22 10 258 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Network Graph of Routes from London to Europe Description An account of the resource &lt;iframe width="500" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://fusiontables.google.com/embedviz?containerId=googft-gviz-canvas&amp;amp;viz=GVIZ&amp;amp;t=GRAPH&amp;amp;gc=false&amp;amp;gd=true&amp;amp;sdb=1&amp;amp;rmax=100000&amp;amp;q=select+col0%2C+col7%2C+col5+from+1SNUaAPFfkqRkXQBNgMbpgFWupplO2VrRPU_X9Uev&amp;amp;qrs=+where+col0+%3E%3D+&amp;amp;qre=+and+col0+%3C%3D+&amp;amp;qe=&amp;amp;uiversion=2&amp;amp;state=%7B%22ps%22%3A%221_9_-3_-g_3_-q_1d_y_-1g_3_t_b_-2f_18_-1t_1c_s_11_-2i_e_-2b_-1z_1_-20_-8_m_-1g_-13_1m_a_-39_7_1b_-1i_1o_z_t_o_-1k_-1t_0_-28_h_1s_15_-3k_n_-s_-22_5_-2q_5_11_-2q_1t_4_-31_w_u_-n_-2y_c_-2c_1i_g_-v_-1c_15_-15_2l_1f_16_2x_j_-q_32_17_-2c_30_h_-21_-1b_25_r_-1n_a_-1c_s_x_e_-1i_8_-a_t_1w_-12_-c_q_-1k_-k_1q_-29_-r_19_-28_2c_1j_-2i_y_22_c_w_1a_-1n_2g_1k_12_-m_1l_8_-4b_i_-7_2n_6_2d_-1i_r_1f_-2z_1p_8_-1v_16_-18_-2n_20_t_-17_1i_-r_-2j_1t_-33_-11_f_-2h_-19_21_-9_-1e_d_-2n_-q_z_-1t_i_10_-t_c_l_-31_-1l_1u_1_j_2_-1e_24_1b_-n_23_24_-u_45_1n_14_1k_1h_9_2c_1g_g_23_12_-f_3f_k_-3_3m_1d_22_38_1e_1r_3o_1c_2k_3u_w_-3m_2e_p_-17_10_b_-2z_2e_14_-1l_3j_1z_1u_-40_28_a_-52_1r_1g_-4b_27_-y_4w_29_35_-1j_1y_1t_k_26_-1_1w_1v_1v_v_1x_1t_16_23_1n_1f_13_4_43_v_-46_31_%22%2C%22cx%22%3A-26.429884908618888%2C%22cy%22%3A-4.7673803687051315%2C%22sw%22%3A462.17137388777576%2C%22sh%22%3A562.1554680180232%2C%22z%22%3A0.7330495246380059%7D&amp;amp;gco_forceIFrame=true&amp;amp;gco_hasLabelsColumn=true&amp;amp;width=500&amp;amp;height=300"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt; Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tourism, Proximity and British Perceptions of France and Germany Before the First World War Description An account of the resource This collection explores British perceptions of France and Germany before the First World War, and how they were influenced by proximity, both in terms of simple distance and in terms of how easy it was to travel there. There are four elements (one of which isn't a historical map). <br />The first is a graphical representation of the quickest routes from London to different places in Europe, as advised by Thomas Cook and Son travel agents in 1913, and how long it would take to travel to each destination. These graphs give us a sense of how far places in Europe actually were from London in 1913 (admittedly a limited sense given I haven’t found useful information on the prices of these journeys, or how many times a day they ran). They also show which places routes ran through, thus showing which places travelllers would be familiar with simply by having to frequently pass through.<br />The second map is a cartoon map of Europe made in 1900. It supposedly shows the different countries responding to Britain’s war in South Africa. It is interesting for how France—at the time far from an ally—is shown as far less threatening than Germany, which in turn is less threatening than Russia. It is interesting to apply information from the previous element to this one (if we assume that travel patterns in Europe had not radically changed between 1900 and 1913). The relative proximity of France, and number of routes through Paris, perhaps meant that more people had been there, and did not find it excessively foreign or sinister, while the distantness of Russia (Moscow is 102 hours from London) arguably result in it being depicted as a terrifying, autocratic octopus (a depiction surely grounded in common British stereotypes and attitudes). <br />The third element seeks to answer a question posed by the comparison of the first and second. The first element shows that Germany was not very distant, and that many routes passed through it, especially through Cologne. Yet the second shows that Germany seemed to be more foreign and threatening than France. The third element is a map of Europe made in 1880. It labels western Germany—the Rhineland that accounts for so many nodes in the first element—“Germany,” and the rest of the German Empire “Prussia.” While it was probably the result of parsimonious atlas makers reusing pre-unification plates, the existence of such a map (and of other examples, which are hyperlinked), suggests that the British maintained a mental distinction between the Germany they encountered and the threatening, militaristic Prussia they did not. Either that map echoes a distinction that was already salient, or it and others helped to create or maintain such a distinction. It is no accident that Germany is represented in element two by the Kaiser eagerly stockpiling battleships, echoing a pre-unification cartoon map of <a href="http://maps.bpl.org/id/16826">Prussia</a>, in which that state is embodied by the Kaiser and an armed and dangerous Bismark.