Colonial Office and predecessors: Maps and Plans: Series I

IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA

Reference code(s): CO 700

Title: Colonial Office and predecessors: Maps and Plans: Series I

Date(s): 1595 - 1927

Level of description: Series

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 2975 flat sheets and volumes

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Name of creator(s): Commonwealth Office, 1966-1968, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1968 Colonial Office, 1854-1966, War and Colonial Department, 1801-1854

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Scope and content: This series contains the first part of the Colonial Office `old collection' of maps and plans of former Colonial territories. Many of the earlier records are manuscript maps of the North American Colonies, Canada and the West Indies.

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Language/scripts of material: English

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Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: December 2001

Interest: Caribbean, Black, Asian

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Colonial countries

Maps

Personal/Corporate names

Commonwealth Office

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Colonial Office

War and Colonial Department

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North America

Caribbean