Misc: Allied maps of the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy during World War Two
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0099 KCLMA MISC 59 |
Held at | : Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma › |
Full title | : Misc: Allied maps of the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy during World War Two |
Date(s) | : 1940-1944 |
Level of description | : Collection (fonds) |
Extent | : 5 boxes or 0.05 cubic metres |
Name of creator(s) | : Geographical Section, General Staff, War Office; Army Map Service, US Army |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
World War Two maps of the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy, produced by the Geographical Section, General Staff and the Army Map Service, US Army, including one inch to the one mile ordnance survey maps of England and Wales produced by the Geographical Section, General Staff, including of London, Bath and Bristol, Cardiff and the mouth of the Severn, Windsor, the Isle of Wight, Weymouth and Dorchester, Bolton and Manchester, 1940-1942; one inch to the one mile ordnance survey maps of British counties produced by the Geographical Section, General Staff, 1940-1942; 1:250,000 and 1:500,000 scale maps of Germany produced by the Geographical Section, General Staff, including of Kiel, Hamburg, Halle, Leipzig, Lubeck, Bremen, Frankfurt-am-Main, Hannover, Osnabrück, Magdeburg, Schwerin, and Munich; Army Map Service, US Army 1:200,000 road maps of France copied from 1939 Michelin guide including of the Carcassonne-Nimes, Avignon-Digne, Auxerre-Dijon, Mons- Luxembourg, and Lyon-Geneve areas, 1943-1944; 1:100,000 map of Utrecht, Netherlands, 1:50,000 map of Arnhem, Netherlands, and 1:250,000 map of Amsterdam, Netherlands, produced by the Geographical Section, General Staff, 1940-1944; 1:250,000 maps of Italy produced by the Geographical Section, General Staff, including of Bologna, Firenze, Genova, and Siena, 1943
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
Finding aids:
Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented to the Centre in 1996 by Dr Steve Weiss, Department of War Studies, King's College London
Allied Materials
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Description Notes
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Date(s) of descriptions:
Nov 1999
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