Colonial Office: Maps and Plans: Series II

IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA

Reference code(s): CO 1047

Title: Colonial Office: Maps and Plans: Series II

Date(s): 1779 - 1947

Level of description: Series

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 1101 flat sheet(s)

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Scope and content: This series contains the second part of the Colonial Office 'old collection' of maps and plans of former colonial territories.

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System of arrangement: This series is arranged in alphabetical order of country or place. The descriptions of many maps include original references having one of the letter prefixes GSGS, TSGS, IDWO and OR. The meaning of these prefixes is as follows:

• GSGS: Geographical Section, General Staff
• TSGS: Topographical Section, General Staff
• IDWO: Intelligence Division, War Office
• OR: Official Reference

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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, British, Asian

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Colonial countries

Maps

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