Box 0360.03

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The vintage map collection is divided into three sections: United States of America, Europe and world crisis locales are: Box 1 contains 21 folders: Townsend MacCoun's series of The Island of Manhattan five related historical maps reproduced in 1909 tracing Manhattan's history from 1609 to 1783, the United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission's series of 14 historical maps of the original Colonies from 1775-1794, the Gettysburg National Park Commission Battle Field of Gettysburg,...

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Middle East, Scale 1:5,500,000. Map measures 86 x 110 cm, multi- colored and black ink on white heavy paper, only country, its boundaries and its capital city noted on huge map, red ink stamp Lehigh University Depository Library Oct 4 1984, two Lehigh University Libraries bar code 3 9151 00335182 8 (school wall map).

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Motor and Camel Surveys in the NORTH ARABIAN DESERT by Major A. L. Holt, 1920-1922, Scale 1:1,500,000, published by the Royal Geographic Society in The Geographical Journal, Vol. 62, No. 4 Oct.1923, printed as North Arabian Desert by Philby & Holt, Arabic glossary. Map measures 39 x 62 cm, tan and black ink on ivory paper, purple ink stamp Lehigh University Library Aug 13 1952, appears map taken from book.

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Afghanistan Districts PREX3.10/4:AF/17, Scale is 9.5 cm = 100 miles, 2003?, 765275Al 11-03. Map in English measures 68 x 69 cm, multicolored and black ink on heavy white paper, red ink stamp Lehigh University Depository Library Feb 10, 2004 (wall map, crumpled lower left corner).

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Soviet Union, Scale 1:8,750,000, includes Russian Soviet Federate Socialist Republic, capital cities, and countries around Russia, PREX 3. 10/4:SO 8/18 # 856-A-1. Map measures 86 x 110 cm, multicolored and black ink on heavy white paper, Lehigh University Libraries bar code 3 9151 00730988 9, red ink stamp Lehigh University Depository Library Aug 20 1985 (wall map, torn on top of middle fold).

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Gold Coast Geological Survey General Map of the Gold Coast and that part of Togoland mandated to Great Britain, Scale 1:1,000,000, (blue ink stamp Gold Coast Survey 75 Cornwall Gardens, S.W. 7), Third Edition, June 1928, Drawn and printed at Survey H. Q. Accra 1928. Map measures 80 x 60 cm, multicolored and black ink on ivory stiff paper, repairs of cellophane tape and other tatters, purple ink stamp Lehigh University Library Aug 13 Rec'd.

Scope and Contents THE GOLD COAST Sketch Map of WESTERN GONJA Northern Territories by C. St. B. Shields 1924, The Geographical Journal, May 1924, Scale 1:500,000, published by the Royal Geographic Society Gold Coast Shields. Map measures 47 x 31.5 cm, blue and black ink on fragile ivory paper, purple ink stamp Lehigh University Library Aug 1952, appears map taken from a book. (The British-held Gold Coast declared independence in 1957 and became Ghana). The Gold Coast was a British Colony on Gulf of Guinea from...

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NIGERIA SOUTHERN PROVINCES Prismatic Compass Traverses in ONITSHA PROVINCE by the Rev. G. T. Basden, Scale 1:250 000, small inset The Geographical Journal, May 1925, published by the Royal Geographical Society. Map measures 34.5 x 42 cm, blue and black ink on fragile ivory paper, purple ink stamp Lehigh University Library Aug 13 1952, appears map torn from a book.

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Map to illustrate the paper on THE STRUCTURE OF THE EASTERN FLANK OF THE RIFT VALLEY NEAR NAIROBI By H. L. Sikes (Directory of Public Works, Kenya Colony, The Geographical Journal, Nov. 1926, published by the Royal Geographical Society), Scale 1:200 000. Map measures 29.5 x 52 cm, tan and black ink on ivory paper, 2 insets: Section at Lat. 1o 24' South, Section at Lat. 1o 15" 20" South, appears map torn from book.

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REPUBLIQUE RWANDAISE Carte Generale 1992?, Scale 1:250 000, Editeur: Ministerium des Innern und fur Sport Rheinland-Pfalz, Abteilung Vermessungs- und Katasterweses, 1988, Etabli et realize par le Landesvermessungsamt Rheinland-Pfalz, 1992. Map in French measures 84 x 98 cm, multicolored and black ink on white heavy paper, red ink stamp Lehigh University Library Sep 14 1999 white tag: 912.675 R473r MapCase