The Survey of Egypt, 1910, 1:1,000,000, Sheet 5 (detail 1, close-up)
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Found while cleaning out an old map cabinet: oceans of just about nothing, punctuated by signs of a minimal landscape. Soiled, creased, tears, dusty. Thumb-print and fading pencil marks, from someone who stared at this map a long time ago.
Details from a topographic map of Egypt in 6 sheets, published by The Survey of Egypt in 1910, scale 1:1,000,000.
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The Survey of Egypt, 1910, 1:1,000,000, Sheet 5 (detail 1)
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The Survey of Egypt, 1910, 1:1,000,000, Sheet 1 (detail 1)
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The Survey of Egypt, 1910, 1:1,000,000, Sheet 1 (detail 2)
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Note the type leaking over the map border (Mediterranean, Lake Borollos, Gharbia)
The Survey of Egypt, 1910, 1:1,000,000, Sheet 1 (detail 3 – close-up)
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Note the type leaking over the map border (Mediterranean, Lake Borollos, Gharbia)
The Survey of Egypt, 1910, 1:1,000,000, Sheet 1 (detail 3)
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The Survey of Egypt, 1910, 1:1,000,000, Sheet 3 (detail 1 – close-up)
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The Survey of Egypt, 1910, 1:1,000,000, Sheet 3 (detail 1)
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The Survey of Egypt, 1910, 1:1,000,000, Sheet 5 (detail 2)
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The Survey of Egypt, 1910, 1:1,000,000, Sheet 6 (detail 1)
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