Title: The Daily Mail commercial map of Africa.
- Not specified
- 1884
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by University of Michigan)
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