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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).
Map of south west Persia, showing coastlines, rivers, and the region’s principal towns and cities. Red lines between towns, which are numbered 1, 2, 3, 3a, 4 and 4a, indicate road routes that are described in detail in part IV of the enclosing volume (ff 84-175).
‘Sketch of the Kárún River at Ahwaz showing the obstruction to the navigation, &c.’
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Sketch map of the Karun River at Ahwáz [Ahvāz], showing obstructions to the river’s navigation, produced by Captain Henry Lake Wells of the Royal Engineers, in December 1881, with additions made by Major Mark Sever Bell of the Royal Engineers, on 28 March 1884. The map, with accompanying key, in...
Sketch of Shústar [Shūshtar] showing the Karun river, canals, fort and citadel, bridges (including the Band-i-Kaisar [Band-e Kaisar]), and areas cultivated with poppies. The arrows on the sketch indicate the direction of downward slopes.
Diagrammatic map of the Band-i-Gargar embankment, part of the Shūshtar historical hydraulic system, showing: the direction of the canal’s flow; water channels; the location of mills; clay and sandstone cliffs; the locations of Shūshtar, on one bank, and the village of Boleiti on the other.
Sheet no. 1 of a map of southwest Persia [Iran], compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quartermaster General’s Department in India, by Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Sever Bell (Victoria Cross, Royal Engineers), Assistant Quartermaster General, January 1885. The map indicates: re...
Sheet no. 2 of a map of southwest Persia [Iran], compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quartermaster General’s Department in India, by Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Sever Bell (Victoria Cross, Royal Engineers), Assistant Quartermaster General, January 1885. The map indicates: re...
Sheet no. 3 of a map of southwest Persia [Iran], compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quartermaster General’s Department in India, by Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Sever Bell (Victoria Cross, Royal Engineers), Assistant Quartermaster General, January 1885. The map indicates: re...
Sheet no. 1 of a map of southwest Persia [Iran], compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quartermaster General’s Department in India, by Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Sever Bell (Victoria Cross, Royal Engineers), Assistant Quartermaster General, January 1885. The map indicates: re...
The volumes consist of five military reports concerning regions of S W Persia, with nine accompanying maps. Compiled in the Division of the Chief of the Staff, Army Head Quarters, India. Printed at the Government Monotype Press, 1909-12. The volumes are as follows: I: Bakhtiari Garmsir [Bakhtīā...
