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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Kuwait, Asia Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. IOR/L/PS/10/977

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/977
Title:
File 1749/1921 ‘Persian Gulf:- Residency news summaries 1921-25’
Scope & Content:
This volume mainly contains copies of printed monthly summaries of news (Bushire Residency Diary entries) received by the British Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, and India Office Political Department minute papers prefacing and commenting on the news summaries. The news summaries cove...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Mar 1921-29 Mar 1926
Extent:

1 volume (243 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/3304

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3304
Title:
Coll 25/1 'Orders in Council: Koweit; Reports on working of'
Scope & Content:
Short annual reports on the workings of the Kuwait Order-in-Council 1925 and 1935 for the years 1930-1947. The reports contain information on the civil and criminal cases tried and the numbers of British subjects and British protected persons registered during each year. The reports were sent b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Mar 1931-20 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (41 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/3317

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3317
Title:
Coll 25/14 'Orders in Council: Koweit: New Order'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence (copies, drafts, and originals), memoranda, and notes concerning the drafting and issuing of The Kuwait Order in Council, 1935. The papers deal with the discussion of the need for a new order in council because of the growth of the oil industry and the likely increase of foreigner...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jul 1932-11 Sep 1947
Extent:
1 file (263 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/3330

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3330
Title:
Coll 25/25 'Orders in Council: Kuwait and Bahrain: Celebration of marriages between foreigners by Political Agents at Bahrain and Koweit'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, drafts, and minute papers relating to the drafting and issue of amendments to The Christian Marriage Regulation, 1922, made under the Bahrain Order in Council, 1913. Amendments to the regulation were thought necessary in order to authorise the Political Agent, Bahrain, to marry n...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 May 1937-18 May 1948
Extent:
1 file (115 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/4252

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4252
Title:
Coll 37/18 'Travellers. Persian Gulf, Arab States, Arabia: Lady Dorothy Mills: Mrs Howard Clitty: Mrs M. A. Cairnes: Miss Palmer Smith: Mrs Greenway: Lady Qadir & Miss Clements.'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of letters, telegrams and other papers relating to seven different applications to visit the Persian Gulf (mainly Kuwait, Yemen and Bahrain), which were submitted during the period 1931-35 by the following: Mrs Winifred J Howard-Clitty, Dorothy Mills, Mrs Margaret Maria...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Dec 1931-4 Sep 1937
Extent:
1 file (82 folios)

6. Photo 496/6(34)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 496/6(34)
Title:
Koweit: Cargo Boats. Photographer: Rev. Edwin Aubrey Storrs-Fox
Scope & Content:
View taken off Koweit [Kuwait], probably from on board ship, showing cargo boats under sail. Inscriptions: Lower left, below image, in pen: ‘Koweit.’ Upper left, above image, in pencil, crossed-out: ‘b’ Lower right, alongside image, in pencil: ‘34’ Lower right, below image, in pen: ‘Cargo B...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1918
Extent:
1 b&w silver gelatin print

7. Photo 496/6(35)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 496/6(35)
Title:
Koweit: Customs House. Photographer: Rev. Edwin Aubrey Storrs-Fox
Scope & Content:
View in Koweit [Kuwait] outside the customs house, which is presumably the low-lying structure on the right of the photograph. A large crowd of men are gathered at the entrance, while others appear to be walking towards the building. On the right, a boy looks directly towards the camera. In the ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1918
Extent:
1 b&w silver gelatin print

8. Photo 496/6(36)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 496/6(36)
Title:
Koweit: Coffee Shop. Photographer: Rev. Edwin Aubrey Storrs-Fox
Scope & Content:
View in Koweit [Kuwait] outside a coffee shop. A number of men and boys sit on benches outside the building, looking towards the camera. Woven reed blinds are rolled above two pointed arches along the façade. Inscriptions: Lower left, below image, in pen: ‘Koweit.’ Upper left, above image, i...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1918
Extent:
1 b&w silver gelatin print

9. Photo 496/6(37)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 496/6(37)
Title:
Koweit. Photographer: Rev. Edwin Aubrey Storrs-Fox
Scope & Content:
View of an urban area of Koweit [Kuwait], with a group of men seated and standing on the left. In the background stone buildings give way to reed-mat covered awnings, especially at right. Inscriptions: Lower left, below image, in pen: ‘Koweit.’ Upper left, above image, in pencil, crossed-out...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1918
Extent:
1 b&w silver gelatin print

10. Photo 496/6(38)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 496/6(38)
Title:
Koweit. Photographer: Rev. Edwin Aubrey Storrs-Fox
Scope & Content:
View in Koweit [Kuwait]. One man stands at centre while to his left another sits on the step in front of a decorated archway. A third man stands in the right background against a whitewashed wall. All three men wear dark outer robes, keffiyehs and agals. Inscriptions: Lower left, below imag...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1918
Extent:
1 b&w silver gelatin print