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The Harmsworth Atlas and Gazetteer
(published at London England circa 1908-1909)

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© copyright 2000-2003 by FEEFHS, all rights reserved
Latest Update: 30 May 2000 (Gazetteer E/F/G posted, smaller scans of pages 97 and 98 posted)

See also the FEEFHS Gazetteer of these Harmsworth Atlas Maps

Copyright Restrictions: These maps (and all the accompanying text provided with them) are fully copyrighted - all rights reserved - by the copyright owner. They can be ONLY be downloaded for personal non-profit use.

PRIOR WRITTEN APPROVAL from the copyright owner MUST be obtained to use them in any other way. It took alot effort and expense to create and post these pages on the web. You are well advised to fully respect all aspects of this copyright.

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. It also is not generally available to FHL record searchers - so don't even ask - just be glad it is posted here.

Other Non-FHL Sources: No other sources are known to exist for this Harmsworth Atlas and Gazetteer. Please advise the FEEFHS webmaster if you have located another copy at a map library, archive or other library.

Copyright Restrictions: These maps (and all the accompanying text provided with them) are fully copyrighted - all rights reserved - by the copyright owner. They can be ONLY be downloaded for personal non-profit use.

PRIOR WRITTEN APPROVAL from the copyright owner MUST be obtained to use them in any other way. It took alot effort and expense to create and post these pages on the web. You are well advised to fully respect all aspects of this copyright.

Printing Maps: These maps CANNOT be printed out by your home printer (you have grossly insufficient RAM). Suggestion: download the high resolution (300 dpi) map version to a ZIP or JAZZ disk, then take it to a commercial digital printer (or AlphaGraphics or even some of the better Kinko franchises). Only a commercial digital printer can provide the needed full printout. See the related page "Scanning and Printing Harmsworth Atlas and other Oversized Maps". See also Printing Maps for more Q & A. on small maps.


FEEFHS scans of Russian Empire Maps from the Harmsworth Atlas posted here currently include: