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Maps

Artist / Author / Cartographer:

Singapore Chinese Booksellers Association

Title:

Map of Singapore City

Date:

c.1958

Medium:

lithograph, printed in colour

Size:

74 x 124 cm

Description:

No. 191 - 54. Scale 1 inch to 1 mile.

 

A large detailed plan of the Island of Singapore published in 1958. An index bottom right highlights railways, roads, bridges, boundaries, buildings, water features, relief and vegetation.

 

This city plan of Singapore was printed in Chinese and English by Chung Hwa Book Company in Hong Kong in 1958. The map was published one year after the Treaty of London which gave independence to the Federation of Malaysia in 1857.

 

The plan is among the first maps of Singapore to be based upon the aerial surveys conducted by the Singapore Surveyor General during the British period.

 

Singapore was designated a city by King George VI on September 22, 1951.

 

A scarce large scale plan of Singapore.

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Item Code:

MA7834

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