Genre/Subject Matter: Black and white photograph showing a pile of branches, twigs and rocks on a sandy plain in the foreground, with sand dunes and hills in the background. Inscriptions: Upper right, above image, in pen: ‘No 5.’ Left, alongside image, in pen: ‘Sand’, with an arrow pointing...
Copies of Journals Containing Articles on Persia and the Persia Gulf
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This file consists of copies of various journals formerly belonging to George Curzon, which contain articles relating to Persia and the Persian Gulf. The journals are as follows: Five issues of The Geographical Journal (journal of the Royal Geographical Society): volume VIII, no. 5, November 189...
A military report on the Seistan [Sistan] region of Persia, written by Captain J M Home. Printed at the Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, India, 1902. The report contains a preface (folio 3), a glossary (folio 5), and chapters on geography, communications, fortresses...
A confidential report on Persia, compiled by Major A D Geddes, Captain of the General Staff, War Office, 1905. Contained within the report are chapters on the history, ethnography, geography, ports and harbours, communications, trade and resources, military, and administration of Persia. Also i...
Notebook of George Nathaniel Curzon's Travels through Persia
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This volume is a bound notebook with handwritten notes and sketches in pencil by George Nathaniel Curzon. The notes mostly relate to Curzon's travels through Persia in 1889-90. The notebook begins with general notes; later folios resemble diary entries, with date headings included from folio 36 ...
Notebook of George Nathaniel Curzon's travels through Persia
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This volume is a bound notebook with handwritten notes in pencil by George Nathaniel Curzon. The notes, which follow on from an earlier notebook, Mss Eur F112/365, relate to Curzon's travels through Persia in 1889-90. The notes cover the period 25 November 1889 to 2 January 1890 and particularly ...
Map showing the locations of existing and projected railway gauges across the Middle East and surrounding regions. The map is appended to a War Cabinet report entitled 'Railway Policy in Relation to General Military Policy in the Middle East'.
This file contains sections of the handwritten manuscript of the book Persia and the Persian Question by George Nathaniel Curzon. These papers come as part of the full handwritten draft of the book that comprises the shelfmarks Mss Eur F111/30-32. The printed edition of the book, which was publi...
16"/1 mile survey of Calcutta, in 9 sheets (two copies of sheet 5), engraved at the Survey of India Office Calcutta, published 1895, surveyed under the direction of Col. J. Sconce,, I.S.C. and Lt. Col. C. Strahan, R.E., Deputy Surveyor-Generals, by Col. W. Barron, I.S.C., Col. W. H. Wilkins, I.S....
This file consists of letters, notes, and printed material on Persia compiled by George Curzon in the course of conducting research prior to the writing of his book: Persia and the Persian Question. The papers' contents and type vary considerably, but consists primarily of handwritten notes, some...