Maps Collection (#7)

Mother and daughter with map, Bonjour Papa! WW1
Mother and daughter examine a map to see where daddy is on the Western Front -- Bonjour Papa! 1917

Advertisement for European hotels 1929
Advertisement for European hotels in the UK, Spain, France and Belgium. 1929

Officers desk, BAOR, Braunschweig, Germany
Officers desk in an office with charts and maps on the wall, British Army of the Rhine, near Braunschweig (Brunswick), Lower Saxony, in postwar Germany. Date: circa 1946

Map to the nightlife of London, 1965
A handdrawn pullout map of Soho, Leicester Square and the West End as far as Hyde Park, showing theatres, cinemas and restaurants in Central London

Poster, Air France. 20th century

Cover design, Fly to the East, showing destinations in India, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Singapore, Australia and Tasmania. 20th century

Poster, Night Telegraph Letters. 20th century

Poster, Use the Transatlantic Telephone, Europe Welcomes You, designed by Eric C Owen. 1937

Poster, Telegrams to Europe at Half Rates. 20th century

Poster, The Telephone in Business, showing a female telephone operator and a map of England. 20th century

Poster, Mails for East and South Africa, India, Malaya etc. 20th century

Music cover, Uncle Sammy March, Two Step, by Abe Holzmann. 1904

Two women police officers giving directions, London
Two women police officers giving directions to a man, with the aid of a map, London. Date: circa 1960s

Adventure of the Priory School, Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, the Adventure of the Priory School, a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle. Sketch map showing the locality. Date: 1904

Three boys in schoolroom on a Christmas card
Three boys in sailor suits in a schoolroom on a Christmas card -- one of them is drawing their teachers face on the blackboard. Date: circa 1890s

Festival of Britain map 1951
A map showing the location of the Festival of Britain. Date: 1951

Map / Europe / Noah 1778
Map showing the colonies containing descendants of Noah Date: 1778

Map of Palma, Gomera and Hierro, Canary Islands
Map of Palma, Gomera and Hierro (or Ferro), Canary Islands, with soundings in fathoms. Date: 1837

Map of Naos and Arrecife, Lanzarote, Canary Islands
Map of the ports of Naos and Arrecife, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, surveyed by the Spanish Navy in 1853, with outer soundings from a survey of 1835, updated in 1880. Date: 1881

Map of the Canary Archipelago, showing the seven islands, Hierro, La Palma, Gomera, Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, as well as the two smaller islands, Graciosa and Alegranza

Map / Asia / China C1880
China Proper showing the individual provinces, and underlining names of ports open to foreign trade Date: circa 1880

Ptolemaeus system Date: 2nd century AD

Picture No. 11792554
Bethnal Green workhouse map

Mark Twain Hotel and map, Elmira, New York State, USA. Date: 1930s

Cartoon, An easy target, WW1
Cartoon, An easy target. A German sailor tells his Commandant that a merchant ship has stopped near them. The Commandant replies that in that case hes not likely to miss it. Date: 1916

Cartoon, The interrupted conference, WW1
Cartoon, The interrupted conference. A group of people look at a map, and a man says what Napoleon would have done

Large globe, PanAm terminal, Miami, Florida, USA
People looking at a large globe on display in the lobby of the Pan-American Airways terminal in Miami, Florida, USA. Date: 1936

Advertisement, Great Rock Island Route, Chicago, USA
Advertisement for the Great Rock Island Route, Chicago, USA, with a map of railway routes in the Chicago area. Date: 1885

Why Englands Food is Safe, WW1
Why Englands Food is Safe, showing how the majority of food supplies come from countries who are not on the side of the enemy during the First World War. Date: 1914

Chelsea pensioners discuss the war, WW1
Chelsea veterans discussing the position of the opposing armies in August 1914. Date: 1914

VILANOVA i PIERA, Joan (1821-1893). Agronomic map of Madrid municipal area. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Instituto Geol󧩣 o y Minero de Espa

French map of the city of Barcelona (1706). SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona. Barcelona City History Museum

Map of the Kingdom of Naples. 1597-1568. Illustration from the work Geografia, cio鬠 Descrittione universale de la terra, edited in Venice by Giovanni Battista and Giorgio Galignani. SPAIN

Portrait of Magalhaes. Spanish anonymous
MAGELLAND, Ferdinand (1480-1521). Portuguese navigator and discoverer. Oil on canvas

