Sheet 56 San El Hagar Atlas of Egypt Compiled at the Offices of the Survey Department. Volume I. Lower Egypt Comprising Maps of the Cultivated Area Between the Mediterranean Sea and Cairo. Volume II. Upper Egypt Comprising Maps of the Cultivated Area Between Cairo and the Sudan Boundary.

Only one other copy of this atlas is located in Worldcat. It appears to have been produced in limited numbers for banks and businesses. Sheets dated from 1908 to 1919. Most of the sheets say "Reproduced by the Photo-metal Process at the Survey Department, Egypt." We assume the the British Ordnance Survey had some role in the design of these sheets, given the similarity to the Ordnance Survey sheets of Great Britain made in the same time period and the British influence on the administration of Egypt since the building of the Suez canal. Not all sheets in the key sheet are included in this set - some sheets were not yet ready and others may have been left out because they only showed the desert area. The post binding allowed for updating and adding new sheets. The seven sheets of the Kharga Oasis (204-214) were likely added later. Many of the maps have been trimmed at the top and bottom borders to fit into the binding. The maps show the soon to fade Ottoman influences on the Egyptian landscape. View all map sheets joined in Google Earth: https://rumsey3.s3.amazonaws.com/Egypt_1914.kmz