<br />The last element is a fragment of a map of Paris from an English language guidebook published in 1878. It gives us a loose sense of what sort of places would have grounded British perceptions of the French capital. Specifically, government buildings feature prominently, suggesting that visiting Paris in some way entailed visiting the French state, and perhaps coming to understand it as similar to the British state. One might wonder whether visitors to Berlin would have had the same response to the German state, had many people visited Berlin. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Routes from London to Europe in 1913 Description An account of the resource <iframe src="https://fusiontables.google.com/embedviz?containerId=googft-gviz-canvas&amp;viz=GVIZ&amp;t=GRAPH&amp;gc=false&amp;gd=true&amp;sdb=1&amp;rmax=100000&amp;q=select+col0%2C+col7%2C+col5+from+1fBAMI2aR3EbXZNfk-f38gQ2HwkSewgOkoCCAcD62&amp;qrs=+where+col0+%3E%3D+&amp;qre=+and+col0+%3C%3D+&amp;qe=&amp;uiversion=2&amp;state=%7B%22ps%22%3A%221_n_r_6_j_-1i_-1a_6_-h_1d_1a_2o_t_5_-1p_n_1f_32_5_1m_14_-1h_o_-7_h_4_c_1y_u_3n_a_e_2j_-n_y_-i_-2n_0_12_25_h_-w_p_12_3z_13_1_1r_1g_g_-s_-2_l_-25_1d_i_-19_16_1e_2e_-4_w_-19_7_18_w_14_1v_-2x_-z_9_-2x_-3a_1q_-33_-1r_k_-38_c_17_m_-g_t_1z_1_1h_-1b_-f_s_1y_q_v_-h_-e_z_5_13_1p_-9_-22_1k_2_-1p_1i_-2d_-2_7_-1i_1u_b_-1i_-2o_1y_-2n_n_f_1k_-m_1d_4p_5_1r_-2m_-1z_d_39_-1h_19_3d_15_2_2a_g_1o_20_-n_r_1s_b_1b_27_1y_1c_6_-z_p_h_1g_3_1e_w_1n_f_-26_16_-m_-1u_1g_-13_-26_1l_x_-2b_x_-b_-u_1j_-2d_-u_20_-1t_-4_15_-44_-21_c_-w_-3e_10_-18_-3e_24_-2e_-2d_q_-24_-2j_1u_-3y_-10_1s_-3g_-2g_8_-3r_-3n_a_-3f_-42_1t_-47_-4a_m_-2v_25_1w_-1r_-1x_21_-2c_e_1x_-3q_-f_13_4f_1r_26_5f_5_11_4q_1d_14_-4u_-28_1z_3t_-20_28_-f_-3i_23_-2a_-1m_29_-4_-3g_27_5_-38_22_-4r_-x_25_-3e_2s_%22%2C%22cx%22%3A-1.5391183057145374%2C%22cy%22%3A-53.24651890508633%2C%22sw%22%3A550.2011015371776%2C%22sh%22%3A472.21309493299816%2C%22z%22%3A0.7490675379202794%7D&amp;gco_forceIFrame=true&amp;gco_hasLabelsColumn=true&amp;width=500&amp;height=300" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" width="500" height="300"></iframe> This network graph has as its nodes points at which passengers would embark or disembark trains or boats on long journeys from London to various European destinations, as advised by the table of quickest routes in the index of&nbsp;<em>Cook's Continental Time Table.</em> One can trace the quickest journey back to London by clicking on any destination and following the arrows. This graph shows how British travellers to Europe did so overwhelmingly via a small number of places -- most notably Paris but also Cologne and Basel ("Bale" in the time table). Thus we can see that France, and the French state as encountered in Paris, was very familiar to British travellers. And while the Rhineland was familiar, Prussia and Berlin were distant and passed through relatively seldom. <iframe src="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YXwrcaGqE6rjLcXjIMt34FIvRSccrRPqnReyI5N6hR0/pubchart?oid=1122356638&amp;format=interactive" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" width="600" height="371"></iframe> This map shows most of the data points on the network graph on a modern map of Europe, with the size and colour of the dots indicating distance in hours from London as indicated in Cook's Time Table. Regrettably, to allow Google's geotagging feature to work, it uses modern place names and country names. Those points with more than one dot represent multiple routes taking longer or shorter amounts of time. This kind of scale gives one a more meaningful sense of how far different places in Europe were from London, and thus perhaps how distant and foreign they seemed to British people before the First World War. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Compiled from data in <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015021229151;view=1up;seq=1"><em>Cook's Continental Time Table, Steamship and Air Services, </em>1913.