of the Treaty of Versailles (1919). Also shows international and imperial boundaries. Title from portfolio. Accompanied by text: Note explanatory of the map showing the distribution of nationalities in the Balkan Peninsula (4 pages : ethnohistorical text, footnote ; 22 cm, folded to 12 x 14 cm) Includes note, indexed legend,...
    • Contributor: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section - Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section - Great Britain. War Office
    • Date: 1917-01-01

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    Proposed boundary between Greece and Albania and population composition of south central Yugoslavia and northern Albania. Relief shown by contours, shading, and spot heights. Depths shown by contours on some maps. Title hand-lettered in black ink in upper margin. Base map title printed in upper margin: The Balkans : scale 1:250,000. Annotated in col. inks and pencil to show proposed boundaries, Serbian settlements, Albanian settlements, and Albanian massacres. Includes notes, glossary, and "Index to adjoining sheets." Available also through the...
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Ordnance Survey - Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section
    • Date: 1915-01-01

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    Africa 1:125,000 Sierra Leone Relief shown by spot heights. "G.S.G.S. 2469." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section
    • Date: 1910

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    Southwest Arabia: Mecca, Sheet 8.
    S.W. Arabia: Mecca, Sheet 8     This map is part of a series of nine large-scale depictions of the southwestern portion of the Arabian Peninsula. The map covers the region from Mecca and its port of Jeddah (now Jiddah) in the north to the southern town of al-Līth on the Red Sea and the arid areas towards the southwest. The entire region is known as Hijaz, or Hejaz. Much of...
    • Contributor: Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section - Maunsell, Francis Richard
    • Date: 1917-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    British and German New Guinea.
    British & German New Guinea     This 1906 map of British New Guinea, German New Guinea (also known as Kaiser-Wilhelms-land), and the Bismarck Archipelago was produced by the Geographical Section of the General Staff of the War Office of Great Britain. Germany annexed the northern area of the island of New Guinea in 1884, together with islands of New Britain and New Ireland. The Germans renamed the former New Pomerania...
    • Contributor: Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section - Great Britain. War Office. Intelligence Division
    • Date: 1906-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Germany 1:25,000.
    M841     Relief shown by contours, shading, hachures, and spot heights. Relief shown by gradient tints on special layered edition sheets. Depths shown by form lines on some sheets. Legend in German, English, and French on verso of some sheets. Includes various issues. Later sheets published by D. Survey, War Office and Air Ministry. On some sheets: AMS M 841. Some maps printed on verso of...
    • Contributor: Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section
    • Date: 1943-01-01

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