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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/131, ff 349-744
Title:: ‘Negotiations with the Ex-King of Cabool and the Maha Rajah Runjeet Singh’
Scope & Content:: Enclosure nos. 2-102 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of India, dated 13 August 1838. The enclosures are dated 16 May-11 August 1838. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to a plan to overthrow Dost Mahomed Khan [Dūst Muḥammad Khān Bārakzāy] as Emi...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 13 Aug 1838
Extent:: 1 item (396 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/X/14729
Title:: 'Ceylon, One Inch to One Mile', War Office
Scope & Content:: Two sheets from the first edition of topographical map series GSGS 4329, photolithographed and published by War Office 1942. The maps show contours, (including bathymetrical), landscape features, settlements and communications, boundaries, and estates and their principal products. They each have ...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1942-1949
Extent:: 2 sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/X/14738
Title:: Road Map of India
Scope & Content:: The second edition of a Survey of India Road Map of India at a scale of 40 miles to 1 inch. The sheet includes three inset maps at the same scale: A, in the top right corner of the map - covers the northern part of Pakistan and adjacent areas; B, in the bottom right corner, covers East Pakistan a...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1957
Extent:: 1 folded map

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F231/32, ff 9-75
Title:: 'Secret Letters received Aug. 1. 1857.'
Scope & Content:: This bundle consists of summaries of official secret letters received, mainly from the Governor General of India in Council (17 June 1857, Number 30; 19 June 1857, Number 31; 19 June 1857, Numbers 32-35), and from Bombay [presumably the Government of Bombay] (24 June 1857, Numbers 128-132; 25 Jun...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1 Aug 1857
Extent:: 1 item (67 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1306
Title:: Photographs of India and Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Scope & Content:: A miscellaneous collection of photographic views of India and Ceylon, in two principal parts: 1. Folios from a disbound album comprising albumen print views of India (mainly Kashmir and Simla), by Samuel Bourne, W. Baker, John Burke, Baker and Burke and others, 1860s-80s. The majority of the ph...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1863-1955
Extent:: 80 photographs

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1306(38)
Title:: Royal Colombo Yacht Club vs. Madras Sailing Club. At Colombo—Easter 1927 (race abandoned owing to the untimely death of R. J. Elliot). Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Group portrait of club teams Genre: Portrait
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1927
Extent:: 1 photographic print

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1306(39)
Title:: [Group posed beside a car in front of a Hindu temple, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: For another copy of this photograph, printed in postcard format, see Photo 1306(75) Genre: Architectural
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1950
Extent:: 1 photographic print

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1306(41)
Title:: Darawella Club? [Ceylon]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Group portrait of members. Probable location pencilled on reverse of print Genre: Portrait
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1950
Extent:: 1 photographic print

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1306(42)
Title:: Colombo Amateur Dramatics. Photographer: Plâté Ltd
Scope & Content:: Group portrait of production (probably The Pirates of Penzance) Genre: Portrait
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1950
Extent:: 1 photographic print

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