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The Harmsworth Atlas and Gazetteer
(published at London England
circa 1908-1909)
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See also the FEEFHS Map Index to these
Harmsworth Atlas Maps
Source Information: The
Harmsworth Atlas and Gazetteer contains 500 Maps and diagrams in colour
[with commercial statistics and 190 inset maps] and a 284 page gazetteer index
of 105,000 place names. The publisher was Carmelite House, Carmalite Street,
London E. C. No publishing date is listed. However, based on the published 1907
commercial statistics contained, it is presumed to have been published circa
1908-1909.
Background: This is a very important map and gazetteer
reference source. The text and language is in English. The apparent publishing
year (circa 1908-1909) is just prior to the start of World War I - one of the
last atlas / gazetteers to be published just prior to World War I (1914-1915).
Thus it presents the maximum geographic scope of the three great European
empires (Austria / Hungary, Germany and Russia) just prior to their dissolution
at the end of World War I (1918-1919).
Perhaps these are some of the
reasons why it is in regular reference use by the FHL (Family History Library)
"3rd floor staff" (the GSU acquistions staff and the FHL cataloging staff) of
the Family History Department of the LDS Church at Salt Lake City, Utah,
USA.
FHL Call Number: The FHL Call Number (Dewey Decimal System)
is Staff Q 912 H228. It also bears a stamp on the cover page:
Genalogical Society of the Church of [LDS] #68109 from a decades old FHL
indexing. Note: This Atlas does not circulate.