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Digital Image: 1891 French Bureau Topographique Map of Tonkin, North Vietnam, Indochina
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Title
Indo-Chine Française Carte du Tonkin.
1891 (dated) 24 x 34 in (60.96 x 86.36 cm) 1 : 1000000
1891 (dated) 24 x 34 in (60.96 x 86.36 cm) 1 : 1000000
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Bureau Topographique des Troupes de l'Indo-chine (fl. c. 1886 - 1900) was founded in 1886 in Hanoi. Its first major project was a 1:2000000 map of the entirety of Indochina, for which they drew on source maps created by the Service Hydrographique de la Marine and those created by an expeditionary corps sent throughout the region. Before establishing its own printing facilities in Indochina in 1890, the Bureau Topographique transferred their work back to Paris to be printed by the Service Géographique de l'Armée. In 1890 the Bureau Topographique also began to increase its cartographic output. The Bureau Topographique sent army officers on triangulation and topographic missions in unexplored areas of Indochina throughout the 1890s, some of which proved fatal for the participants. It is unclear when the Bureau Topographique shut down, but no examples of their work postdate 1900. More by this mapmaker...
Jean-François-Henri Schneider (December 1, 1851 - 1929/1930) was a French printer, publisher, and photographer active in French Indochina. The son of a French-German mason, Schneider fought as a volunteer during the 1870 Siege of Paris. He arrived in Saigon in 1882 after being recruited to work for the colonial government's printing office. The following year (1883) he was sent to Hanoi to create the Protectorate's printing house and he served as its first director. He resigned in 1885 and that year opened the very successful Imprimerie d'Extrême-Orient with his brother Ernest Hippolyte Schneider, the first private commercial printing house in Tonkin. They published from 1885 to about 1940 - surviving Schneider himself. In 1886, he bought the printing facility operated by the Protectorate Printing House and renamed the examined operation the Imprimerie Typographique de F.H. Schneider. In so doing, he also secured the contract to print all government papers, previously the pave of the Protectorate Printing House. Schneider established his own paper factory in 1891. He was also a passionate student of Vietnamese and formed great working relationships with local Vietnamese officials. He also edited dictionaries and other manuals in Vietnamese. He received the Legion of Honor in 1903. Schneider served as the director and editor if the Journal officiel de l'Indochine, founded the Revue indochinoise, and served as the director of L'Avenir du Tonkin. Learn More...
References
OCLC 494850363.