Civitatis Orbis Terrarum. Ghent
BRAUN, George (1541-1622). Civitatis Orbis Terrarum (Theatrum orbis terrarum). 1572-1617. Ghent (1572). Etching. SPAIN. CASTILE AND LEON. Salamanca. Salamanca University Library

Civitatis Orbis Terrarum. Ecija
BRAUN, George (1541-1622). Civitatis Orbis Terrarum (Theatrum orbis terrarum). 1572-1617. Ecija (1567). Etching. SPAIN. CASTILE AND LEON. Salamanca. Salamanca University Library

Civitatis Orbis Terrarum. London
BRAUN, George (1541-1622). Civitatis Orbis Terrarum (Theatrum orbis terrarum). 1572-1617. London. Detail. Etching. SPAIN. CASTILE AND LEON. Salamanca. Salamanca University Library

Atlas Novus. Asia, 17th c Damascus
BLAEU, Jan (1596-1673). Atlas Novus or Atlas Maior. 1635 - 1665. Asia noviter delineata. Map of Asia printed in Amsterdam ca. 1635. Detail with view of the city of Damasco. Etching. SPAIN. CATALONIA

HMS Titania, British ship, Christmas card from Far East
HMS Titania, British ship, Christmas card from the Far East, with hands across the sea. Date: circa 1910s

British observation post in a windmill, WW1
A Flanders windmill taken over by the British Army as an observation post

Dutch scouts on a cycling trek, Netherlands, checking their map

Boy scouts studying a map, Athens, Greece. They are on their first wood badge course. Date: 1947

Boy scouts on skiing activity in Finland
Boy scouts on a skiing activity in Finland

Postcard, Greetings from Hungary
Postcard with map of Europe and airline routes to and from Budapest, Greetings from Hungary (Hungarian Air Transport). Date: circa 1960s

Flagging his home town at the Eagle Hut, WW1
An American sailor sticks a flag into a huge map adorning the wall of the Eagle Hut in Aldwych, London, in order so he may meet other American soldiers and sailors from the same area

Map of London with fire stations marked, Lambeth HQ
Map of London with all the fire stations marked, in the control room at Lambeth HQ

Map of YMCA shelters around London during WW1
A map showing the various YMCA huts available for soldiers and sailors in the capital on leave during the First World War, though The Graphic magazine, who published this picture

John More, clergyman and cartographer
John More (?-1592), Fellow of Christs College, Cambridge, minister of St Andrews Church, Norwich, and cartographer. He worked for many years on a map of Canaan, based on biblical research

Battalion commander explaining the next move
Battalion commander and his soldiers having a temporary rest in a derelict building while being instructed where their next move will be using a field map of the district. Date: 1917

Bystander magazine competition, When Will the War End?
Picture 2 of 2 (see 10731631 for 1st). Map of Europe to accompany the Bystander magazines war forecast competition, run in August 1915, with a closing date of 30 September that year

Two foldout Daily Mail Military Maps Numbers - WWI era
Two foldout Daily Mail Military Maps Numbers 1 and 2. No. 1 - The Franco-Belgian & German Frontiers, Scale 12 Miles to the Inch. No. 2 - Austro-German & Russian Frontiers, Scale 24 Miles to the Inch

Trench maps belonging to Sergeant Ernest Blaikley
Trench maps belonging to 2903 Sergeant ERNEST BLAIKLEY, 28th Battalion London Regiment (Artists Rifles) (1885-1965). Attached S.O. & S

WWI photo frame showing the Eastern Front
First World War photo frame showing the Eastern Front with names of Generals and Allied Powers (1914-18) around the edge. Includes maps of Bulgaria, Greece, Asia Minor, Syria and Egypt.. Trench Art

Eastern Front photo frame, WW1
First World War photo frame showing the Eastern Front with names of Generals and Allied Powers (1914-1918) around the edge. Includes maps of Bulgaria, Greece, Asia Minor, Syria and Egypt. Trench Art

Capt Sir William Fraser, Bar F.R.S, (d.1818), one of the Elder Brethren of Trinity House

Map with clocks at Baden Powell House, London
A modern map with clocks showing the time in different parts of the globe at Baden Powell House, South Kensington, London. Above it are the words: From All Corners of the Earth You Have Journeyed

The Fighting Line in Flanders, 1915
Areas of possession between the German and Allied armies on the Western front by the autumn of 1915

An airmans camera 1917
Efficiency in the French Army: Apparatus for taking photographs from an aeroplanes

Womens home front ambulance service 1917
Owing to the shorage of male labour, the London County Council established a Womens ambulance service, quailfied in first aid and competent motor drivers

