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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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