</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Data Visualization Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Continental (but neither of these are historical maps) 1900s 1913 Britain Europe railways transportation transportation network https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/593d0f1c785ab6e62902598e0d9f3054.jpg 679af31f9f8239c431ed42f466286a54 Historical Map Fill out as many of these fields as possible. Required Dublin core fields include Title, Description, Publisher Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Russia in Europe Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~3393~390007:Russian-In-Europe-?sort=Pub_Date%2CPub_List_No_InitialSort&qvq=q:List_No%3D%273007.007%27%22%2B;sort:Pub_Date%2CPub_List_No_InitialSort;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=0&trs=1# Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource http://bl.ocks.org/d/8bb01de62d94bab64d1252bf5a823916 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/7e4f97ae3dcf5c0ace1f639544169c8a.jpg 091103a448f70c6ce9ea3f228d593306 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Surveys Around the World Description An account of the resource A collection of several surveys conducted across the world in the 19th and 20th century. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Christina Shivers Historical Map Fill out as many of these fields as possible. Required Dublin core fields include Title, Description, Publisher Cartographer Theodore Jacoubet, V. Bonnet, J.M. Hacq Type individual map, atlas sheet, book figure, part of bound collection, born-digital Composite Map URL or Unique Identifier http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~291035~90062636 Digital Repository David Rumsey Map Collection Date Published 1836 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Composite: Paris Sheets 3-7, 10-43A, 49-51 Description An account of the resource This map of Paris is a survey conducted in conducted between 1827 and 1836. It was drawn to scale by Theodore Jacoubet and is one of the last maps of a city drawn by an architect. The map is a collection of several sheets; each sheet accounts for anticipated future infrastructural and architectural projects. Subject The topic of the resource Paris Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available N.P. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1836 Type The nature or genre of the resource Historical Map Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant City Map Bodies of Water buildings dimensions line types streets symbol https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/bf5d54bfdb1bd6d63894f930c1f9a445.jpg 557939c656a61a03c79de40b054bd949 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Economic Development of the Tennessee River Region Description An account of the resource This collections seeks to understand how different entities depict the Tennessee River Valley region through mapping. The three maps included are made by three government organizations with profoundly different purposes. The analysis focuses on how natural features, rivers, lakes, and mountains, are represented. These different styles of representation indicate the different points of view of each different agency when it comes to developing the same landscape. Thus, these maps visually represent both the landscape and the economic potential of the region. Historical Map Fill out as many of these fields as possible. Required Dublin core fields include Title, Description, Publisher Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tennessee Valley Area: pictorial map Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Library of Congress Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available U.S. Government Printing Office Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1939 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Tennessee Valley Authority Description An account of the resource This pictorial map, produced by the Tennessee Valley Authority, shows the Tennessee River Valley region with particular emphasis on the proposed work and improvements of the TVA. As the map notes, there is "no scale," nor does it include a compass rose. The map has three major parts: the diagram of the proposed dams along the top of the image, the pictorial map of Tennessee, and an inset of Great Smoky Mountain National Park in the bottom right-hand corner. Taken together, all three parts contribute to a particular understanding of the regional geography. The top diagram shows the location of proposed dams along the Tennessee River with respect to the distance from the mouth and the elevation. This is the product of the Tennessee Valley Authority's work in the region; it's mandate was to provide flood control and generate agricultural and industrial development in the region. The colors of the map serve to emphasize the area under the TVA's domain, highlighting it in a light green while the rest of the land area is a muted cornflower blue. Mountains, hills, state lines, and cities are depicted in brown; roads are white and toponyms are in black. The rivers and title of the map are dark blue. The Great Smoky Mountain inset acknowledges the growing importance of recreation and scenic tourism to the region. The National Park was newly established, and the roads linking Knoxville and Asheville, the two cities on either side of the Appalachians in this area highlight the connectivity, which should enable economic growth, of the mountainous landscape. