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171. IOR/L/PS/5/433, f 504

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/433, f 504
Title:
Sketch of minaret in Aden
Scope & Content:
Ink sketch by Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent at Aden, of the 'one Minaret of olden time erect in Aden'.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Nov 1844
Extent:
1 drawing

172. IOR/L/PS/5/445, f 246

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/445, f 246
Title:
Plan of the Summit of Marbut shewing the Houses and Forts recommended
Scope & Content:
A sketch plan of the summit of Ras Marbut [Ra’s Marbut] with separate drawings of three elevation details (A, B and C). The plan shows the locations of the dwellings of various British Government and army officers and three sections labelled: ‘A. Battery & Tower about to be erected as th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Aug 1846
Extent:
1 plan

173. IOR/L/PS/5/445, f 247

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/445, f 247
Title:
Plan of Ras Morbut and Entrance to Western Bay. Aden
Scope & Content:
Map of Ras Morbut [Ra’s Marbut] including lines showing: The range of Captain Haines’s battery [Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent, Aden] The range of the Committee’s battery The range of Lieutenant Curtis’s battery The entrance to the harbour, Ras Morbut and Ras Torshyan. Five referen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Aug 1846
Extent:
1 map

174. IOR/L/PS/5/447, f 148

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/447, f 148
Title:
Plan to accompany Committee's Report on the proposed PIER OF OBSTRUCTION
Scope & Content:
Map indicating the coast line, with Long Island opposite, two proposed positions of the pier, and information on extreme low tide. The map is signed by the four members of the Committee that was convened to decide the best site for the construction of the pier of obstruction and is dated 'Aden,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Oct 1846
Extent:
1 map sheet

175. IOR/L/PS/5/448, f 76

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/448, f 76
Title:
Map Showing the Passage of EIC Steamers Comet, Nimrod, and Meteor During the Battle of Hyderabad
Scope & Content:
This item comprises the foldout of an untitled copy of a tinted map with a key and orientation, but lacking dimensions. It shows the course of the river near the village of Kotmeer [Kot Mir Muhammad Khan?] on the road to Hydrabad [Hyderabad] and the southward passage of the East India Company’s ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Mar 1847
Extent:
1 map sheet

176. IOR/L/PS/5/448, f 493

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/448, f 493
Title:
‘Ras Hafoon, African Coast’
Scope & Content:
This item comprises a line drawn map laid out within a grid of latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates to scale (20 miles to five inches), but lacking a key, showing the Ras Hafoon [Raʾs Hafun] island and sandy land bridge linked to the north-eastern coast of Berbera [Somalia], Africa. The map s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 May 1847
Extent:
1 item (1 folio)

177. IOR/L/PS/5/449, f 451

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/449, f 451
Title:
Sketch of the Native Town of Aden Showing the Proposed Drainage
Scope & Content:
Sketch of the ‘Native Town of Aden’ showing the drainage system proposed to prevent damage to the town of Aden by future rainfalls. Originally signed by Lieutenant-Colonel C W Grant, Superintending Engineer, Aden, and copied in the Chief Engineer’s Office, Bombay [Mumbai], 15 February 1847.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Feb 1847
Extent:
1 sketch

178. IOR/L/PS/5/455, f 353

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/455, f 353
Title:
ROUGH MAP of the SOMALI COAST Shewing THE DIVISIOS OF THE TRIBES and the COURSE OF THE WEBBISHEBEYLI AND THE WEBBI GUNANA commonly called THE WEBBI and the JOOB
Scope & Content:
Map drawn by Lieutenant Charles John Cruttenden, Assistant Political Agent, Aden, included in his report entitled ‘Memoir on the Western or Edoor [Dir] Tribe inhabiting the Somali Coast’. The map shows the Horn of Africa, indicating the tribes that inhabit each area, as well as hydrology and set...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1848
Extent:
1 map sheet

179. IOR/L/PS/5/464, f 54

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/464, f 54
Title:
‘PLAN ELEVATION & SECTION of the Old Arab Bridge across the “Khore Maksa”’
Scope & Content:
A plan of the bridge across the Khore Maksa [Khawr Maksar] creek at Aden, with an elevation of the bridge. The scale of this elevation is sixty feet to an inch. There is also an elevation of a section of the bridge, marked C.D., the scale of which is twenty feet to an inch. The plan is signed ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 February 1850
Extent:
1 plan

180. IOR/L/PS/5/464, f 513

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/464, f 513
Title:
‘A Plan of the Foum Dibe Corresponding with the ancient Mendesian Mouth of the Nile’
Scope & Content:
The plan shows the position of the Foum Dibe, the canal or inlet from the Mediterranean Sea to Lake Menzaleh [Birkat al Manzilah], corresponding with the ancient Mendesian mouth of the Nile. The plan includes brief descriptions of topography, and also indicates hydrology, vegetation, a fort, and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1849
Extent:
1 plan