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Porto - Valladolid. Sheet: 44 Edition: 294,5-11 Cover: X02A Scale 1:400,000 Notes: January 1929; print run apparently 4500; sectioned and mounted on linen, 1929

 File — Box: 57, item: 4440

Scope and Contents note

From the Sub-Series:

66 color maps, on sheets 50 x 133 cm or smaller, folded to 25 x 11 cm. Covers Spain and Portugal in 11 numbered sheets issued in multiple editions between approximately 1928-1936, when publication of this series mostly ceased for some 18 years following outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, with some exceptions. Sheets 40, 41, 45, 47, and 50 were issued in 1942 editions, and multiple post-war editions of sheets 42 and 43, limited to northeastern Spain, were issued between approximately 1954-1986. Front covers or title panels of all sheets include a series index map. Beginning about 1983 Michelin resumed complete coverage of Spain and Portugal at 1:400,000, issuing renumbered sheets with different titles; see Series 2, Europe, subseries 28, regional maps of Spain, Portugal, and the Canary Islands, 1983-2002, sheets 441-447.

Dates

  • Creation: 1929

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The Michelin map collection is open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).

Repository Details

Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository

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