Newspaper cutting from an unknown paper with date ‘Tues May 17th 1913’ inserted in black ink at top of the page. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Map of the Persian Gulf region issued with an article ‘British Interest in the Gulf’ to illustrate the Baghdad Railway with propo...
‘ROUGH PLAN SHOWING RELATIVE POSITION OF BAGDAD RAILWAY MATERIAL DEPÔT AND ADJACENT PROPERTIES’
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Distinctive Features: Properties labelled for reference with some measurements reported. Site of Bagdad Railway Material Depot indicated as ‘German property’ and shown by red pecked line with land hired from the Turkish Government separated by black line. Turkish Marine Ground and Turkish Dock ...
Distinctive Features: Soundings recorded in feet. Sketch map produced by Captain Owen of the SS Magna in relation with Ras Tanurah anchorage matter, sent with letter to Colonel Cox dated 24th March 1911.
Imprint: Harrison & Son Lith. St. Martins Lane, W.C. (90.3/13. 2496) F.O. Asiatic Turkey 2808 CC-2. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Proposed limits of Kuwait authority indicated by red line. Includes an explanatory note on sources used in compiling th...
Imprint: Harrison & Sons Lith. St. Martins Lane, W.C. Distinctive Features: Map issued as an Annex no. 5A to Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 29 July 1913 with roads and overland and submarine telegraph lines shown. Blue line runs from Jazirat az Zakhnūnīyah to the centre of Rub' al Khali. Co...
Imprint: S.D.O. Topo. Dy. No. 14, Exd. C.J.A., April 1911. Distinctive Features: Map produced to illustrate the proposed railway and irrigation scheme in Mesopotamia recommended by Sir William Willcocks. Includes a key and an explanatory note on railways with distances between Baghdad and Ba...
‘PLAN SHOWING SHATT EL ARAB FROM KURNA TO BASRA, AND RESPECTIVE POSITIONS APPROXIMATELY OF LYNCH DOCK AT MAGIL, THE BAGDAD RAILWAY MATERIAL DEPÔT, AND THE TOWN OF BASRA’
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Distinctive Features: Produced in Basra, Sept. 1912 and signed ‘Sd. F.E. Crow H. Ms. Consul’. Rough plan of area north of Basra with location of German Depot and British Consulate shown. In the bottom left-hand corner printed: ‘S.D.O. No. 606. Dec. 1912’.
‘COPY FROM A TRACING OF A PORTION OF THE CHART OF THE SHATT EL ARAB – MAGHIL TO BASRA, SUPPLIED BY LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER CAMPBELL OF THE R.I.M.S. “COMET”.’
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Distinctive Features: Title continues: ‘ON WHICH I HAVE MARKED THE BAGDAD RAILWAY MATERIAL DEPÔT IN RED INK’. Rough plan showing Basra and environs with the location of German Depot and Customs indicated. British Consulate’s coordinates reported. In the bottom left-hand corner printed: ‘S.D.O....
‘MAP TO SHOW THE LIMITS OF KOWEIT AND ADJACENT COUNTRY’
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Imprint: Harrison & Sons Lith. St. Martins Lane, W.C. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Limits indicated by red, green and black lines and explained in ‘F.O. Memorandum of Feb. 28, 1913’. Bottom right below neat line: '(200. 2/13. 2479) F.O. 1370'. Other copies of thi...
‘MAP TO SHOW THE LIMITS OF KOWEIT AND ADJACENT COUNTRY. Annexe V’
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Imprint: Harrison & Sons Lith. St. Martins Lane, W.C. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Limits indicated by red and green lines. Bottom left hand corner below neat line: '(1000. 5/13. 2567) F.O. 1370'. Other copies of this map hold at folio 25 and folio 294. Inscriptions:...