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Regional; Multi-State dams federal government highways national park natural features pictorial map presidential birth places regional rivers Tennessee transmission lines TVA https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/56efbbb061161d2c1b47aeb43c47d07b.jpg 0948c93462df43ccb66c8ba1f8cb59a5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Surveys Around the World Description An account of the resource A collection of several surveys conducted across the world in the 19th and 20th century. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Christina Shivers Historical Map Fill out as many of these fields as possible. Required Dublin core fields include Title, Description, Publisher Cartographer George Hayward, D.T. Valentine Type individual map, atlas sheet, book figure, part of bound collection, born-digital individual map Call Number G3804.N4:2M3 1852 .M3 URL or Unique Identifier http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/6938092?buttons=y Digital Repository hollis.harvard.edu Date Published 1852 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Map of the city of New York, showing the original high water line and the location of the different farms and estates. Description An account of the resource This map is a survey of the city of New York showing the location of farms, estates, street names and the high water lines. This survey is interesting as it shows the survey lines of the Manhattan grid dashed beneath the boundary lines of original estates and farms as well as the high water line that demarcated the boundaries of the landscape. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1852 Subject The topic of the resource New York City Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Common Council Type The nature or genre of the resource Historical Map Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant City Map estate lines line type property lines streets https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/4f1652302f5477e34c1863ee747c1c58.jpg 7aa1875050577d80a032aaa93e9bed04 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Surveys Around the World Description An account of the resource A collection of several surveys conducted across the world in the 19th and 20th century. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Christina Shivers Historical Map Fill out as many of these fields as possible. Required Dublin core fields include Title, Description, Publisher Cartographer City of Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners Date Published 1908 Type individual map, atlas sheet, book figure, part of bound collection, born-digital individual map Repository Library of Congress URL or Unique Identifier http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4361n.ct001798 Digital Repository hollis,harvard.edu Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Topographic map of the Los Angeles aqueduct and adjacent territory Description An account of the resource This map shows the topographic survey and county lines of the area around the Los Angeles aqueduct as it makes its way from its source at the Long Valley reservoir north of the city down to the city itself. Subject The topic of the resource Los Angleles Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available City of Los Angeles Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1908 Type The nature or genre of the resource individual map Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant regional map aqueduct Bodies of Water Cities county lines pipe lines power lines telephone lines topographic lines towns https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/18657bdfa1b82a910bda51cd0a2010ac.jpg e3bb59d4921c0c80a9da52212adaa446 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Britain Colonial Mapping of Western Palestine in the Ottoman period Description An account of the resource The Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) of Great Britain conducted an extensive survey of Western Palestine from 1872-1877, during the Ottoman period. While the fund was headed by religious figures and academics, there was also involvement from the British government. Essentially, the religious and academic associations of the fund may have served as a front to allow the British government to collect intelligence on the region. For example, the British Foreign Office had documented involvement in the