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Title	Turkestan 1905
Full Title	Map of southern Turkestan
Series	Carnegie Institution of Washington publication ; 26
Creator	United States. Inquiry
Publication Date	1905
Map Publisher	A.B. Graham Co.
Subject	Asia, Central--Maps Caspian Sea Lowland (Kazakhstan and Russia)--Maps Caspian Sea Region--Maps Aral Sea Region--Maps
Continent	Asia
Country	Turkestan
Notes	Relief shown by shading. Shows areas traversed by the Ellsworth, Pumpelly and Davis parties. In upper left corner of margin: "Turkestan" ; in upper right corner of margin: "Plate III." Serves as base map by Ellsworth Huntington and the American Commission to Negotiate Peace for their "Map of the Caspian Sea and of the region to the East" to be used at the Paris Peace Conference by the Inquiry. Annotations describe the contents of the map and show where map is to be altered and trimmed for the Inquiry's purposes. "The shaded area shows the region between the Caspian Sea and the Sea of Aral which would be submerged if Aral should be filled to overflowing, and the Caspian should rise about 150 feet above the present level (after Konchin)"--[Ellsworth Huntington]. Annotation indicates that Map of Southern Turkestan is from no. 26 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. "Loaned by the American Geographical Society to the Peace Conference at Versailles, 1918-1919."
Type	Image
Scale	[ca. 1:5,645,600]
Original Collection	American Geographical Society Library - Maps
Original Item Description	1 map : annotated, col., mounted on linen ; 21 x 47 cm.
Original Item ID	494.9 B-[1905]
Language	en
Repository	American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Digital Publisher	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Rights	The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Digital ID	am003323
Digital Format	image/tif; image/jp2
Digital Collection	American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection

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