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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Housing Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. IOR/L/PS/10/891

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/891
Title:
File 1913/1920 'Mesopotamia and Palestine: rent of billets in occupation of military; liability of Mesopotamian state for cost of military forces'
Scope & Content:
The item contains correspondence regarding the use of billets by British military forces and civil officials in Mesopotamia [Iraq] in the years following the end of the First World War. Topics discussed include: Efforts to vacate and release as many billets as possible as a way to appease anti-Br...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Jun 1919-15 Feb 1921
Extent:
1 volume (130 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/20/C104/2, f 22v

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C104/2, f 22v
Title:
‘Seiād Dwellings.’
Scope & Content:
A view of Seiād [Ṣayyād] dwellings, made out of bundles of reeds and bulrushes. A group of men, women and children are pictured sitting in front of them. The exact location of the photograph is unknown. ‘Engraved and printed at the Offices of the Survey of India, Calcutta [Kolkata], 1912.’ is pr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912
Extent:
1 photograph

3. IOR/L/PS/20/C104/2, f 28v

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C104/2, f 28v
Title:
‘Gaudār Dwellings.’
Scope & Content:
A view of ‘Gaudār [Gwadar] dwellings’. A group of men, women and children are pictured sitting in front of them. The dwellings are made out of mats and rendered windproof by bundles of reeds. ‘Engraved and printed at the Offices of the Survey of India, Calcutta [Kolkata], 1912.’ is printed under...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912
Extent:
1 photograph

4. IOR/R/15/2/852

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/852
Title:
File 35/8 Municipal Improvements in Bahrain
Scope & Content:
This file contains an exchange of two letters between Cornelius James Pelly, Britain's Political Agent in Bahrain and Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain. The first letter (folio 2), from Pelly to Belgrave, comments on an article about Bahrain that appeared in a publication c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Aug 1948-29 Aug 1948
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)