Afghanistan / contributor Great Britain, War Office, General Staff, Geographical Section.

“Description Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Shows railway, road and telegraph lines. "War Office, June 1912". Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image”.

“Afghanistan : This map of Afghanistan was produced by the Geographical Section of the General Staff of the British Army and issued by the War Office in London in January 1912. It gives the names and locations of districts, mountains, passes, and sources of water. Relief is shown by contours and heights are given in feet. Colors, as explained in the key on the right side of the map, are used to indicate altitude, with the heights shown ranging from sea level to 25,000 feet (7,620 meters) and higher. The map devotes particular attention to transportation and communications networks in the parts of British India and the Russian Empire adjacent to Afghanistan. Railroads (both operational and under construction or planned) are marked, with the different Russian and Indian gauges indicated with different lines and symbols. Also shown are roads and telegraph lines”—copied from website.

The Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item.

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