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Collection Area India Office Records and Private Papers Subject Historic buildings

1. 1781.b.6/1

Reference (shelfmark):
1781.b.6/1
Title:
'Die Moschee und der nordwestliche Theil der Stadt'.
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter This panoramic view over Mecca showing most of the Masjid al-Haram and the northwest portion of the city is likely a print of a drawing after a photograph or series of photographs of the same view by the Mekkan photographer, and doctor, al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār. Numbers ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1888
Extent:

1 print (possibly lithographic) of a drawing after a photograph

2. 1781.b.6/2

Reference (shelfmark):
1781.b.6/2
Title:
'Die Moschee'.
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: This south-southwest view inside the Masjid al-Haram of the Caaba and surrounding structures is a print of a drawing after a photograph of the same view by the Meccan photographer, and doctor, al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār. This photograph, in the collection of the Universitei...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1888
Extent:

1 print (possibly lithographic) of a drawing after a photograph

3. 1781.b.6/6

Reference (shelfmark):
1781.b.6/6
Title:
'Die von Othman Pascha erbaute Hauptwache'. Photographer: al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: This street view depicts the main guardhouse or police station in Mecca, described as being newly built by Othman Pascha. The two-storey building features the Ottoman star and crescent symbols on the cornice and what appears to be a royal toughra at the centre of the pedim...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1888
Extent:

1 print of a drawing

4. Photo 174(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 174(12)
Title:
Picture of the Paradise Garden of al-Baqi'. Photographer: H. A. Mirza & Sons
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter This image shows the cemetery known as the Paradise of al-Baqi' in Medina, which was the first Islamic cemetery. Located immediately to the southeast of the Masjid al-Nabawi, the cemetery holds significance due to its status as the burial site of many companions and relativ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Urdu
Date Range:
c 1907
Extent:

1 b/w photographic print laid down on a blue card window mount

5. Photo 430/8(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/8(3)
Title:
'[Muscat] British Consulate. 31. Oct 1900'. Photographer: Arthur Alexander Crookshank
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter View from the shoreline of the British Consulate at Muscat, looking due west. The consulate is a pale-stoned, two or three-storeyed building built along the quays. Two gas lamps can be seen along the quay in front of the building and a single mashrabiyya (a form of enclos...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1900
Extent:
1 b&w photographic print

6. Photo 430/8(83)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/8(83)
Title:
'[Bushire] The Town looking South from Gray. Paul's Office. 23. Feb. 1902'. Photographer: Arthur Alexander Crookshank
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter This view of Bushire (Bushehr), from an elevated position looking south, is taken from the roof of the offices of Gray, Paul and Co. (sister firm to Gray, MacKenzie and Company), a company that acted as shipping agent for British India steamers between India and Europe, via...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Feb 1902
Extent:
1 b&w photographic print