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Subject: RE: Re: Looking for historic maps of Tahrir Square in
Downtown Cairo
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:23:37 +0200
From: Jean-Luc ARNAUD <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
The history of the maps of Cairo for your research starts in 1808 with
the publication of the Description de l'Egypte. The following printed
maps are from 1846, 1858 and 1868. From this date, Ismaïl Pacha starts a
lot of public works in the future downtown Cairo... you will find all
the information, reproduction and lists of maps in :
Jean-Luc ARNAUD, Le Caire, mise en place d'une ville moderne 1867-1907,
Arles, Actes Sud, 1998.
Jean-Luc ARNAUD, Cartographie de l'Egypte, supplément à la lettre n°
16, Cairo, CEDEJ, 1989.
And also in several publications, mainly in French but also in English.
For the list of my publication see :
http://telemme.mmsh.univ-aix.fr/membres/Jean-Luc_Arnaud
Jean-Luc Arnaud
Senior researcher at CNRS
Head of CartoMundi
For CartoMundi : http://cartomundi.eu
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Subject: Re: Looking for historic maps of Tahrir Square in Downtown Cairo
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 21:58:26 -0700
From: Jon McConnel <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
Kathy,
The Baedeker guidebook (6th ed.), with the map noted by Tim, is
available via Google Books --
http://books.google.com/books?id=AQFBAAAAYAAJ&dq=cairo%20map&pg=PA30-IA1#v=onepage&q=cairo%20map&f=false
Your student may find it useful to make inquiries with the Rare Books
and Special Collections Library at American University in Cairo. They
should at least be able help with what materials may exist, even if
access remains a problem.
http://library.aucegypt.edu/rbscl/access/access_use.html
Jon McConnel
Whatcom Community College
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Angie Cope, American Geographical
Society Library, UW Milwaukee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Looking for historic maps of Tahrir Square in Downtown
> Cairo
> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:29:49 -0700
> From: timross <[log in to unmask]>
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> To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
> <[log in to unmask]>
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>
>
> Kathy,
>
> WAML's Occasional Paper no. 4, Index to Early Twentieth Century City
> Plans Appearing in Guidebooks... lists a map of Cairo at 1:12,300,
> which appears in the Baedeker guidebook Egypt, Lower & Upper
> Egypt...7th ed, 1913. Unfortunately, holdings info isn't provided as
> to which libraries hold this guidebook, but with luck someone on this
> list will have it and can provide a copy of the map.
>
> Tim
>
>
> Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee wrote:
>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Looking for historic maps of Tahrir Square in Downtown Cairo
>> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:41:09 -0700
>> From: Kathy Stroud <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
>> <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>>
>> All,
>>
>> I'm working with a Landscape Architecture Student who has a project
>> dealing with Tahrir Square in Downtown Cairo. He is looking for
>> historic maps, possibly as far back as the original design. Our
>> collection is very limited. Does anyone have maps they would be
>> willing to loan us or send us a copy?
>>
>> Below is a little more information about the square:
>>
>> "Tahrir was also known as Midan Ismailiyya, named after Khedive Ismail.
>> The man responsible for designing Tahrir as a part of the greater
>> design of Downtown Cairo was Ali Pasha Mubarak. He studied in Paris
>> between
>> 1844 and 1849, and his compendium/descriptions of Cairo are included
>> in a work called al-Khitat al-Tawfiqiyya al-Jadida."
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> --
>> Kathy Stroud
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