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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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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:
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> 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]>
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>
> 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
> David and Nancy Petrone Map/GIS Librarian
> Knight Library
> 1299 University of Oregon
> Eugene, OR 97403-1299
> 541-346-3051
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Tim Ross, Map & Reference Librarian
Koerner Library, Univ. of British Columbia
1958 Main Mall, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z2
Phone: (604) 822-6191 Fax: (604) 822-9122
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