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Subject: [ANZMapS] RE: more on identification of 19th century mapset of
Shanghai area.
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 07:49:48 +0000
From: Brendan Whyte <[log in to unmask]>
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A month ago, I sought information on a set of untitled, undated 19th
century maps of the Shanghai area.
Thanks to Francis Herbert (ex RGS) and Andrew Janes (UK Naional
Archives), and Christian Henriot (Virtual Shanghai project), we have now
been able to identify, catalogue and scan them. A dated watermark in the
paper of the maps (Francis' suggestion to look for) helped prove that
they are original 1865 maps and not later facsimiles as I originlaly
thought (given their excellent condition).
The maps are
Military plan of the country around Shanghai from surveys made in 1862,
63, 64, 65 by Lieut. Col. Gordon...
That's Charles "Chinese" Gordon, who was defending Shanghai from the
Taiping rebellion at the time, and went on to get himself killed in
Khartoum, which led to the sending of a NSW contingent to the Sudan
under Kitchener's command. So the maps have an Australian connection too.
It appears that the National Library of Australia holds the only
(catalogued) copy of these maps, and the only looseleaf copy, outside
the UK National Archive's bound copy.
The map set, including the two titled and dated index/overview sheets
[which we discovered were already catlaogued, but were separated from
the main maps, so had no identifiable connection to them] have been
scanned and uploaded today. Scans and catalogue record are at:
http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3490166
Thanks again to Francis, Andrew and Christian for their efforts, and I
hope this most interesting set is useful to cartophiles and historians.
Copies can be ordered via the catlaogue record: $16.50 per sheet on
paper, colour, original size, worldwide p&p included; $45 per image on
CD of ftp, 300dpi tiff , worldwide p&p included.
Dr Brendan Whyte
Assistant Curator of Maps
National Library of Australia
> > > -------- Original Message --------
> > > Subject: [ANZMapS] more on identification of 19th century mapset of
> > > Shanghai area.
> > > Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 02:30:36 +0000
> > > From: Brendan Whyte
> > > Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
> > > To: mapsL , Carto-soc , AMC
> > >
> > > More info:
> > > Our sheet 32 look a lot like this 1862-3 map (identical detail, but
> > this sheet has cropped the information to the west, whereas our sheet
> > 32, extends
> > > the detail further
> > west)
> > http://www.virtualshanghai.net/Asset/Preview/vcMap_ID-728_No-1.jpeg
> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > We have discovered an interesting 19th-century map series of the
> > region about Shanghai in our collection.
> > >
> > > The series is in English (so is presumably British in origin) but
> > > has
> > no title/publisher/date information (perhaps there was a separate
> > title
> > sheet?)
> > > The sheets cover 1degree of longitude and 30 minutes of latitude.
> > > The
> > scale bar gives me 10 miles = 6 3/16 inches, so 1:102,400 exactly (and
> > > the only hits I get for that ratio are lots of medical journal
> > > articles!)
> > >
> > > We have sheets 22, 23- 26-28, 30-32 & 34-36 which form a block
> > covering Shanghai, Suzhou and surrounds. The margins of the sheets all
> > give the
> > > numbers of any adjoining sheets, so we assume sheeets 21, 25, 29 &
> > > 39
> > may also have existed, although in some cases the detail on the sheets
> > we hold
> > > ends before the margin, so it's hard to know if these other sheets
> > were ever actually produced.
> > >
> > > Detial is confined to river/canal courses, and traver ses
> > along roads/tracks, but no other 'interior' detail. No railways are
> > shown, and the
> > > sheet with Shanghai (#32) does not name the foreign settlements, but
> > does indicate town development outside the old city walls, hence an
> > assumed date
> > > of 1860s-1890s.
> > >
> > > Our copies have small red oval ownership stamps, with 3 lines of
> > text: "C. of I. / A.1 8 May 1905 M. / Received"
> > >
> > > Can anyone help identify this series/set: title, publisher, date?
> > >
> > > And can anyone offer help as to who/what "C of I / A M" was?
> > Committee of Intelligence/India? Adjutant-Major?
> > >
> > > Dr Brendan Whyte
> > > Assistant Curator of Maps
> > > National Library of Australia
> > > Parkes Place
> > > Parkes ACT 2600
> > > AUSTRALIA
> > > Ph: +61 2 6262 1192; Fax: +61 2 6262 1653 [log in to unmask]
> > > http://www.nla.gov.au/map/index.html
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