The Daily Mail commercial map of Africa.

Description:

Includes inset maps: "Africa before the scramble", which shows European possessions in 1884 before the Berlin Congress, and comparison map of England drawn at the same scale showing main railway lines. Shows the Cape-Cairo Railway and other existing and proposed railways, steamship routes, colonial possessions, navigable waters, dense forests with abundant rainfall, completed and uncompleted telegraph lines, general locations of natural resources, and population density by country. Date based on text in map, "Limit of Free Commercial Zone 1899". 1 map: col.; 52 x 52 cm.

Creator:

George Philip & Son

Provider:

University of Michigan

Collection:

07d-01

Resource Class:

Maps

Subject:

Railroads

Temporal Coverage:

1884

Spatial Coverage:

Africa

Rights:

This map is in the public domain.

Rights Holder:

Please attribute access and use of this digitized map to the Stephen S. Clark Library, University of Michigan Library. https://www.lib.umich.edu/about-us/policies/copyright-policy

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

JPEG

More details at:

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clark1ic/x-004267852/39015091193907