No. 51

A linen map detailing the surrounding area of Marico (now Groot Marico), South Africa. The map is compiled from the Transvaal Farm Surveys in the Surveyor General's Office- Pretoria under the direction of Major H.M. Jackson. It was lithographed in March 1901 at Pretoria in the Survey and Mapping Sections Field Intelligence Department Army Headquarters. There is a scale located at the base indicating 2.35 English miles to an inch; or roughly 1 mile to a centimeter. A reference guide can be found to the left of the scale labeling Territory Boundaries, District boundaries, Farms boundaries, railways, roads, paths, and telegraph lines. Topography and sites of the map are also labelled in the guide detailing pans/dams, homesteads/Kraals, farm numbers-heights, military posts, Mission Stations and Police Stations, Magistrates Office-Police Posts, and post and telegraph offices. To the right of the scale resides the key map of corresponding sheets numbered 1-57. This map would have been made and used during the Anglo Boer War, or the South African War, which took place from 1899 to 1903.