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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 496/7(34)
Title:: 'Mohammerah'. Photographer: Rev. Edwin Aubrey Storrs-Fox
Scope & Content:: Genre/Subject Matter: This scene shows a stream or irrigation channel, a palm grove and several Arab men at Mohammerah (Khorramshahr), which is located at the mouth of the Karun River on the Shatt-el-Arab delta. The stream extends from lower left to centre left of the image: it may be a man-m...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Mar 1918
Extent:: 1 b&w silver gelatin print

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 496/10
Title:: Album of views in India, the Middle East and Europe. Photographer: Rev. Edwin Aubrey Storrs-Fox
Scope & Content:: Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains historical landscape, maritime and architectural snapshot views at Udaipur, Mount Abu, Bombay, Aden, Suez Canal, Boulogne, various locations in England, Sialkot, Jammu and Marala [Murala]. Elements: 1 ‘Udaipur: Fateh Sagar.’ 2 ‘Mount Abu: Plains from ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1925-28
Extent:: 48 b&w silver gelatin prints bound into a brown, cloth-covered photograph album

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 496/10/17
Title:: Aden: S.S. "Ranchi"
Scope & Content:: Genre/Subject Matter: View of the SS Ranchi from Aden. The steamship is anchored in the centre background. Behind it rocky hills rise from left to right. In the distant background on the right two large two-storeyed buildings sit along the shoreline. In the foreground two small boats carry two ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Dec 1926
Extent:: 1 b&w silver gelatin print

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 667/4
Title:: Parsons Collection: Album of views of India and South-East Asia by Major General Sir Arthur Edward Broadbent Parsons
Scope & Content:: Full leather bound album measuring 352 x 500 mm, decorated with blind tooling, and with initials 'A.P.' stamped in gold in centre of front cover. The album is numbered '5' on the front cover. The album is enclosed in a card slipcase. Binding by Zaehnsdorf, London. Prints are mounted several to a...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1950s-1960s
Extent:: Full leather bound album measuring containing 642 silver gelatin prints mounted several per page and indicated with handwritten captions

Reference (shelfmark):: ST 393
Title:: Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society
Scope & Content:: The Transactions cover the following geographic regions: India, the Middle East (especially Arabia and the Persian Gulf), East Africa (including Zanzibar), and Japan. The subjects covered by the Transactions include the following: geography; meteorology; languages; travel and exploration; histo...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English, French, German, Kanarese, and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1836-1873
Extent:: 20 volumes (approximately 6245 pages)

Reference (shelfmark):: ST 393, index
Title:: Bombay Geographical Society. Index to the First Seventeen Volumes of the Society's Transactions. With Catalogue of the Library, and Catalogue of Charts, Maps, Sketches, and Views.
Scope & Content:: Bombay Geographical Society. Index to the First Seventeen Volumes of the Society's Transactions. With Catalogue of the Library, and Catalogue of Charts, Maps, Sketches, and Views. Publication details: Printed for the Society by Ballantyne and Co., Paul's Work, Edinburgh, 1866.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1836-1864
Extent:: 1 volume (339 pages)

Reference (shelfmark):: ST 393, vol 1
Title:: Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from 1836 to 1838. Reprinted from the Edition Originally Issued. Edited by the Secretary. Volume I.
Scope & Content:: Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from 1836 to 1838. Reprinted from the Edition Originally Issued. Edited by the Secretary. Volume I. Publication details: Bombay: Printed at the American Mission Press, by T Graham, 1844.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1836-1838
Extent:: 1 volume (422 pages)

Reference (shelfmark):: ST 393, vol 2
Title:: Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, August 1838 to May 1839. Edited by the Secretary. Volume II.
Scope & Content:: Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, August 1838 to May 1839. Edited by the Secretary. Volume II. Publication details: none. With illustrations.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1838-1839
Extent:: 1 volume (343 pages)

Reference (shelfmark):: ST 393, vol 3
Title:: Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from June 1839 to February 1840. Edited by the Secretary. Volume III.
Scope & Content:: Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from June 1839 to February 1840. Edited by the Secretary. Volume III. Publication details: Bombay: Printed at the American Mission Press, by E A Webster, 1840. Illustration: sketch of Captain Hart's route to Hinglaj.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1839-1840
Extent:: 1 volume (207 pages)

Reference (shelfmark):: ST 393, vol 3, p 77
Title:: SKETCH of the country between KURACHEE and the AGHOR RIVER Showing Captain Hart's route to Hinglaj
Scope & Content:: The map shows the coast between Kurachee [Karachi] and the Aghor [Hingol] River. The map shows settlements, with some indication of relief. Scale: four miles = 1 inch.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1839
Extent:: 1 map

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