Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Armbruster, Charles Hubert
Dates of creation: 1904-[1959]
Extent: 2 files; 15 maps
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: Armbruster, Charles Hubert
Language: English; Amharic
(1874 - 1957)
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| 1897 | Assistant Collector and Judicial Officer in British Central Africa Protectorate Administration |
| 1900 | Transferred to Sudan, serving in Dongola and Kassala |
| 1901 | Assistant Inspector, Sennar |
| 1903-1905 | Service in Kassala Province |
| 1906 | Accompanied expedition into Abyssinia against Haile Maryam as Political Officer |
| 1907-1908 | Political missions to Abyssinia |
| 1909 | Accompanied Sir Reginald Wingate on his mission to Somaliland as Intelligence Officer and sent on political mission to Addis Ababa |
| 1909-1912 | Senior Inspector, Legal Department |
| 1910-1911 | Examiner in Amharic for the Civil Service Commissioners |
| 1911-1912 | Examiner in Amharic for the Sudan Government |
| 1912-1919 | H.M. Consul for N.W. Ethiopia |
| 1916-1919 | Egyptian Expeditionary Force |
| 1920-1925 | Director, Sudan Government Customs Department |
| 1922 | Examiner in Amharic for Sudan Government |
| 1926 | Retired from Sudan Government service |
1. Personal Papers
2. Maps
3. Printed Material
Presented by Mrs C.H. Armbruster, 1958-1961
Catalogue
1. Personal Papers
SAD.439/636/1-6
n.d. and 1927-1931
Personal letters to Armbruster from R. von Slatin Pasha, with news of his leave in Austria, Germany and England and concerning the purchase of jewellery and a shield (SAD.439/636/1-4) and to Mrs Armbruster with Christmas greetings for 1927 and
1931 (SAD.439/636/5-6)
SAD.402/16/1-6
[1959]
Note by Mrs Stephana Armbruster of her ancestry, particularly relating to her grandfather, John Bell, and his two daughters (Mrs Armbruster's mother and aunt) Mary Saalmuller and Susan Waldmeies, and their connection with King Theodore of
Abyssinia, with covering letter from Mrs Armbruster to R.L. Hill. Most of the information is copied from printed sources.
2. Maps
SAD.105/73[MP]
1904
Map of the Egyptian Sudan : Wad Medani. Sheet 55-G. [London] : War Office, General Staff, Geographical Section.
scale: 1 : 250,000
44 x 65 cm
SAD.PF 26/3/5
1904
Map of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Intelligence Office, Khartoum.
1:4,000,000
Size: 73 x 61
SAD.105/70[MP]
1908 Jul
Map of the Egyptian Sudan : Sennar. Sheet 55-K. [London] : Intelligence Division, War Office.
scale: 1 : 250,000
47 x 65 cm
SAD.105/68[MP]
1908
Map of Gallabat. Sheet 56-M. [London] : Reproduced at the Intelligence Division War Office from a map supplied by the Director of Sudan Surveys 1903, August, 1908.
scale: 1 : 250,000
44 x 65 cm
SAD.430/22/22[MP]
1908
Map of Abyssinia. War Office, London
scale: 1 : 3,000,000
Size: 59 x 67 cm
SAD.430/22/23[MP]
1910
Map of Abyssinia showing routes from Harrar and Dire Daua to Addis Ababa. War Office, London. Printed at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton
scale: 1 : 500,000
Size: 53 x 91 cm
SAD.430/22/24[MP]
1907
Map of Abyssinia: Addis Ababa. Provisional sheet 67. War Office, London. Printedf at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton.
scale: 1 : 1,000,000
Size: 59.5 x 76 cm
SAD.105/71[MP]
1908 Jul
Map of Africa : Nogara. Sheet 56-I. Great Britain, War Office, Intelligence Division. [London]
scale: 1 : 250,000
47 x 65 cm
SAD.430/22/26[MP]
1909
Map of Gondar, Abyssinia. Sheet F9. Instituto Geografico Militare [Firenze]
scale: 1 : 400,000
Size: 73 x 65 cm
SAD.430/22/27[MP]
1909
Map of Macalle, Abyssinia, Sheet F10. Instituto Geografico Militare [Firenze]
scale: 1 : 400,000
73 x 65 cm
SAD.105/69[MP]
1909
Map of Africa : Gondar. Sheet 56-N. Great Britain, War Office, General Staff, Geographical Section. Southampton : Printed at the Ordnance Survey Office.
scale: 1 : 250,000
44 x 65 cm
SAD.105/72[MP]
1909
Map of Africa. Sheet 56-J. Great Britain, War Office, General Staff, Geographical Section. Southampton : Printed at the Ordnance Survey Office.
scale: 1 : 250,000
44 x 65 cm
SAD.430/22/29[MP]
1922 Sep 17
Map of Abyssinia for Abyssinian atlas. Hand coloured.
scale: 1 : 3,000,000
Size: 62 x 74 cm
Language:
Amharic
SAD.430/22/30[MP]
1922 Oct 14
Map of the world for Abyssinian atlas. Hand coloured.
Size: 65 x 79 cm
Language:
Amharic
SAD.430/22/31[MP]
1922 Sep 25
Map of Africa for Abyssinian atlas. Hand coloured.
scale: 1 to 16,000,000
Size: 65 x 69.5 cm
Language:
Amharic
SAD.430/19/32[MP]
1935
Map of Africa orientale : Eritrea, Somalia, Etiopia. Novara : Istituto Geografico De Agostini, 1935. 5th edition
scale: 1 to 250,000
Size: 90 x 82 cm
3. Printed material
Separated printed material now in Durham University Library
Printed material deposited with collection; now integrated into the library's printed collections and catalogued on the Open Public Access Catalogue
