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11. IOR/L/PS/12/3865

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3865
Title:
Coll 30/131 'Persian Gulf. Pearling. American process for the manufacture of cultured pearls'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials and an American malacologist named Clarence F Hoy. The correspondence concerns a proposal by Hoy to introduce a method for the manufacture of cultured pearls somewhere in the British Empire, with Bahrain mentioned as a possible location...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Aug 1936-1 Oct 1936
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

12. IOR/L/PS/18/B166

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B166
Title:
Memorandum respecting British interests in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The memorandum, printed for the use of the Foreign Office, was compiled on 12 February 1908 and contains information compiled by the India Office on British political and commercial interests in the Persian Gulf, including Pearl Fisheries (folios 58v-63); General Trade Statistics and German Comp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Feb 1908
Extent:

1 file (66 folios)

13. IOR/L/PS/18/B463

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B463
Title:
Government of Bahrain Administrative Report for the Years 1926-1937
Scope & Content:
This volume is an administration report covering the years 1926 to 1937 (though in some subjects the report goes further back than 1926) and deals mainly with the activities of the Bahrain Government. It includes text, photographic images, graphs and tables. The report was based on annual report...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1937
Extent:

1 volume (43 folios)

14. IOR/L/PS/20/C91/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C91/3
Title:
Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol. I. Geneaological Tables-Maps. Part III. J G Lorimer. 1915
Scope & Content:
This volume is Part III of Volume 1 of the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, ’Omān and Central Arabia (Government of India: 1915) compiled John Gordon Lorimer. The contents are divided into two sections and contain genealogical tables of Persian Gulf and Arabian ruling families, and one map, housed...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
1 volume, 22 items (45 folios)

15. IOR/L/PS/20/C91/3, f 27

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C91/3, f 27
Title:
'Pocket No. 25: Enclosure to Part III of Volume I of the Persian Gulf Gazetteer: Chart showing the Pearl Banks along the Arabian Shore of the Persian Gulf between Ras Tanura and Debai'
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: An outline map entitled 'Chart showing the Pearl Banks along Arabian Shore of the Persian Gulf between Ras Tanura and Dabai' issued as an enclosure to Part II of Volume I of the ‘Persian Gulf Gazetteer'. Shows the southern coast of the Persian Gulf between Ras Tanura and D...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

1 map

16. IOR/L/PS/20/C250

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C250
Title:
Persian Gulf précis. (Parts I and II)
Scope & Content:
A printed précis of correspondence on various Persian Gulf subjects, prepared for the Foreign Department of the Government of India, Simla, in July 1911 (Part I) and July 1913 (Part II). The document is divided into two parts. Most subjects relate to Turkish claims to sovereignty in the region, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1913
Extent:

1 file (60 folios)