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Reference (shelfmark):: WD3479
Title:: 'Rough Pencil Sketch from the Point Bungalo Ras Marbut, Aden' by Stafford Bettesworth Haines
Scope & Content:: Genre/Subject Matter: View of the verandah of Haines’s bungalow at Ras Marbut [Ra’s Marbūţ] looking towards Little Aden. Haines sits facing away from the viewer at right, apparently sketching. His wife and another woman stand at centre in profile, looking out to sea. Several chairs, benches and...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1839-54
Extent:: 1 watercolour and pencil drawing on paper

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3483
Title:: Houses at the foot of mountains, probably Aden
Scope & Content:: Genre/Subject Matter: View of several colonial buildings at the foot of mountains, probably at Aden. This unfinished pencil sketch may depict Haines’ first residence in Crater. A cross or flagstaff on the lowest peak at upper centre may provide additional clues as to its location. Inscripti...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1839-54
Extent:: 1 pencil drawing on paper

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3520
Title:: ‘Inscriptions found at a cave near Wadi Shakhowee.' by Sanders, Hulton and Smith
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1820s-1854
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3527
Title:: 'Gebel Shumshum. Aden from Ras Tarshayen.' by John Cumming Anderson (1825-70)
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1846
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3528-3532
Title:: Drawings of the coast around Aden and along the Red Sea made during Elwon’s survey to establish the best course for steamers travelling to and from Suez by Thomas Elwon (1793/4-1835)
Scope & Content:: Genre/Subject Matter: A series of coastal profiles in pencil record the survey of the Red Sea undertaken by Captain Thomas Elwon of the Benares that took place between 1829-1834 to establish the best course for steamers to and from Suez. Taken from a sketch book inscribed on the first page ‘C...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1829-1834
Extent:: 9 topographical views on 4 sheets of paper

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3533-3536
Title:: Drawings of the coast around Aden and along the Red Sea made during Elwon’s survey to establish the best course for steamers travelling to and from Suez by Thomas Elwon (1793/4-1835)
Scope & Content:: Genre/Subject Matter: A series of coastal profiles in pencil, mostly incomplete, record the survey of the Red Sea undertaken by Captain Thomas Elwon of the Benares that took place between 1829-1834 to establish the best course for steamers to and from Suez. Taken from a sketch book inscribed ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1829-1834
Extent:: 9 topographical views on four sheets of paper

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/RAS/ADE/2
Title:: 'Map of the Country in the Vicinity of Aden Arabia'. Created by Lieutenant Thomas Geoghegan, Commandant Aden Troop. 1884.
Scope & Content:: Covers a sixty-mile length of coastline in western Aden Protectorate, extending approximately twelve miles inland. Portrays hydrology, relief by hachures, roads and tracks, water sources and place names. Rectos of both maps bear a manuscript note stating that the work 'could have been used' on...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1884
Extent:: 2 map sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/RAS/ADE/3
Title:: Aden West of Mukalla. Plotted from Air-Photos by R[oyal].A[ir].F[orce]. Aden. [1929]
Scope & Content:: Bromide copy of composite produced from three sheets at an original scale of 1:253,440. Covers an area approximately twenty miles west of Mukalla in southern Aden Protectorate and extending a further hundred miles westwards and eighty miles northwards. Portrays hydrology, relief by forms lines,...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English and Farsi
Date Range:: 1929
Extent:: 1 map sheet

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