Chomiomo (22,290 [feet]) and glacier. Photographer: Paul, Alfred Wallace
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Genre: Landscape Photography Mounted facing p. 37. View showing porters climbing the pass, with glaciers and peaks beyond: 'At Chomiom Chu we got a magnificent view of Chomiomo (22,290), with precipices of solid ice above black cliffs hung with gigantic icicles and a stupendous glacier broken i...
The volume contains manuscript copies of secret letters, despatches, memoranda, translations of letters, intelligence reports, financial statements, and other papers relating to diplomatic, military, and logistical aspects of the British-led invasion of Afghanistan in 1839 by the so-called Army ...
File 283/1912 'Disorders in South Persia: representations from Indian and British firms'
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The file contains correspondence relating to disruption of Indian and British trade in Persia owing to insecurity. Most of the correspondence consists of representations from Indian and British firms to the British Government asking for protection, and the discussion between the Government of In...
File 868/1912 Pt 1 'Arms traffic: arrangements at Muscat for its regulation'
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The volume contains telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, notes, printed reports and a press cutting relating to the arms traffic in Muscat and arrangements for its regulation. Issues discussed include: negotiations between the Foreign Office, India Office and the Sultan of Muscat...
File 5118/1917 ‘Persia: British Cordon on Eastern Frontier (Meshed-Seistan Telegraph Line)’
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This volume contains papers about the British cordon on the Eastern Frontier of Persia [Iran], from October 1917 to September 1920. The papers are comprised of correspondence, chiefly between the India Office, the Consul-General at Meshed [Mashhad], the Foreign Office, the Viceroy of India, and t...
The file contains correspondence regarding the stipends and pensions paid to tribal chiefs in the Aden Protectorate. The majority of the payments were established by treaty, and were paid to maintain trade routes. Government funding for Darbar presents is also discussed. The following agreemen...
This file concerns personal salutes given by British naval ships to dignitaries in the Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia). The correspondence, largely between officials of the Admiralty and the Foreign Office, begins with discussion about the number of gun salutes that should be...
This file relates to British Indian (and later, Indian and Pakistani) representation in Jedda, Saudi Arabia. The earlier correspondence (1937-1946) concerns successive appointments for the position of Indian Vice-Consul at Jedda, whose main responsibilities relate to the interests of Indian pil...
