‘Sketch map reduced from Sir R.M. Stephenson’s Railway map of Europe and Asia in 1850 and of China in 1863 Shewing the Proposed Railway Communication Connecting Europe and Asia. By Sir Rowland Macdonald Stephenson. 1882’
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Imprint: London, Connell Litho. 37 Castle St. Holborn E.C. Distinctive Features: Outline map showing the completed and proposed railway scheme in Europe and Asia, with lines coloured for reference and explained in a key provided in the lower centre of sheet. Below title the note: London, B...
Distinctive Features: Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Tracing of a sketch map of Persia showing routes from Bushire [Bushehr] to Shiraz, Firozabad [Firuzabad], Marghab and onwards to Ispahan with settlements marked, including the location of Persepolis. Notations concerning the ter...
Sketch map of the Arabian coast between Al Katif and Ras Jibsk
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Distinctive Features: Relief shown by shading and spot heights. Hand drawn sketch map showing the Arabian coast of the Persian Gulf between Al Katif and Ras Jibsk. Notations concerning the topography of the region cover the face of the map with graticule lines with degrees of latitude inserte...
Imprint: Lithographed at the Bombay Education Society's Press. Signed John Beatty B.A.C.E. 3rd Executive Engineer C.D. In charge Canal Duties H.C. Distinctive Features: Map of the Hydrabad Collectorate [province of Sindh, Pakistan] showing the canals and roads with districts outlined in colo...
Photograph of unknown building. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre/Subject Matter: This architectural view of a large, recently-constructed complex of three buildings likely depicts a British residency or agency, although its precise location is unknown. Dates and photographer can also not be ascertained, however, it can be construed that the photograph ...
Genre/Subject Matter This pencil sketch on paper depicts a man reclining against a pillow on a chaise-longue while reading. It is drawn in the style of a caricature, which is in keeping with other figural sketches in this volume and, more broadly, in the related files Mss Eur F140/232 and Mss E...
Genre/Subject Matter These two small watercolour drawings depict scenes taken from life at the Settlement of Aden in 1871. Both drawings focus on Arabs’ use of camels as a form of transport. In the left-hand drawing, four veiled women perch alongside one another atop a litter held in place on...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Oct 1871
Extent:
2 drawings; watercolour and pencil on paper, pasted into volume
The file is a memoir of the career of Major John Evelyn Arnold Bazalgette, covering his service in the British Army and in India and the Persian Gulf. The file consists of three parts. The first part is a draft of a short memoir entitled ‘Jack of all trades’, which recounts Bazalgette’s experie...
Memoirs and Recollections of An Officer of the Indian Political Service
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This file contains a photocopy of a typewritten draft of Sir John Richard Cotton's (b 1909) memoirs of his time in the Indian military and civil service. The memoirs, which were written when the author was 'in his seventy-fourth year', cover his time in the Indian Army, at Aden, Ethiopia, Attock...
Memoir of the Career of Sir Reginald Michael Hadow
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This file consists of a memoir of the career of Sir Reginald Michael Hadow, which records the following: Hadow's motivation; his education and entry into the Indian Civil Service (ICS), and later the Indian Political Service (IPS); his experiences in Russia in 1942, as well as Meshed [Mashhad], ...
