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1. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/6/1, f 80

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/6/1, f 80
Title:
'Signalling and Heliograph Posts between CHAHBAR AND GEH.'
Scope & Content:
The map accompanies MILITARY REPORT on PERSIA Vol. IV Part I. and shows a region of southern and eastern Persia, indicating short and long distance signalling and heliograph posts between Chahbar [Chahabar] and Geh [Nīkshahr] and points further north. Also shows roads and hydrology. The map bears a ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1922
Extent:
1 map

2. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/6/1, f 81

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/6/1, f 81
Title:
'Sketch map shewing communications between KERMAN and SAIDABAD.'
Scope & Content:
The map is a General Staff India publication marked for official use only, and accompanies MILITARY REPORT on PERSIA Vol. IV Part I. The map shows a region of southern and eastern Persia, indicating roads, paths and heliograph transmitters between Kerman and Saidabad [Sirjan]. The map bears a printi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1922
Extent:
1 map

3. IOR/R/15/2/15

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/15
Title:
File B/4 Flag flying by Wonckhaus, Gray Paul and other Companies
Scope & Content:
The letters, memoranda and other items in the file relate to requests made by steamship companies in Bahrain, to the ruler of Bahrain, Shaikh ‘Īsá bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah, to erect flagstaffs and fly flags on their office buildings, primarily for the purpose of communicating signals to steamships enter...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
24 Aug 1906-15 May 1917
Extent:
1 file (39 folios)

4. Photo 1253/1(58)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1253/1(58)
Title:
'Soldiers of the 72nd (Duke of Albany’s Own Highlanders) Regiment.' A heliograph team equipped with early Aldis lamps and signalling mirrors which were deployed for long-distance mountain-top to mountain-top communications back to Imperial India. Photographer(s): Burke, John (1843–1900)
Scope & Content:
View of sixteen men in uniform posing with signalling devices such as mirrors, lamps, flags and telescopes. There are tents and a building in the background. Facsimile of work photographed by John Burke, 1879. There is a marking 'Burke 271', lower left of the image. Printed by Simon Norfolk, 2011. S...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item