Asia: South Western Sheet 1858

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Old map of Afghanistan, Bahrain, Cyprus, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Islamic Republic of, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen.

day Iran), Afghanistan, and Baluchistan (present-day Iran and Pakistan) was copyrighted in 1858 by J.H. Colton & Company of New York. Coloring is used to indicate borders and certain provinces or settled areas. The map shows cities, mountains, and roads, and includes some notes on topographical features. The old Qatari city of al-Zabarah is shown. The map appeared in other editions of Colton's General Atlas and reflects the general level of geographic knowledge of the Middle East in mid-19th-century America. J.H. Colton & Company was founded in New York City, most likely in 1831, by Joseph Hutchins Colton (1800--93), a Massachusetts native who had only a basic education and little or no formal training in geography or cartography. Colton built the firm into a major publisher of maps and atlases by purchasing the copyrights to other maps and republishing them before it began creating its own maps and atlases. In the 1850s, the firm became the G.W. & C.B. Colton Company, after Colton brought his sons, George Woolworth Colton (1827--1901) and Charles B. Colton (1832--1916), into the business. As in this example, virtually all Colton maps were framed in decorative borders of intertwining vines, flowers, or geometric shapes. The work was entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1858 in the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York.
Created by G. Woolworth (George Woolworth) Colton, J.H. Colton & Company in 1858.

Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
"Scale around 1:45,000,000"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
Original resource extent: 1 map ; 37 x 30 centimeters.
Original resource at: Qatar National Library.
Content in English.
Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Asia: South Western Sheet 1858

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