Winter dispatch carrying on the Western Front 1917
Corporal Newsham, a British Press despatch rider, studying a map on his motorcycle at Rollancourt in northern France during the First World War

British roads damaged by military traffic, WW1
A map of the Southern counties of Britain prepared by the Automobile Association and the Motor Union to indicate the stretches of road extensively damaged by the passage of military traffic

Russo-German naval action in the Baltic, WW1
Russo-German naval action in the Baltic during the First World War which led to the destruction of a German destroyer and mine layer and the torpedoing of a German pre-dreadnought battleship

How to avoid the submarine pirate by G. H. Davis
How to avoid the submarine pirate during the First World War. The advantage of showing a clean pair of heels and other devices for checkmating the submarine. Date: 1915

RAF personnel marking German positions, WW1
RAF pilots and observers marking German positions in preparation for a raid, on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1918

Pilot and observer about to set out, Western Front, WW1
A British pilot and his observer getting instructions through their CO via photographs and maps before setting out for the German lines on the Western Front in France during World War One

New element in British Navy by G. H. Davis
The new element in the British Navy: how the four corners of the Empire are combining to support the central Home Navy

Contour map of Western Front by G. H. Davis
The Western Front: a contour map showing the area of the general Allied offensive at this stage of the Second World War

Men in basket of observation balloon, WW1
Two men with telephones and maps in the basket of an RFA observation balloon on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Mine problem in North Sea by G. H. Davis
The mine problem in the North Sea. The mine layer at work, showing the way in which the mine is held below the water and how it is exploded by a passing ship

Zeppelin airship flights by night, by G. H. Davis
The possibilities of Zeppelin airship flights by night. Showing a 360 mile route from Heligoland to Selby, and an inset map with various routes marked

Hidden lesson of the Mauretanias record by G. H. Davis
The hidden lesson of the Mauretanias record. Showing the Cunard liner Mauretania in grey war paint, being convoyed across the Atlantic by a battleship cruiser

Map of Japanese invasion receding by G. H. Davis
A pictorial map of the Pacific area, showing how the wave of Japanese invasion receded as a result of the Allied strategy during the Second World War

Allies victory of the Rhine by G. H. Davis
The Allies victory of the Rhine during the Second World War: from Wesel to Coblenz. A birds eye map of the terrain, with an additional map from Cologne to Mainz. Date: 1945

Battle of the Philippines by G. H. Davis
The crushing rout of the Japanese Navy in the Battle of the Philippines during the Second World War. A map of the operations

Allied landings in southern France by G. H. Davis
The scene of successful Allied landings in southern France during the Second World War: a pictorial map from coasts to mountains. Date: 1944

British offensive on Western Front by G. H. Davis
The British offensive on the Western Front during the Second World War: troops in action, and a map of the Normandy battle zone. Date: 1944

Cherbourg, scene of victory, by G. H. Davis
Cherbourg -- scene of Allied first decisive victory in France during the Second World War. A panoramic map of Cotentin Peninsula with Cherbourg, as viewed from the northern Channel approaches

Invasion coast of Normandy by G. H. Davis
The invasion coast of Normandy, showing the terrain of operations during the Second World War. A panoramic map of the coastal regions from Cap Gris Nez to the Cherbourg Peninsula. Date: 1944

Onward roads to Rome by G. H. Davis
The onward roads to Rome: the terrain of spectacular advances during the Second World War. A panoramic map from the Liri Valley and Pontine Marshes, showing the main highways to Rome. Date: 1944

Coastline from Denmark to Ushant by G. H. Davis
From sandy dunes to rocky cliffs: the coastline from Denmark to Ushant (Brittany), a distance of about 1200 miles

Map of the Crimean peninsula by G. H. Davis
Russias reconquest of the Crimea during the Second World War. A pictorial map of the Crimean peninsula, showing principal towns, heights and communications. Date: 1944

Russian advance in Balkans by G. H. Davis
Russias advance in the Balkans during the Second World War: a pictorial map of the terrain. The Eastern Balkans and Carpathian passes: a map showing mountain passes, railways and oilfields. Date: 1944

German plants raided by Allied bombing, by G. H. Davis
Raided by Allied bomber operations during the Second World War: Germanys principal aircraft and component plants, and what they manufacture. Date: 1944

Map of Sardinia by G. H. Davis
A contour map of Sardinia, showing airfields and seaplane bases during the Second World War. The island was experiencing concentrated bombing by the Allied Strategic Air Force. Date: 1943

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