Printed copy of the Bombay Government Gazette Extraordinary
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The Gazette Extraordinary is an announcement of the annexation by British forces of Pegu [Bagu, Myanmar] in December 1852. The Gazette includes a copy of the Proclamation made by Charles Allen, Officiating Secretary to the Government of India, dated 20 December 1852, and a list of appointments ma...
Distinctive Features: Relief shown by contours. Tracing of a sketch map of Abu Musa Island showing the iron oxide mine, an excavation site on the seashore, pier and anchorage.
Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Provinces labelled Coastline of Oman shown in red with coast between Ras Diba and Khor Kalbah coloured blue. Grid added in pencil.
Distinctive Features: Hand-drawn outline map with certain areas (i.e. the Trucial Coast, area north of Shinas down to Muscat, and Dhofar Crown Estate) defined and annotated with remarks on their revenues. Coastal towns in the Gulf of Oman labelled and represented by encircled dots.
Distinctive Features: This is a printed version of a sketch map hold at IOR/R/15/1/319, folio 100. Shows western shores of the Persian Gulf with key regional ports marked and underlined in red. The map was produced to illustrate the debate over the port of Zubara, Qatar. In the left-hand cor...
‘Rough Sketch Chart of Kuweit, Fao, M’gussa and Surrounding Country’
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Distinctive Features: Hand drawn sketch map of Kuweit [Kuwait], Fao [Al Faw], M'Gussa [Umm Qasr] and surrounding country attached to a letter dated 20th February 1902. Anchorage near M'Gussa [Umm Qasr] and Khor al Subiyah area lettered with their coordinates reported below title. Shows the lo...
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...
Distinctive Features: Coastline between Ras Mussendam (Musandam) and Ras El Hadd (Ras Al Hadd) shown in red with grid added in pencil. Tracing produced from Mr. Bower’s map which was requested by Lieutenant Colonel F.B. Prideaus, in letter dated 19th October 1925, in order to compare it with ...
Blueprint map of Bahrain showing the proposed area for an oil concession covering the Hawar Islands. The proposed concession area has been coloured red on the map. Map enlarged in the Land Department, Government of Bahrain.
Two photographs that depict Richard Henry Barter Snow, State Medical Officer, Bahrain
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Two black and white photographs of Richard Henry Barter Snow held in a plastic sheet on one folio (folio 101). One photograph depicts Snow from the front while standing and wearing a pin-stripe suit, a note on the back of the photograph dates it as 1940. The second photograph is smaller and s...