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Notes and correspondence on the situation in East Persia and the Malleson Mission
Scope & Content:
This file relates to the situation in East Persia and the Malleson Mission (1918-21). It includes papers on the following subjects: A collection of papers titled 'Expenditure on [the] Malleson Mission and Troops in East Persia', including: a memorandum from the India Office Political Department...
Report from General Sir J E Nixon, K C B, Commanding I E F 'D', on the action at Bushire, 9th September 1915
Scope & Content:
This confidential memorandum, compiled by the General Staff, India, and printed at the Government Central Branch Press at Simla, 1915, concerns the action on 9 September 1915, in which a strong body of Tangistani raiders was ousted from Bushire. The memorandum contains a covering letter (folio 2...
Htawgaw Post from the west. The Ngaw chang Hka flows round the north of the ridge on which the post is situated and appears at the bottom of the picture, on the right. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the steeply-sided valley of the Ngawchang River, with Htawgaw Post marked on the print at the highest point of the ridge in the distance.
Looking west from the valley of the Ngawchang Hka from the Htawmshing paddy terraces. Htawgaw is to the south or left of the rocky hills in the distance. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across paddy fields towards mountains.
Looking north down the valley of the Khansheng Hka. Upper Hpare village is on the left. Htawgaw ridge just visible over the spur on the left. The sister valley of the Mansheng Hka over the hill on the right. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the valley, with terrace cultivation of rice on hillside in left foreground. The relative locations of Htawgaw Post, Lower Hpare and the junction of the Khansheng and Mansheng Hka are marked on the print.
Lashis. The man on the right is Labao Nu who accompanied Mr W. A. Hertz as chief interpreter. He also accompanied Mr H. F. Hertz C.I.E. to Hpare in 1899-1900. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of three Lashi men and a young girl.
The loads on the pony. The loads are not correctly tied up on the frame. The leather thongs should pass round and beneath the load, but the method of tying could not be followed from a photo. Photographer: Unknown
