One photographic print: a full-length portrait of Sartip (a Persian military rank equivalent to Brigadier General) Muhammed Hossein Khán. The title is printed above the photograph in Persian, and below the photograph in English. The Persian title also bears a date: Hijri year 1301 (c.1883).
Tracing of ‘Rough Sketch of proposed buildings at Angaum [Jazīreh-ye Hengām]’
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The drawing is a tracing of a sketch drawn by Major J Mill Champain, Assistant Director in Chief of the Indo-European Telegraph Company, and dated 23 March 1868. The drawing shows the northern tip of the island of Angaum [Jazīreh-ye Hengām], with the following buildings identified and labelled A...
Illustration of the Russian bombardment of the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad, 1912
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A print of an illustration that depicts the bombardment of the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad by Russian artillery forces, an incident that occurred in April 1912. A poem in Farsi is displayed around the edge of the illustration and a translation of this poem is contained on folio 343.
‘Panorama showing ground traversed by Anglo-Turkish boundary ‘Haushabi-Humar’ to N. of ‘Ad Dareja’’
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Black and white reproduction of an illustration of mountainous territory on the Anglo-Turkish boundary. Significant hills and summits are marked as either being in British (B) or Turkish (T) territory, or being on the boundary itself (BO).
‘View up the Tiban N. from Lijma, showing Jabal Warwa.’
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Black and white reproduction of an illustration showing a view of the Tiban valley [Wādī Tiban] from Lijma [Al Lijmah], with the peak of Jabal Warwa in the distance. Human figures standing in and alongside the river provide scale to the scene.
Black and white reproduction of an illustration showing a view of the coast at Balhaf [Balḩāf]. The illustration is signed Lieutenant A L Paris, Royal Engineers, and dated 13 July 1902. The remains of the village, ruins, a tower, and the valley leading into the interior, are highlighted on the i...
Reproduction of an illustration of the port of Makalla [Al-Mukallā], as seen from the seaward side. The map is signed Lieutenant A L Paris, of the Royal Engineers, and dated 14 July 1902. A number of key buildings and other sites in the town (forts, towers, landing place) are highlighted.
‘View east from J Abab at head of Wadi Kurim, opposite Al Husen’
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Black and white reproduction of an illustration of mountainous terrain, seen from J Abab [Jabal ‘Abbāb], with the Tiban Valley [Wādī Tiban] in the foreground. The most prominent peaks are labelled with transliterated names, and in some instances also with compass bearings. The illustration is si...
Reproduction of an illustration of mountainous terrain, seen from At Thamer [Thamar], near Jimell [Jamal], Yemen. Prominent topographic features (mountain peaks, valleys) are annotated, most with transliterated names, some with compass bearings.