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Title: The Daily Mail commercial map of Africa.

Contributors:

Dates

  • Coverage: 1884
  • Coverage: 1884 to 1884

Summary

Includes inset maps: "Africa before the scramble", which shows European possessions in 1884 before the Berlin Congress, and comparison map of England drawn at the same scale showing main railway lines. Shows the Cape-Cairo Railway and other existing and proposed railways, steamship routes, colonial possessions, navigable waters, dense forests with abundant rainfall, completed and uncompleted telegraph lines, general locations of natural resources, and population density by country. Date based on text in map, "Limit of Free Commercial Zone 1899". 1 map: col.; 52 x 52 cm.

Subjects

  • Administrative and political divisions
  • Colonialization
  • Clark Library Map Collections
  • 2022-creator-sprint
  • Africa
  • Railroads
  • Maps

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-18.5,53.17,38.17,-37.53)

Provider

University of Michigan

Rights

  • Access rights: Public
  • This map is in the public domain.

Citation

George Philip & Son. The Daily Mail commercial map of Africa.. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clark1ic/x-004267852/39015091193907

Format

JPEG

Languages

  • eng