Map showing the route of the North Western Railway from Duzdap [Zahedan] to Nok Kondī [Nok Kundi] and beyond
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Map comprised of four Survey of India sheets stuck together, which were published under the direction of Colonel Sir Sidney Gerald Burard, Surveyor General of India, in 1915. The map shows the frontier region of British Baluchistan [in present-day Pakistan] through which the North Western Railwa...
Coll 29/49 'Exchange of visits between officials of British Legation Tehran and naval and political officers in the Persian Gulf'
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The file concerns exchange of visits between officials of British Legation at Tehran, and naval and political officers in the Persian Gulf. The file includes: arrangements for visits of British Legation at Tehran to the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, 1932 and 1935 arrangements for vis...
The volume concerns the Persian Gendarmerie in southern Persia (Fars), and the pro-German feelings of the Swedish officers who were part of it. The volume covers: Accusations against Swedish officers employed by the Persian Gendarmerie in Fars, suggesting that they have been abandoning their ne...
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, and memoranda, comprising miscellaneous correspondence on British involvement in Persia in the period 1917-18. Topics discussed include: A statement (ff 96-97) of South Persia Rifles policy for Southern Persia by the Inspector General...
‘Looking towards Haramosh (43.I. D/1. 6.4) from Chichuboi. (43.I. C/1. 5.0)’
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An aerial photograph taken during a flight by the Royal Air Force from Gilgit to Risalpur on 8 November 1934 at 10:52 at approximately 10,000 feet. This photograph shows a view of Haramosh from Chichuboi with two RAF Hawker Hart aircraft visible towards the bottom of the print; the tip of one of...
‘Foreign Department Notes. Arms Traffic in the Persian Gulf.’
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Printed copies of correspondence and memoranda relating to the arms traffic in the Persian Gulf: a letter from Leonard William Reynolds of the Government of India, dated 29 June 1909 (ff 2-3) a confidential letter from the British Minister to Belgium, Arthur Henry Hardinge, to the Secretary of S...
Lamteng village, head-quarters of Lachen Valley (8,900 [feet]). Photographer: Macaulay, Colman Patrick Louis
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Genre: Landscape Photography Mounted facing p. 32. View along the hillside towards the village: 'Clouds covered Gnaream before the camera came up ... We then turned a corner, and saw the village of Lamteng nestling under Tukcham or D 3. I got a photograph' (p. 32).
Camp at Siphu Rocks, above Tungu (13,600 [feet]). Photographer: Macaulay, Colman Patrick Louis
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Genre: Landscape Photography Facing p. 36. View across snow-covered ground towards the tents of the Macaulay Mission: 'Marched on about a mile to the Siphu Rocks. Hopeless to get coolies on further. Tents pitched on snow a foot thick under shelter of rocks ... I focussed a photograph in the sno...
The meeting of the waters, Lachen and Lachung, at Choonthang. Photographer: Macaulay, Colman Patrick Louis
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Genre: Landscape Photography Mounted facing p. 50. View looking along the river: 'After crossing the Lachung by the usual bridge of branches, I cleared a space whence I took a photograph of the meeting of the waters' (p. 51).
