Collection Map [CIA terrain board collection].

Title

• [CIA terrain board collection].

Names

• United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

Created / Published

• [1958?-2004]

Contents

• 1. Mediterranean basin (2 boards, 1 overlay) -- 2. West Bank (1 board, 1 overlay) -- 3. Southern Thailand (1 board, 1 overlay)-- 4. Chile-Peru border region (1 board, 1 overlay) -- 5. Gaza Strip (1 board, 1 overlay) -- 6. Cuba reference (2 boards, 3 overlays) -- 7. Central America reference (1 overlay) -- 8. Indochina (2 boards, 1 overlay) -- 9. Sinai Peninsula (1 board, 2 overlays) -- 10. Central Africa (2 boards, 1 overlay) -- 11. Southeast Asia reference (1 board, 1 overlay) -- 12. Egypt regional (2 boards, 1 overlay) -- 13. Lebanon reference (1 photostat, 1 overlay) -- 14. North Sea reference (2 boards, 1 overlay) -- 15. West Bank (1 photostat, 1 overlay) -- 16. Jerusalem (1 board, 1 overlay) -- 17. Southern South America (2 boards, 1 overlay) -- 18. Central Asia reference (2 boards, 2 overlays) -- 19. Southwest Europe reference (2 boards, 1 overlay) -- 20. Eastern Mediterranean (2 boards, 2 overlays) -- 21. Northwest Africa reference (2 boards, 2 overlays) -- 22. South America-Andes reference (2 boards, 1 overlay) -- 23. Southeast Asia reference (1 photostat, 1 overlay) -- 24. North Israel-south Lebanon (1 board, 1 overlay) -- 25. North Lebanon (1 board, 1 overlay) -- 26. Philippines reference (2 boards, 1 overlay) -- 27. North central Africa reference (2 boards, 2 overlays) -- 28. Southern Africa (2 boards, 1 overlay) -- 29. Southwest Asia reference (2 boards, 1 overlay) -- 30. South central Asia (2 boards, 2 overlays) -- 31. West Africa reference (2 boards, 1 overlay) -- 32. Mexico reference (2 boards, 1 overlay) -- 33. Balkans reference (2 boards, 1 overlay) -- 34. Southeast Lebanon (1 board, 1 overlay).

Headings

• -  Cartography--Problems, exercises, etc
• -  Earth

Genre

• Manuscript maps
• Physical maps

Notes

• -  The collection consists of 34 groups of manuscript terrain maps of various regions of the world, prepared using Swiss "ridge and valley" techniques by the Central Intelligence Agency's terrain specialists. The base terrain maps (shaded relief and lowland tints) were drawn on boards created from two sheets of paper fused to an aluminum core. The boards are accompanied by 1 to 4 manuscript overlays showing reference line work, etc. The collection documents sophisticated manual terrain mapping techniques now generally replaced by computer generated terrain renderings using digital data.
• -  The majority of the maps were prepared using Lambert's conformal conic projection, while the remainder use the universal transverse Mercator projection.

Medium

• 92 ms. maps, 3 photostat maps : some col. ; on sheets 125 x 93 cm. or smaller.

Call Number/Physical Location

• G3201.C2 coll .C6

Repository

• Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu

Digital Id

• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3201cm.gct00279

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2012586886

Online Format

• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2012586886

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