Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
Fig. 9 Section of British topographic map with mark-ups—detail. Source Service Historique de
la Defense, Department de l'Armee de Terre Division, Château de Vincennes, Paris
4.2 Diagrams, Drawings and Marked-up Maps
Diagrams and drawings were produced to provide intelligence and to map military
installations, trenches, etc. The examples that follow show a field sketch of trench
positions produced as a glass lantern slide transparency (8.5 9 8.5 cm) (Fig.
8
),
marked-up annotations of key facilities on pre- colour topographic maps (Fig.
9
),
hand-drawn diagrams showing the positions of troop emplacements (Fig.
10
) and
spirit 'quick print' perspective views (Fig.
11
).
4.3 Mapping the War at Home
The 'man and woman in the street' was interested in gaining an appreciation of the
battlefronts in World War I. Commercial map publishers and newspapers satisfied
this need for geographically-placed information. English map publisher Stannard
and Son produced a map showing a perspective view of European and Asiatic
Turkey, Russia, Austria and Persia. It showed …the whole of the seaboard, rail-
ways, rivers and probable points of attack/compiled from the latest official sources
by Alfred Concanen. The map is shown in Fig.
12
.
