Rare plan of Adelaide

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Green and Wadham's Map of the City of Adelaide

the Capital of South Australia. Shewing the Roads, and Subdivisions into Sections: And the position of the Suburban Townships, within a Radius of Eight Miles. Measured from the Post Office.

GREEN & WADHAM
London,
Ashby & Co., King William Street City,
[c.1861].
Lithograph plan, original hand-colour, manuscript annotations in red, dissected and mounted on linen, minor damp staining, abrasions, and minor loss at folds.
850 by 1230mm (33.5 by 48.5 inches).
1418

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Rare cadastral map of the City of Adelaide and surrounding metropolitan area within a radius of eight miles. Includes municipal council districts names and boundaries, section numbers and main roads, railways, rivers and creeks; relief shown by hachures; and parklands shown pictorially. To the left of the map is an extension of map from the southern boundary of the Hundred of Port, showing LeFevre's Peninsula.

The map can be dated to around 1861 by an advertiseme...

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State Library of South Australia C 1039 OUTSIZE 6 (Archival maps).

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