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Colonies Francaises. (en Afrique.)
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Colonies Francaises. (en Afrique.)

This is a fascinating 1847 map of the French colonies of Madagascar, Senegal, and the Gambia, is divided into two sections: Madagascar and Senegambie. Senegambie features a close up of the Senegal River and the Island of St. Louis. The Madagascar section features an inset of the coast. The whole is surrounded by elaborate decorative engravings designed to illustrate both the natural beauty and trade richness of the land. There is a short textual history of the regions depicted on both the left and right sides of the map.

Date
1848
Place
Madagascar
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
3,000 × 2,125 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago, and a faithful scan of a flat work adds no new copyright.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-Art (PD-old-100); no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"Colonies Francaises. (en Afrique.)" (1848). Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1848_Levasseur_Map_of_Senegal,_Gambia_and_Madagascar_-_Geographicus_-_AfricaFr-levasseur-1847.jpg

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