Sketch map indicating the international boundaries between Iraq, Persia [Iran], Turkey, and Azerbaijan. The boundaries are shown as red lines, with country names annotated in red ink. Major settlements are indicated in English in black ink. Important railways and rivers are also indicated in bla...
Map of Persia indicating the extent of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company concession
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The map indicates the territory of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company’s concession in Persia [Iran] until 31 December 1938, south of a line drawn on the map which is labelled the ‘violet line’. The map is referred to in article 2 of the oil accompanying concession text (f 131). Also indicated on the m...
Map of the frontier region between Persia, Afghānistān and Balūchistān
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A map is comprised of three separate Survey of India sheets stuck together, and covering the frontier region between Persia [Iran], British Baluchistan [in present-day Pakistan] and Afghanistan, around the town of Mirjāwā [Mīrjāveh]. The bottom left quarter of the map is a blank sheet. The map i...
Extract of a map showing the boundary between Iran and Baluchistan, in present-day Pakistan. The map indicates: hydrology; topography, with form lines; settlements; roads; the Iran-Baluchistan boundary. Two arrows drawn in red pencil have been added to the map. The annotation ‘Gwattur Bay’ has al...
Sketch map of the frontier between Persia, Baluchistan and Afghanistan
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Sketch map of the border between Persia [Iran], Baluchistan [in present-day Pakistan] and Afghanistan. The border is drawn as a solid black line. Annotations along the border are drawn in red ink. The boundary of the Khanate of Kalat is marked as a dashed black line. A note in the bottom right c...
Map of northern Iran showing the location of the Kavir-i-Khourian [Dasht-e Kavīr] oil concession. The map indicates: topography; hydrology, including salt water lakes; salt desert; human settlements, including Tehran, Samnan [Semnān] and Kashan; roads; railways; airfields and landing grounds. The...
Printed map with hand drawn additions. The map has two subtitles at its top: ‘Afghānistan, Baluchistān & Persia’ and ‘Sheet No. 30 Sīstān’, and is also labelled ‘Map No. 1, 2nd Edition (1928)’. It was published under the direction of Colonel Sir Sidney Gerald Burard, Surveyor General of Indi...
‘In the Kavir-i-Khourian Field. the western well in the background.’
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Photograph of the Kavir-i-Khourian [Dasht-e Kavīr] oil field in northern Iran. The photograph, which was taken from the inside of a motorcar, shows a flat desert landscape with a single wellhead in the middle distance.
Map of Mirjáwa [Mīrjāveh] and surroundings. The map indicates: hydrology; topography, with some indication of relief; cultivated areas; irrigation channels and surface drainage; the positions of the old and new British posts; the position of the ruins of the old village of Mirjáwa. The map is si...
‘Ahwaz irrigation scheme. Longitudinal section of main channel’
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The plan is labelled ‘Plan No 15’ and marked confidential. The horizontal scale of the plan is 2 inches to 1 mile (1:31,680). The vertical scale is 1:100. The plan is signed by Major W R Morton, Royal Engineers, on Special Duty in Arabistan, and dated 27 June 1905.