production and funding of the survey project, which increased with the Russo-Turkian War (1877-78). This survey was the most detailed and technologically advanced to date and was ultimately employed by the British in their invasion of Palestine in WWI. In addition to its attention to topographic detail, this mapping project is notable for its area of focus. Unlike other maps produced by Western colonial powers at the time, such as France and Germany, this map focuses exclusively on an area west of the Jordan river. Uncannily, its borders resemble those of the future British Mandate (1920-1948). The survey is also careful to include the significant holy sites of the New Testament. After the maps production, the British Foreign Office required that the PEF delay the publication of the maps for a year to control the dispersal of sensitive intelligence information. Thus, these maps should be evaluated both as products of academic and religious scholarship and as tools in the British colonial enterprise. Subject The topic of the resource Detailed geographical survey of Western Palestine with additional layers depicting religious holy sites, Arabic places Historical Map Fill out as many of these fields as possible. Required Dublin core fields include Title, Description, Publisher Cartographer Kitchener, H.R. (Horatio Herbert) Saunders, Trelawney Engraver Stanford's Geographical Establishment Ordnance Survey Office Collection Name of collection of which the map is a part David Rumsey Historical Map Collection Call Number 6930.037 Date Published 1882 Date Depicted (1872-1877) and/or biblical Israel URL or Unique Identifier http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~241003~5512446?qvq=q%3Apalestine%2Bexploration%2Bfund%3Bsort%3Apub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_date%3Blc%3ARUMSEY~8~1&amp;mi=36&amp;trs=58 Format notes Scale 1: 168,960 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Western Palestine Illustrating The Old Testament, The Apocrypha and Josephus. Description An account of the resource This map layer depicts Western Palestine at the time of the Old Testament. It sources its information primarily in the book of Joshua which chronicles the Israelites conquering and settling the Holy Land. However, there are additional place names, not mentioned in the Old Testament, that extracted from Josephus’s commentary. Potentially, the author also used Josephus’s text as a lense onto the Old Testament. Joesphus’s commentary on the Old Testament was famously translated by English Theologian William Whiston in the early 18th century and it itself included some maps. There is some ambiguity as to the exact time period this map aims to depict. The key explains symbolism for biblical events that are centuries apart, for example delineating the arrangement of governances during the reign of King Solomon and also tinting and coloration to indicate the tribal territories which were captured in the Assyrian and Babylonian Captivity. Another focus of the map, holy places and stations (for sacrificial worship) are marked through symbols and color. Because the Palestine Exploration Fund sponsored a survey limited to western Palestine, the map is limited in scope and is only able to include six of the tribal allotments represented in the Old Testament. This suggests that reconstructing the holy land of the Old Testament was not the primary goal of the survey. It is important to note that the cartographer’s depiction of the land allotments to each of the twelve Judean tribes and also various Kohanite and Levite cities was not the first of its kind and indeed follows a classical style that can be traced back to the middle ages. However, this map layer is unique for its merging of religious historical heritage with cutting edge topographic and demographic data. There is some ambiguity as to the exact time period this map aims to depict. The key explains symbolism for biblical events that are centuries apart, for example delineating the arrangement of governances during the reign of King Solomon and also tinting and coloration to indicate the tribal territories which were captured in the Assyrian and Babylonian Captivity. Another focus of the map, holy places and stations (for sacrificial worship) are marked through symbols and color. Because the Palestine Exploration Fund sponsored a survey limited to western Palestine, the map is limited in scope and is only able to include six of the tribal allotments represented in the Old Testament. This suggests that reconstructing the holy land of the Old Testament was not the primary goal of the survey. It is important to note that the cartographer’s depiction of the land allotments to each of the twelve Judean tribes and also various Kohanite and Levite cities was not the first of its kind and indeed follows a classical style that can be traced back to the middle ages. Nevertheless, However, this map layer is unique for its merging of religious historical heritage with cutting edge topographic and demographic data. