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27th September 2025 - mapster update
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Another update from the collections of the Library of Congress in
Washington:
- 2269 sheets of the
Russian 1:84,000 map, the so-called 'two-verst map).The
index of all
available sheets is HERE.
A significant portion of
the scans are
various editions and reprints of the same sheet, often (though not
always) with
identical content. Furthermore, some maps contain additional content,
overprinted or drawn manually: overprints of field narrow-gauge
military railways (some
sheets dated 1917), a manually drawn border line between Poland and the
Soviet Union, spot elevations, and on, several sheets from the 1930s,
hand-drawn
tactical
signs, possibly showing exercises or actual troop movements
after September 17, 1939. We attached scans of the reverse side for the
sheets XXXI-29 FASTOV, VIc-18 VAGAST, VIc 18 for those interested in
various rubber stamps. We have also scanned a German index
from 1941
probably created by the Germans in the former WIG
headquarters in Warsaw. However, it does not show the entire coverage
of the series, probably the best index sheet for the series is a German
'captured Russian 1:84 000 maps'
index sheet, also courtesy of the Library of Congress.
nb. it's possible that, at some point in the future we might also scan
sheets of this map held in a different set of maps for Estonia, but
given more 'important' series, the chances of scanning are slim. We
will look for missing
sheets and editions from the territories of Ukraine and Belarus in
various European map collections.
And two more maps:
- one of the 1:84k scale maps was printed on the reverse side of a
Soviet
reprint of almost unique half-verst maps (1:21,000), sheet XIV-19-Z (ШУДОЙНИ)
(Lithuania, Šiudainys, Polish name: Szudojnie), reprinted for unknown
reasons
in the 1930s. The 1:21,000 map series itself was almost never
printed, with few exceptions. However,
hard copies
or other materials at this scale were used, from the beginning of the
20th
century, to create a simplified and rescaled map, the so-called
'one-verst map'), at a scale of 1:42,000, and in 1939 and 1940, used
again, for the printing of
1:25k scale maps, covering the Polish Kresy, Lithuania, Latvia, and
Estonia, related to the for the invasion of these countries.
- an Austro-Hungarian map at a scale of 1:25,000, sheet 4276-3 (8 XXXIV SW)
Grzymałów (Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine, known for its now non-existent castle) with
an overprint of field fortifications (Stellungskarte) dated 1917. The
map
comes from the collection of an American Major General, Charles Pelot
Summerall,
a commander who fought on the Western Front during World War I. As it
happened, one of the German units was transferred from the Eastern
Front and, possible during
the military operations, or after the capitulation, the German
documentation made its way into the General's collection, and after his
death, were transferred to the Library of Congress, where they're
available under the
signature G5831.S65 coll and, fortunately,
at some point, they were described in a corresponding pdf file, which
helped us find this rare map. This is an illustration of
how convoluted the fate of single sheets of paper can be.
Hey, Marek! Trying to access maps at your page "Other Central European Maps, via both Chrome and Opera browsers, I get the dialog box "File not found (404 error)
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Hello: I do Polish Genealogy. I need a topo map of Poland with major cities which I’ve never been able to find on the WEB. It should show post partition Poland with an out line of pre-partition Pola
Hi:
Are there any other maps showing parishes such as:
Andrzej Tomczak
Siec parafialna
Wojewoddztwa pomorskiego
Okregu bytowskiego I leborskiego
W drugiej polowie xvi wieku
Skala 1:300.
Thanks
