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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 174
Title:: Album: 'Views of Mecca and Medina' by H. A. Mirza & Sons, Photographers
Scope & Content:: The album contains historical and architectural views of Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia, which relate to a South Asian Muslim perspective of the hadj. Contents: 1 'Picture of the Tents of the Turks' 2 'Picture of the Sanctuary of Medina the Radiant' 3 'Picture of the City of Mecca the Grea...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Urdu
Date Range:: c 1907
Extent:: 13 b/w photographic prints within blue card mounts, bound into one volume

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/RAS
Title:: 'Material - Rest of World' - Asia
Scope & Content:: The holdings in this part of the War Office Archive principally relate to China, Turkey-in-Asia, and Arabia. The material includes route surveys and itineraries, in many cases with accompanying topographical notes and name lists
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: Chinese, English, and Urdu
Date Range:: 1899-1941
Extent:: 2,200 map sheets and 1,200 pages, approximately

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/RAS/CHI/188/1/2
Title:: 'P[lane] T[able] & P[rismatic] C[ompass] Surveys' - War Office ledger
Scope & Content:: Shows hydrology, relief, and settlements. Some sheets include annotations in Arabic script. Minor settlements and stations along the route are numbered. Sheet 9 comprises plans of Suichow (隨州), Tsaoyang (棗陽), Tungpeh (桐柏), Yingshan (應山), and Shiaohotsi (小河溪), all at scale 1:15,840.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English and Urdu
Date Range:: 1906
Extent:: 9 map sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/RAS/CHI/212
Title:: Maps of two routes in north-east Chihli [直隸] province, surveyed by Lieutenant Webster and Colour Havildar Lachman Pershad. 'Tracing of Survey by Mr R.B. Morehead 1902' - War Office envelope
Scope & Content:: The principal route runs from Shihmenkai (石門寨) (12 miles north of Chinwangtao (秦皇島)), northwards to Chienchang (建昌) and Mangniuyingtze (蟒牛營子), north-west to Kienchang Hsien (建昌縣), finally south-west to Sanshikiatze (三十家子). The other route runs from Jehol (熱河) southwards to Malankwan (馬蘭關), 2 mile...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English and Urdu
Date Range:: 1903
Extent:: 4 map sheets and a cover sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/RAS/CHI/224
Title:: Route surveys in eastern China, 'chiefly Ho-nan [河南] and Shan-tung [山東] Provinces. Also partly in Hu-pei [湖北], An-hui [安徽], & Southern Chih-li [直隸] Provinces. By Lieut Webster & Naik Shiv Dayal Singh & Havr. Man Singh 1903-04' - title sheet
Scope & Content:: 17 sets of maps with accompanying lists of place-names. Titles are taken from the printed slip headed 'Originals' attached to the first map in each set by Intelligence Branch, North China Command. 'Survey carried out in connection with "Report on Honan Province"'. The maps sheets include Arabic s...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: Chinese, English, and Urdu
Date Range:: 1903-1906
Extent:: 1 title sheet and 32 map sheets with 107 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/RAS/CHI/232/1
Title:: 'Chih-li [直隸] & Shan-hsi [山西] Provinces. Surveys by Lieut Col Wingate, Capt Turner, Havr Marisami & Sowar Harnam Singh & Sepoy Hakim Khan 1905' - wrapper
Scope & Content:: Shows relief with form lines, hydrology, the line of the routes surveyed, and numbered settlements. Place-names are given in Wade-Giles romanisation and in Urdu. The map is drawn in variously oriented multiple sections on the sheets. The set comprises North China Command Intelligence Branch 'O...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English and Urdu
Date Range:: 1905
Extent:: 16 map sheets and a wrapper

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/RAS/CHI/246
Title:: 'Chih-li Province. Survey of the Wei-Chang [圍場].' - War Office ledger. Surveyed and drawn by Sepoy Hussain Khan 30th Punjabis under the direction of Lt H.J. Doveton 21st Punjabis.
Scope & Content:: Route surveys made in the region of the Imperial Hunting Grounds in northern Chihli (直隸). Shows local relief (with form lines), hydrology, numbered settlements, and the routes taken. Pencilled annotations in English and Urdu provide information on terrain and selected place-names in Wade-Giles ro...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English and Urdu
Date Range:: 1904
Extent:: 14 map sheets

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