Lower Mesopotamia map by the Survey of India
Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 7 (Oversized), Folder: 5
Identifier: GTM-20230717
One map titled "Lower Mesopotamia" printed in Dehradun, India, by the Survey of India in 1914. One of 500 printed copies that were issued to British staff officers on the eve of the Mesopotamian Campaign and the invasion of Ottoman Iraq. It depicts central and southern Iraq, Kuwait, southwestern Persia, and the head of the Arabian Gulf.
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0.1 Cubic Feet (1 oversized folder)
English
Purchased from Peter Harrington, London, 2023.
The map has been rehoused in an acid-free oversized folder.
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository