Letts's bird's eye view of the approaches to India / (Record no. 41137)

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Transcribing agency ACKU
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
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Geographic area code a-af---
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number G7631.
Item number A3.
Class number P39 1940
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Payne, W. H.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Letts's bird's eye view of the approaches to India /
Statement of responsibility, etc contributor Payne, W. H.
255 ## - CARTOGRAPHIC MATHEMATICAL DATA
Statement of scale Scale not given.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc London :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Letts, Son & Co.,
Date of publication, distribution, etc [1940?]
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 1 map :
Other physical details color illustration ;
Dimensions 49 x 72 cm.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note “Description Relief shown pictorially. Shows from Russian territory to Indus river valley. Mounted on cloth backing. "Flags for sicking in this view, 6d. per packet." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image”.
General note “Letts's Bird's Eye View of the Approaches to India : This panoramic map dramatizes the approaches to British India through Afghanistan by offering a bird’s-eye view of the mountainous territory between the then-Soviet Union and the Indus River valley (present-day Pakistan). The map was produced, probably in the 1920s, by Letts, a famous London stationer and publisher of diaries that was established in 1796 by John Letts. The map was clearly intended for hobbyists and armchair strategists who, as advertised, could buy for six pence a packet of flags for sticking into the map to plan or follow military movements. In the foreground are two British soldiers in uniform, overlooking the Indus River. Geographic features seen in the distance below include the Khyber Pass, the city of Jalālābād, the Amudar’ya River that formed part of the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union, the Murgab River in present-day Turkmenistan, and the disputed border between Russia (i.e., the Soviet Union) and Afghanistan. Fear of a Russian attack on India through Afghanistan was a major influence on British strategic planning in the 19th century, and one that persisted into the first half of the 20th century”—copied from website.
General note The Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item.
546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE
Language note English
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Afghanistan – Maps.
Geographic name South Asia – Maps.
856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic format type PDF
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_g7631_a3_p39_1940">https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_g7631_a3_p39_1940</a>
Public note Scanned for ACKU.
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Library of Congress Classification
Koha item type Map
Call number prefix azu_acku_g7631_a3_p39_1940
Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Date acquired Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Price effective from Koha item type Public note
    Library of Congress Classification     Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University 28/11/2017   G7631.A3.P39 1940 3ACKU000507201 28/11/2017 28/11/2017 Map The digital file donated from Library of Congress-World Digital Library, PDF is available in ACKU.