The Times Map of British South Africa, the Transvaal and Orange Free State

Place Africa: South Africa
Accession Number AWM2022.10.734
Map call number G8501.s55
Collection type Digitised Collection
Record type Item
Item count 1
Object type Map
Physical description 3 Image/s captured
Maker The Times
Place made United Kingdom: England, Greater London, London
Date made [1899]
Conflict South Africa, 1899-1902 (Boer War)
Source credit to This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government.
Description

A map titled '"The Times" Map of British South Africa, The Transvaal and Orange Free State' covering the area between Cape Town and Bulawayo, South Africa. Scale 1:2,500,000, The Times Office. Shows administrative boundaries, roads, telegraph lines, railways, populated places, and steamship routes. Includes five inset maps titled 'Map of Natal from Pietermaraitzburg to Newcastle', 'Witwatersrand', 'Mafeking District', 'The South Western Frontier' and a comparative map of Wales. Includes railway distances and heights above sea level of principal locations. Adhered to the reverse is a booklet printed with '"The Times" War Map of South Africa'.

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