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1. 10370.cc.35, 9(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
10370.cc.35, 9(12)
Title:
The Post Office [Edinburgh]. Photographer: Wilson, George Washington
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the Princes Street frontage of the Post Office.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1868
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 74790(32)

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 74790(32)
Title:
'Pippa passes.' Asolo. View from the Piazza. Photographer: Griffin, William Hall
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along a street leading off from the piazza, with the post office on the left, and the tower of the Catharine Cornaro's house behind.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

3. Add Or 377

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 377
Title:
Spearman or post-runner
Scope & Content:
Spearman or post-runner.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1830-1840
Extent:
1 Item

4. Add Or 1603

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 1603
Title:
Bombay Post Peon with satchel and letters; Bombay Police Peon with whip
Scope & Content:
(a) Bombay Post Peon with satchel and letters. Inscribed: ‘Bombay Post Peon.’ (b) Bombay Police Peon with whip. Inscribed: ‘Bombay Police Peon.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 Item

5. Add Or 2551

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2551
Title:
A Punjabi post-runner with a satchel of letters hanging from a spear over his shoulder.. Artist(s): Kapur Singh (fl.1866)
Scope & Content:
A Punjabi post-runner with a satchel of letters hanging from a spear over his shoulder. By Kapur Singh, an Amritsar artist. 15 October 1866. Inscribed by Augustus Honner on album page: ‘Kupoor Sing of Umritsar 15/10/66’; on mount: ‘A dak Runner or Postman - where there is no ‘mail cart’. The...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1866
Extent:
1 Item

6. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/7, f 70

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/7, f 70
Title:
‘Map accompanying Military Report on Persia Vol. I’
Scope & Content:
The key to the map indicates: roads actually in use with wheeled vehicles; roads fit for passage of wheeled artillery; camel tracks; railway lines; telegraph lines and telegraph offices; post offices; boundaries, both demarcated and undemarcated. Also indicated are rivers and waterways; settlemen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1930
Extent:
1 map

7. IOR/L/PS/5/395, ff 106-148

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/395, ff 106-148
Title:
Aden and Mocha Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 52 of 1841, dated 19 June 1841. The enclosures are dated 5 May to 16 June 1841, and relate to affairs at Aden and the surrounding area, and at Mocha. The...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Jun 1841
Extent:
1 item (43 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/2996

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2996
Title:
Coll 20/36 'Muscat: Proposal (by a Mr C. S. J. Collier) to institute a State Post Office in Muscat'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence between Charles Saint John Collier and various offices and departments of the British and Indian governments, including the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, the India Office, and the Treasury. The correspondence is regarding Collier's attempts to institute a State Post Off...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Mar 1940-13 Mar 1941
Extent:
1 file (29 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/4114A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4114A
Title:
Coll 35/12 'Kuwait: post and telegraph office; participation of Iraq in Empire Air Mail Scheme'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the Post and Telegraph Office in Kuwait and its development, to sustain the growing oil industry in Kuwait. The file contains: Proposed transfer of the control of the Post Office from Iraq to the Government of India, 1925-29 Proposed abolition of the Iraq Post and Telegraph Of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
7 Feb 1925-26 Mar 1941
Extent:
1 file (543 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/4114B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4114B
Title:
Iraqi Post and Telegraph Guide 1930
Scope & Content:
Printed volume containing details and rules of posting in Iraq. Key chapters in the volume cover: Inland post Foreign post Foreign parcel post Money orders Official post articles Railway post letters Telegraphs. There are some loose folios in an envelope, placed at the back of the volume. These...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1930-c 1939
Extent:
1 file (229 folios)

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