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1. IOR/R/15/2/1582

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1582
Title:
‘File 16/70 Photographs of Ex-Political Agents & Ex. Asst. Political Agents. Bahrain.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence of a demi-official nature, concerning the Political Agent at Bahrain’s (Cornelius James Pelly) attempts to acquire photographs of his predecessors (and former Assistant Political Agents), so that they might be hung along a staircase in the Political Agency. Some of the replies fro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jun 1945-6 Jan 1946
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

2. Or 7121

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7121
Title:
Hezeliyat-i Süruri-yi Merhum - هزليات سرورى مرحوم
Scope & Content:
This volume contains humorous and satirical poems by Süruri Osman Efendi Hezzal, who had the mahlas of Havai (died 1229 AH/1813-14 CE). The collection consists of gazeller (ff 1-17v; and ff 55v-56r); chronograms (ff 17v-32r), ranging in date from 1187 AH (1773-74 CE) to 1219 AH (1804-05 CE); and...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 text, 56 ff

3. Or 8893

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8893
Title:
Hezeliyat-i Süruri Efendi - هزليات سرورى افندى
Scope & Content:
This volume contains humorous and satirical poems by Seyit Osman Süruri, also known as Süruri-i Müerrih or Süruri-i Hezzal. When writing in a humorous or satirical vein, Süruri would take the mahlas Havai. His death took place in 1229 AH (1813-14 CE). The poems (entitled muzhikat in other copi...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1267
Extent:
1 text, 46 ff

4. Or 9514

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9514
Title:
Letaif-i merhum Kani Efendi - لطائف مرحوم كانى افندى
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a collection of prose and verse satirical works associated with Ebü Bekr Kani Efendi (died 1206 AH/1791-92 CE). According to a note on the first folio, Kani was not intentionally a satirist, but inspired humour in others. These funny stories that are associated with Kani ema...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1224
Extent:
1 text, 94 ff

5. Photo 1411(45)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1411(45)
Title:
Blackberrying - The pleasures. Photographer: Hooper, Willoughby Wallace
Scope & Content:
View of a couple picking blackberries along a fence line. Corresponds to Photo 1441(46). Inscription in ink: ‘Blackberrying’, ‘The pleasures’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1869-1880
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1411(46)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1411(46)
Title:
Blackberrying - The drawbacks. Photographer: Hooper, Willoughby Wallace
Scope & Content:
View of a man falling over and a woman laughing along a blackberry fence line. Corresponds to Photo 1441(45). Inscription in ink: ‘The drawbacks’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1869-1880
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1411(66)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1411(66)
Title:
Returning from the Picnic. Photographer: Hooper, Willoughby Wallace
Scope & Content:
A staged scene with two men. One man is by the gate, trying to lift a wheelbarrow with the other passed out. The man by the gate is Willoughby Wallace Hooper. Inscription in ink: ‘A.R.M’, ‘W.W.H’, ‘Returning from the Picnic’, '11-10-69’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Oct 1869
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1411(83)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1411(83)
Title:
Caught napping. Photographer: Hooper, Willoughby Wallace
Scope & Content:
View of a man asleep on a garden bench with five women surrounding him. Inscription in ink: ‘Caught napping’, ‘26-10-69’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Oct 1869
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1411(87)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1411(87)
Title:
Rubbish to be shot here. Photographer: Hooper, Willoughby Wallace
Scope & Content:
View of a man in a wheelbarrow with two women surrounding him, one trying to lift the wheelbarrow and the other with a spade. Inscription in ink: ‘Rubbish to be shot here’,’ 23-10-69’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Oct 1869
Extent:
1 item