General No. 6 of 1882, Correspondence Concerning a Proposal to Retain the Services of Assistant Surgeon Abd-ur-Rahim in the Political Department
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This item consists of a General Despatch with enclosures from the Government of India’s Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, Number 6 of 1882, dated 20 February 1882. The enclosures date from 20 June 1878 to 14 October 1881 and concern the replacement of the Assistant Surgeon ...
[Group in front of tent, with] Muhammad Geldi Khan Goklan in centre. Russian Armenian to his left. Photographer: Watson, John Williams
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of three men and two youth, all wearing thick black woollen hats, posed in front of an 'alachik' or dome-shaped tent. 'In the morning, as we were starting, we were welcomed by Muhammad Geldi Khan, cousin and successor of Subhan Kuli Khan who had entertain...
[Group in front of tent, with] Muhammad Geldi Khan Goklan in centre. Russian Armenian to his left. Photographer: Watson, John Williams
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of three men and two youth, all wearing thick black woollen hats, posed in front of an 'alachik' or dome-shaped tent. 'In the morning, as we were starting, we were welcomed by Muhammad Geldi Khan, cousin and successor of Subhan Kuli Khan who had entertain...
‘Sketch Map Showing the Approximate Locations of the Bahrein Oil Co's. Establishments and other Important Points’
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The map illustrates Bahrein Island [Bahrain], and shows the location of Key Bahrein Oil Company establishments on the island. The locations of Manama, Muharraq Town, and Rifa'a-Ash-Sharki are indicated. The locations of the landing ground and the alighting area for flying boats have been underli...
Map of the Aden Protectorate, with the terrain of the region printed in brown, and other cartographic details overprinted in black, including: metalled roads; paths; trigonometric points with heights marked in feet; wells; passes; rivers; hills; streams; fortified houses; shallow wells; villages.
Lachung village, with ancient moraines above. Photographer: Paul, Alfred Wallace
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Genre: Landscape Photography Facing p. 29. General view of village: 'Paul took two photographs of the village and moraines with a hroup. I particularly wished to get in the moraines, as Sir Joseph Hooker describes them so fully, and I hoped to send him a photograph to compare with his own pictu...
Yamdo Chu River in the Lachen Valley. Photographer: Macaulay, Colman Patrick Louis
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Genre: Landscape Photography Mounted facing p. 31. View upstream towards waterfall: 'About half a mile further we came to the Yamdo Chu fed entirely by a magnificent waterfall. We timed the fall of the water from the top, and found it to be 6 to 6 and a half seconds. The waterfall came from a d...