Cuba maps from Texas A&M University.

A digital collection of historical maps of Cuba and other surrounding countries in the West Indies such as Jamaica and Puerto Rico, published from 1758 to 1970, held by Texas A&M University's Cushing Memorial Library. They range from general maps of administrative and political divisions t...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Cushing Memorial Library (Curator)
Format: Map
Language:English
Published: [College Station, Texas] : [Texas A&M University Libraries], [2021]
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Summary:A digital collection of historical maps of Cuba and other surrounding countries in the West Indies such as Jamaica and Puerto Rico, published from 1758 to 1970, held by Texas A&M University's Cushing Memorial Library. They range from general maps of administrative and political divisions to topographic, soil, land use, road, and railroad maps. Other topics covered in this collection include population and locations of economic activity and sugar growing in Cuba during the mid-twentieth century.
Item Description:Several maps were digitized from atlases in the library's collection, including: Wilhelm Siever's Süd- und Mittelamerika (1903), Report on the census of Cuba, 1899 (1900), Atlas geographico de la America septentrional y meridional (Por ... Thomas Lopez pensionista de S.M. en la corte de Paris año de 1758), Colton's Atlas of America : illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America and the West India islands (1856), and Humboldt's Atlas géographique et physique du royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne (1811).
Scales of maps vary.
Physical Description:1 online resource (39 maps) : chiefly color