Diagrammatic sketch map of the Iraqi-Kuwait border area
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Distinctive Features: Hand drawn rough sketch map of the area southwest of Safwan in Iraq, enclosed with a report of Kuwait-Iraq Frontier Incidents dated 29th September 1936 (folios 108-119). Shows the location of camps with number of tents and dates reported. Includes references to cases of sm...
Imprint: ‘Batliboi Litho Works, Bombay 8’. Distinctive Features: Pearl banks indicated by Arabic numerals, the names of topographic features including settlements, islands and pearl beds inserted in Arabic. In the lower right-hand corner of the sheet a descriptive note from the author, this...
Imprint: Malby & Sons Lith. Distinctive Features: Issued by Foreign Office as an annex to ‘Memorandum respecting the Boundaries in Arabia: Anglo-Turkish Arrangements' (E 723/723/91). Map shows frontiers laid down in the Anglo-Turkish Conventions of 1913 and 1914; a neutral zone limits d...
Distinctive Features: Copy of a diagram compiled by the Bahrein Petroleum Company (BAPCO), enclosed in a letter no. P.Z. 398/35 dated 17 January 1935 (folios 41-42). Shows the terminal facilities including pipelines and valves which are described in a memorandum describing the installation of...
File 19/204 I (C 55) Bahrain, Appointment of Financial Adviser, Belgrave and Assistant, Luard
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This file contains correspondence regarding the recruitment of the adviser to Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Charles Belgrave and later, his (Belgrave's) assistant, J. M. Luard. The file contains correspondence with Belgrave and details regarding the process of recruitment, contract negotiati...
File 53/7 X (D 54) Kuwait Affairs, Bin Saud (Captain Shakespeare's Deputation)
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This file contains correspondence regarding relations between the British Government and Abdul Aziz ibn Abdulrahman ibn Faisal Al Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Saud)]. The correspondence also discusses political developments in Kuwait including the deaths of Sha...
Distinctive Features: Tracing of a map of the Qatar Peninsula dated 8th September 1937, sent in reference to the Residency Express letter No. 839-S. Shows the proposed Saudi-Qatar border with motor routes indicated by red pecked lines and location of wells marked. Contains a key to symbols in...
Distinctive Features: Shows western shores of the Persian Gulf with key regional ports marked and underlined in red. The map was produced to illustrate the debate over the port of Zubara, Qatar. Printed version of this map is hold at IOR/R/15/1/319, folio 113.
Distinctive Features: Relief shown by contours. Hand drawn sketch map of Khor Jarama and Khor Hajar enclosed with a copy of a report by Captain W.L. Welsh on reconnaissance of the Sur area dated 14th February 1932 (folios 121-128A). Shows the proposed defence of the anchorage at Khor Jarama...
‘Map Jebel Dukham Camp Bahrain Petroleum Company, Bahrain, Persian Gulf’
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Distinctive Features: Site plan labelled ‘Map #3’ produced on 15 April 1933. Shows the Bahrain Petroleum Company’s camp at Jebel Dukhan with the location of buildings, the oil and water lines marked. Premises labelled for reference with some measurements reported. Oriented with south to the t...