Litografía del Estado Mayor General (sold)
Litografía del Estado Mayor General (c. 1895 - 1935) served as the official lithographic press and cartographic publishing office for the General Staff of the Colombian Army. Established in Bogotá as the Imprenta del Comando General (sometimes also as Imprenta del Estado Mayor General), it functioned as the state body for converting field surveys, military reconnaissance, public works blueprints, and territorial studies into standardized official maps. The press published maps and documents ranging from regional infrastructure plans to strategic border maps created during geopolitical crises, including the 1932 - 1933 Colombia - Peru War over the Amazonian Trapezium. It also served as an institutional bridge between early 19th-century private printmaking and the establishment of centralized state agencies like the Instituto Geográfico Militar y Catastral in 1935.
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