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1880 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kitchener, H.R. (Horatio Herbert) Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Composite Map Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant The region of Ottoman-era Palestine west of the Jordan River biblical text key latitude/longitude lines the Holy Oblation tribal allotments https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/276113bf6761337d9d43a3b889bfc7f0.jpg e9b93832281753d58cb1dc209bdfc88b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Britain Colonial Mapping of Western Palestine in the Ottoman period Description An account of the resource The Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) of Great Britain conducted an extensive survey of Western Palestine from 1872-1877, during the Ottoman period. While the fund was headed by religious figures and academics, there was also involvement from the British government. Essentially, the religious and academic associations of the fund may have served as a front to allow the British government to collect intelligence on the region. For example, the British Foreign Office had documented involvement in the production and funding of the survey project, which increased with the Russo-Turkian War (1877-78). This survey was the most detailed and technologically advanced to date and was ultimately employed by the British in their invasion of Palestine in WWI. In addition to its attention to topographic detail, this mapping project is notable for its area of focus. Unlike other maps produced by Western colonial powers at the time, such as France and Germany, this map focuses exclusively on an area west of the Jordan river. Uncannily, its borders resemble those of the future British Mandate (1920-1948). The survey is also careful to include the significant holy sites of the New Testament. After the maps production, the British Foreign Office required that the PEF delay the publication of the maps for a year to control the dispersal of sensitive intelligence information. Thus, these maps should be evaluated both as products of academic and religious scholarship and as tools in the British colonial enterprise. Subject The topic of the resource Detailed geographical survey of Western Palestine with additional layers depicting religious holy sites, Arabic places Historical Map Fill out as many of these fields as possible. Required Dublin core fields include Title, Description, Publisher Cartographer Conder, C.R. (Claude Reignier) Kitchener, H.R. (Horatio Herbert) Type individual map, atlas sheet, book figure, part of bound collection, born-digital index map Collection Name of collection of which the map is a part David Rumsey Historical Map Collection URL or Unique Identifier http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~240963~5512342?qvq=q%3Apalestine%2Bexploration%2Bfund%3Bsort%3Apub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_date%3Blc%3ARUMSEY~8~1&mi=3&trs=58 Date Published 1880 Date Depicted 1872-1877 Engraver Ordinance Survey Office Call Number 6930.000 Format notes Scale 1: 620,000 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Topographical and Geographical Terms in Arabic (and English Description An account of the resource This map presents the place names of western Palestine in Arabic and explains their meaning in a key on the side. It also marks the location of Arabic villages, churches and mosques. It is a notable that this map is included to the Palestine Exploration Fund Survey because it acknowledges the development of an indigenous culture in the region since the time of the new testament. The New Testament seems to color the surveyors' interaction with the land in the remainder of the collection so I hope to study the ways that it has seeped into this map as well. Notably, unlike the other maps in the survey, this map appears less technologically advanced and does not include topography lines. It might be less useful as an orienting tool for the military and might instead represent the academic interests behind the survey. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant The region of Ottoman-era Palestine west of the Jordan River arabic place names arabic transcribed to english camp greenery infrastructure key numbers religious buildings vehicles water bodies