Calcutta and Howrah Guide Map

Anonymous, Calcutta and Howrah Guide Map, Calcutta: Published under the direction of E O Wheeler, Survey of India, 1943
38.5 x 28 in (96.2 x 70 cm) (opened map)

Original folded map with cloth covers, map pasted on linen, original folds as issued. Insets: Index to districts, municipalities, & municipal wards. Town plan of Calcutta and Howrah showing district and municipal boundaries, transportation, parks & gardens, water features, buildings and built-up areas.

Tape-indicator maps, patented by the German-born stationer Joseph Schlesinger in the 1850s and "enabling any place to be found on the map with mathematical certainty" seem to have peaked in popularity in the Edwardian era, although a few examples continued to be manufactured even after the Second World War. The index lists street names with corresponding numbers on the tape and the map itself. Swinhoe Street, for example, can be located by stretching the tape to number 72 in the margin of the map, and looking for number 48 on the tape.
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This work will be shipped unframed