[CIA terrain board collection] United States. Central Intelligence Agency. cartographic map Manuscript maps. Physical maps. dcu 1958 2004 monographic [1958?-2004] eng
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92 ms. maps, 3 photostat maps : some col. ; on sheets 125 x 93 cm. or smaller. 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). 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. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Scales differ ; Lambert conformal conic proj. Scales differ ; UTM proj. Cartography Problems, exercises, etc Earth G3201.C2 coll .C6 Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3201cm.gct00279 2012586886 hdl:loc.gmd/g3201cm.gct00279 aacr DLC 120315 20250607045952.3 17211573 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208)