Dr. Oscar I. Norwich collection of maps of Africa and its islands, 1486 - ca. 1865
- Physical description
- 312 items.
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Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Norwich, Oscar I., collector.
- Contributor
- Norwich, Rose.
Contents/Summary
- Finding aid
- Finding aid available online
- Summary
- The collection contains 312 maps of Africa and its islands collected by Oscar I. Norwich, and includes sea charts and maps of Southern Africa; the Cape of Good Hope; North, East, and West Africa; islands, ports, and town plans. The majority of the maps are loose items, but a certain number are from rare, published atlases; a few were published in travel books.
Subjects
- Subject
- Norwich, Oscar I. > Map collections.
- Cartography > Africa > History.
- Africa > Maps.
Bibliographic information
- Earliest possible date
- 1486
- Latest possible date
- 1865
- Title Variation
- Norwich collection of maps of Africa and its islands
- Source
- Purchased in part with the support of the William R. & Yvonne E. Jacobson Africana Collections Program, 2002. Accession 2007-083.
- Note
- Dr. Oscar I. Norwich of Johannesburg, South Africa, collected maps, both printed and manuscript, for more than thirty-five years.
- Cumulative index or finding aid
- Finding aid available online.
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