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5741. IOR/L/PS/12/3940, f 63

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3940, f 63
Title:
‘No. 5 Muscat, with Mirani fort and Sultan’s Palace.’
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: This black and white photograph shows a view of Muscat taken from the bay in front of it in the image. There are three ships in the bay, and smoke is visible from guns that have just been fired from the Mirani Fort. The Sultan’s Palace is the building with the flagstaff in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1940
Extent:
1 photograph

5742. IOR/L/PS/12/3941

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3941
Title:
Coll 30/201 ‘Persian Gulf. Judicial. Service of documents upon British subjects in Bahrein Islands.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the service of petitions of alimony and divorce upon British subjects in Bahrain (also spelled Bahrein in the file). The papers include correspondence, dated 1940, regarding an enquiry from the High Commissioner for Canada about the procedure in effecting s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Feb 1940-4 Sep 1947
Extent:

1 file (36 folios)

5743. IOR/L/PS/12/3942

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3942
Title:
Coll 30/202 ‘Persian Gulf. Photographs of Notabilities (Sheikhs &c) (used for propaganda purposes)’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to the use of illustrations for propaganda purposes during the Second World War. It includes correspondence regarding a request from the Ministry of Information for photographs for the Middle East edition of a proposed fortnightly War P...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Aug 1938-20 Jan 1941
Extent:
1 file (30 folios)

5744. IOR/L/PS/12/3942, f 21

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3942, f 21
Title:
Emir Abdullah of Transjordan
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: This print consists of a hand coloured head-and-shoulders portrait photograph of Emir Abdullah of Transjordan [Abdullah I bin al-Hussein], which is surrounded by a green border featuring a white star and crescent in the centre along the top of the border, on a white backgr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 22 Aug 1940
Extent:
1 print

5745. IOR/L/PS/12/3942, f 22

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3942, f 22
Title:
Sultan Sa‘īd bin Taymūr
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: This print consists of a head-and-shoulders colour portrait of Sa‘īd bin Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, surrounded by a green border featuring a white star and crescent in the centre along the top of the border, on a white background.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 22 Aug 1940
Extent:
1 print

5746. IOR/L/PS/12/3942, f 23

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3942, f 23
Title:
Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: This print consists of a hand coloured head-and-shoulders portrait photograph of Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah, Hakim of Bahrain, surrounded by a green border featuring a white star and crescent in the centre along the top of the border, on a white background.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 22 Aug 1940
Extent:
1 print

5747. IOR/L/PS/12/3942, f 31

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3942, f 31
Title:
‘Khan Sahib Said Abdul Razzak al Razzuki Residency Agent, Sharjah. native of Kowait.’
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: This black and white photograph shows Khan Sahib Said Abdul Razzak al Razzuki, Residency Agent, Sharjah in the foreground, with a building behind him in the background. Temporal Context: The creation date is derived from the postmark stamped on an envelope (folio 30) wh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 19 Aug 1938
Extent:
1 photograph

5748. IOR/L/PS/12/3943

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3943
Title:
Coll 30/203 ‘Persian Gulf. Qatar – Proposed engagement of an “adviser on foreign affairs” by the sheikh.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to suspicions that Shaikh Abdullah bin Qasim al Thani [Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī], Ruler of Qatar, desired to obtain an Iraqi adviser on foreign affairs, and objections to this by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the India Office, and the Fo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Sep 1940-13 Nov 1941
Extent:

1 file (12 folios)

5749. IOR/L/PS/12/3944

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3944
Title:
Coll 30/204 ‘Persian Gulf Oil. Future of oil in its relation to the Middle East – Admiralty Memorandum on –’
Scope & Content:
The file contains: a copy of an Admiralty memorandum, dated 11 October 1940, entitled ‘The Future of Oil in its Relation to the Middle East’; and correspondence related to the memorandum and to the arrival in Iran of eight German officers, who were suspected of being involved in activities again...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Dec 1940-27 Nov 1941
Extent:

1 file (31 folios)

5750. IOR/L/PS/12/3945

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3945
Title:
Coll 30/205 'Bahrein: U.S.A. Naval Observer at Bahrein.'
Scope & Content:
The file relates to a request from the United States (US) Government in December 1940 for permission to appoint a Naval Observer to serve at Bahrain (generally referred to in the papers as Bahrein). The United States Government made their request to the Foreign Office in accordance with the term...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Dec 1940-24 Nov 1944
Extent:
1 file (59 folios)

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