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Title: Loanda
Subject: Luanda (Luanda, Angola)--Maps, Luanda (Angola : Province)--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing region around Luanda in Angola and Atlantic Coast, and international, intercolonial, provincial, district boundaries, with land aerodromes, landing grounds, marine lights, railways with gauge measurements, under construction and projected, roads suitable for motor traffic, tracks and motor tracks, telephone or telegraph lines along roads or tracks, provinces, districts, localities, mountain ranges, peaks, valleys, capes and islands, tribes, bridges, towns of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th class importance, rivers, unsurveyed water courses, canals, marshes and swamps, ground liable to inundation, geodetic trigonometric stations, water points, historical ruins, wireless telegraph station,mission stations. Colour with hyposometric tints. Relief shown by form lines. First edition. Scale 1 : 2,000,000.
Identifier: islandora:19287

Title: Orange River irrigation schemes : plan to illustrate the reports of inspection made by A. S. le Roex and H. C. Litchfield of the Public Works Department, October, 1896
Subject: Irrigation--South Africa--Northern Cape--Maps, Orange River--Maps,
Description: A map showing Government lands, farms and irrigable lands along the Orange River from the border with German territory, along the border with Bechuanaland and the Division of Hay above the river, Kenhardt, Prieska and Hope Town below the river, with other rivers. Some colour. Scale 1 2/8 inch to 10 miles.
Identifier: islandora:25101

Title: Kerzaz, Colomb-Béchar
Subject: Kerzaz (Algeria)--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing Kerzaz, a town, commune and capital of Kerzaz District in Béchar Province of western Algeria, and military territory boundaries, neighbouring/adjoining boundaries, with automobile tracks, main and secondary roads, permanent water points, temporary water points, wells filled, depth in metres of wells, white blooms gypsum rocks, salt water marshes, dunes with height in metres, sand dunes taking form, longitudinal dunes in the region non elevated, island or board mountains, reinforced towers, mosques, post and telegraph offices, geodetic points, astronomical points, altitude with height in metres, relative side of escarpment, dune, cavity, master and regular curves, landing fields, palm trees, wood and brush. Relief shown by form lines, hachures, height in metres. Colour. Scale 1: 500 000.
Identifier: islandora:19176

Title: Van Rhynsdorp
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Vanrhynsdorp Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Western Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: This map forms part of the Imperial map of the Cape Colony., The map shows grand trunk roads, trunk roads, branch roads, farm roads, rivers, hills, pans, railways, telegraph lines, homesteads, farm names, farm boundaries and divisional boundaries in the Van Rhynsdorp area., Relief shown by hachures., The Imperial map of the Cape Colony was "compiled by the Field Intelligence Division or Department of the British Army in Cape Town during the second Anglo-Boer War. ... [P.H. du P.] Casgrain ... superintended its production ..." (Board, C. "Certainly better than nothing at all" : a re-examination of the Imperial map of South Africa 1899-1902. Proceedings of the 21st International Cartographic Conference, Durban, 2003. Available online: http://icaci.org/files/documents/ICC_proceedings/ICC2003/Papers/109.pdf (accessed 5 Sept. 2012))., "This map is not to be considered as absolutely accurate"., Projection not given., Printed in black and red., Map folds into an outer cover., Map 702 is printed on linen. Copy 701 is mounted on linen.
Identifier: islandora:24867

Title: Queenstown
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Queenstown Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: This map forms part of the Imperial map of the Cape Colony., The map shows grand trunk roads, trunk roads, branch roads, farm roads, rivers, hills, pans, railways, telegraph lines, homesteads, farm names, farm boundaries and divisional boundaries in the Queenstown area., Relief shown by hachures., The Imperial map of the Cape Colony was "compiled by the Field Intelligence Division or Department of the British Army in Cape Town during the second Anglo-Boer War. ... [P.H. du P.] Casgrain ... superintended its production ..." (Board, C. "Certainly better than nothing at all" : a re-examination of the Imperial map of South Africa 1899-1902. Proceedings of the 21st International Cartographic Conference, Durban, 2003. Available online: http://icaci.org/files/documents/ICC_proceedings/ICC2003/Papers/109.pdf (accessed 5 Sept. 2012))., "This map is not to be considered as absolutely accurate.", Projection not given., Printed in black and red., Map folds into an outer cover., The map is mounted on linen.
Identifier: islandora:24854

