Name of Object:

New maps

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Holding Institution:

The Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF)

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Date of Object:

c. 1900

Inventory Number:

PEF-M-‘Great Map’ 1

Provenance:

?

Description:

Sgt. George Armstrong, R.E., who was a key member of the Survey Party, later made a 3D ‘Raised Contour Map’ of Palestine from the 2D maps originally produced. This was shown all over the western world, and won him a medal at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1903. It was the first such map ever constructed of Palestine, and served to introduce scholars and the public to the nature of the landscape in a way that no previous maps had done.

Citation of this web page:

"New maps" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;uk;84;en

MWNF Working Number: UK 084