Catalogue description Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Library and Records Department and predecessors: Cartographers' Maps, Plans and Drawings

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Reference: FCO 18
Title: Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Library and Records Department and predecessors: Cartographers' Maps, Plans and Drawings
Description:

This series contains maps and plans created by Foreign Office cartographers. They depict among other things, international boundaries and natural resources, areas of conflict and political divisions, maritime boundaries, relief maps and survey results, historical railways, technical drawings, building and engineering plans and architectural drawings.

Date: 1875-2003
Related material:

FO 925 (FO maps to 1940), CO 700 and CO 1047 (Colonial Office maps covering up to World War II) and CO 1054 (Colonial Office and Commonwealth Relations Office maps)

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Commonwealth Office, Library, 1966-1967

Commonwealth Office, Library Department, 1967-1968

Foreign and Commonwealth Office Library, 2000-

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Libraries, 1968-1969

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Library and Records Department, 1969-1999

Foreign Office, Library, 1801-1946

Foreign Office, Library, 1959-1968

Foreign Office, Research and Library Department, 1946-1959

Physical description: 2354 flat sheet(s)
Dimensions: 21 x1 5cm-171 x 74cm
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2018 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

Five cartographers worked for the Foreign Office and Foreign & Commonwealth Office Library and Records Department during the period 1875-2003 and they provided up to date maps to the geographical departments or the Research Department. The maps often demonstrate British government contemporary policy on geographical areas during the period covered.

Also included within this collection are maps drawn by Julian Walker who surveyed and mapped boundaries within the Trucial States during the period 1955-1960 whilst a member of the Diplomatic Service.

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