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71. IOR/L/PS/20/C190

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C190
Title:
Mesopotamia
Scope & Content:
This volume is a confidential handbook on Mesopotamia prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office, dated February 1919. There is a table of contents which includes the following chapters: I: 'Geography Physical and Political', including 'Position and Frontiers', ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1919
Extent:

1 volume (76 folios)

72. IOR/P/525 Sep 1875 nos 01-02

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/P/525 Sep 1875 nos 01-02
Title:
Report on the plague in Mesopotamia [Iraq]
Scope & Content:
pp 419-29. Comprising: Communication from Colonel J P Nixon, Political Agent and Consul-General in Baghdad, reporting on the plague, quarantine, and the potential impact on the wool trade, and enclosing: Report by Surgeon Major W H Colvill, Civil Surgeon at Baghdad, on his investigation into pla...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1875
Extent:
11 pages

73. IOR/P/1664 Apr 1881 nos 38-67

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/P/1664 Apr 1881 nos 38-67
Title:
Imposition of quarantine at Aden and elsewhere in consequence of the outbreak of plague in Mesopotamia [Iraq]
Scope & Content:
pp 101-29. Copy correspondence and telegrams regarding the outbreak of plague in Mesopotamia, and actions taken by the Government of India in response. Includes communications received from the Government of Bombay; Brigadier-General F A E Loch, Political Resident, Aden; C A Cookson, Consul at E...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1881-Apr 1881
Extent:
27 pages

74. IOR/X/3174

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/3174
Title:
'The line of Route as traversed by Lieut[enan]t. Rob[er]t. Taylor 2nd. Mad[ra]s. Cavalry from Bagdad to Bussorah via the antient [ancient] canal of the Hye'
Scope & Content:
Covers a 350-mile river route in Mesopotamia between Bagdad [Baghdad, Iraq] and Bussorah [Basra, Iraq] via the River Tigris, Hye Canal [Shatt al Gharraf, Iraq] and River Euphrates. Portrays hydrology, settlements and place names, and includes topographical and navigational notes, and some pictor...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1813
Extent:

1 map sheet

75. Mss Eur F112/571, ff 2-4

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/571, ff 2-4
Title:
'Map of Eastern Turkey in Asia, Syria and Western Persia. Disposition. 7.4.20.'
Scope & Content:
Three copies of map sheet Geographical Section, General Staff No. 2901, comprising a base map with overprints. The base map bears the imprint 'Published by the Royal Geographical Society, 1910. Railways inserted to November, 1917' and portrays hydrology, relief by spot heights, roads, telegraph...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917-1920
Extent:

3 map sheets

76. Mss Eur F231/32, ff 3-4

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/32, ff 3-4
Title:
‘Letters from Sir J. Outram received July 7. 1857.’
Scope & Content:
This bundle consists of letters from Sir James Outram received 7 July 1857, consisting of summaries of letters sent from Mohamra [Mohammerah, now Khorramshahr] and Baghdad to Lord Clarendon (George William Frederick Villiers, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) (17 May, 23 May, and 4...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jul 1857
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

77. Photo 1104(54)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1104(54)
Title:
View from power house chimney Baghdad. Photographer(s): Unknown
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1919
Extent:

1 item

78. TRIG/77

Reference (shelfmark):
TRIG/77
Title:
Iraq. Various Surveys.
Scope & Content:
Comprises the following items. Compiled by Iraq-based War Office units unless stated otherwise. Survey Data and Material Used for the 1:500,000 Iraq, GSGS 3954. Reports on method and progress diagrams. Notes for guidance of future Survey Officers, and procedures. Tables for astro observations a...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1923-1939
Extent:

7 folders