Title: Insurance plan of Cape Town, Cape Colony, South Africa
Subject: Insurance--South Africa--Cape Town--Maps., Fire risk assessment--South Africa--Cape Town--Maps., Cape Town (South Africa)--Maps., Cape Town (South Africa)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Maps.
Description: The plans record street names, widths and numbers; fire-protection facilities (including the location of salt and fresh water hydrants); materials, shape, height, placement and use of buildings; the location of openings, types of stored materials and areas of high-risk activites on industrial sites., Sheet 1 comprises the key plan indicating 9 areas of central Cape Town surveyed by Goad (scale 1:6,000. 1 in. to 500 feet). This key plan includes notes on the water supply (salt and fresh) in central Cape Town, details of personnel and equipment of the Cape Town Fire Brigade and general comments on the city's climate and buildings. Also included is a sheet comprising an index of streets, buildings and firms. The buildings are colour coded by material type., Title from key plan on sheet 1., The 11 sheets (1 index and 10 maps) are in a hardcover volume, each sheet forming 2 leaves., This volume is one of 18 Cape Town fire-insurance atlases surveyed and drawn by Charles Edward Goad and printed in 1895. The bookplate pasted on the inside of the front cover indicates this copy was intended for the Union Assurance Society.
Identifier: islandora:19825

Title: Plan of the Transkeian Territories, sheet no. 9
Subject: Xalanga (South Africa)--Maps, Transkei (South Africa)--History--Maps,
Description: Map showing sheet no. 9 of the Plan of the Transkeian Territories, showing the districts of Xalanga and St. Mark's, locations, names of places, plan numbers, district boundaries, rivers, roads, plantations, and forests. Scale: 800 Cape roods to 1 in. Relief shown by shading. No projection given.
Identifier: islandora:30076

Title: Sketch map of the Cango Cave
Subject: Cango Caves (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Map of the Cango Cave drawn to face page 44 of the First Annual Report of the Geological Commission, 1896 [G81-1897]. Drawn by H.M. Luttman-Johnson, a student of the South African College, in January 1897, to accompany the Notes on the Cango Cave by G.S. Corstophine in the report., The map gives details of the chambers of the cave, showing the location of dolomite, stalactites and stalagmites.
Identifier: islandora:19608

Title: German S. W. Africa : Sheet 21 Arahoab
Subject: Namibia--Maps,
Description: Map of German South West Africa showing towns, villages, roads, rivers, vegetation and other features in the region of Arahoab., Relief not shown., Projection not given.
Identifier: islandora:19814

Title: South Africa
Subject: Railroad stations--South Africa--Maps, Transportation--South Africa--Maps,
Description: Map of South Africa with illustrations showing railway routes and links, air routes, neighbouring countries, cities and towns, international boudaries, railway stations, and rivers. Scale: 2.5 in. to 100 miles. No projection given.
Identifier: islandora:29929

Title: Congo Belge. Katanga. Feuille Tshinsenda
Subject: Tshinsenda (Congo)--Maps, Katanga (Congo)--Maps, ,
Description: Map of the Tshinsenda region in the Belgian Congo on the border of Rhodesia, showing colonial and sistrict boundaries,,with triangulation points of second and third orders and points determining the plane tables, rivers, motor routes, old traction routes, cycle paths and routes of indigenous importance. Indigenous paths, contours, railways, Important European communities, agricultural, commercial and industrial establishments, mines and quarries, small native communities, important native communities, bush, marsh, grass, Savannah woods, forests. Relief is shown in form lines and landform drawings. Colour. Scale 1 : 200.000.
Identifier: islandora:25041

Title: Maroc
Subject: Morocco--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing Morocco, parts of adjacent countries, the Atlantic Ocean with Madeira and the Canary Islands, and international boundaries, intercolonial boundaries, provincial boundaries, frontier district boundaries, with towns of 1st importance to 5th importance, unsurveyed water courses, canals, marshes, ground liable to flooding, trigonometrical points, height and depth in metres, water points, ruins of historical interest, wireless stations, landing grounds, mines or quarries, lighthouses, fortified houses, oases, roads,track paths, mountain ranges, camps and petrol depôts. Second edition, ground/air. Some colour. Relief shown by form lines, hachures and hill shading. Scale 1 : 2,000,000
Identifier: islandora:19154

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