Genre/Subject Matter: This print consists of a hand coloured head-and-shoulders portrait photograph of Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah, Hakim of Bahrain, surrounded by a green border featuring a white star and crescent in the centre along the top of the border, on a white background.
Iraq, Kuwait, Persia & Saudi Arabia. India and Adjacent Countries: Sheet No. 10, Bushire
Scope & Content:
The maps shows the northern end of the Persian Gulf stretching from the bay of Kuwait in the west across to Bushire in the east. The map indicates hydrology, settlements, roads, railway lines, vegetation and provides some indication of relief. A glossary of Persian and Arabic terms used is print...
Arabia, 'Iraq and Persia. India and Adjacent Countries. Sheet No. 10 Bushire
Scope & Content:
The maps shows the northern end of the Persian Gulf stretching from the bay of Kuwait in the west across to Bushire in the east. The map indicates hydrology, settlements, roads, railway lines, vegetation and provides some indication of relief. A glossary of Persian and Arabic terms used is print...
Bahrein. Site of Possible Naval Base (From Admty. Chart No. 3540)
Scope & Content:
The maps shows the north-eastern tip of Bahrain island, primarily al Menama [Manamah] and Muharrak [Muharraq]. The map indicates vegetation, settlements, buildings and the location of proposed British naval facilities (some of which have been marked in pencil directly on to the map).
PROPOSED RESERVATION OF 80FT. WIDE STRIP OF LAND FROM REFINERY TO SITRAH.
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Blueprint sketch map produced by the Bahrain Petroleum Company, enclosed with a letter no. PA 333 (folio 26). Shows the easterly line of the refinery, including a central line representing intended road and pipelines from the refinery site to the Sitrah terminal, with distances and measurements...
Section of Admiralty chart showing channels to Dhulaifain and Ras Tanura
Scope & Content:
The map accompanies a letter (folios 47-50) from Hamilton R Ballantyne, Ballantyne and Company, representing the California Arabian Standard Oil Company Limited (CASOC), to the India Office, dated 8 July 1938. The map shows (marked in red crayon) the channels to the company's two proposed ancho...
‘No.4. 5 ft.2 Barracouda or Sirmahi caught at KHOR KUWAI.’
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Genre/Subject Matter: This black and white photograph shows a man, presumably Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and HM Consul-General, Bushire, with his left hand holding a rope looped around a plank above his head, attached to which is a five foo...
EAST COAST OF ARABIA SHOWING SAUDI ARABIA - BAHREIN PIPE LINE
Scope & Content:
Map showing the east coast of Saudi Arabia, Bahrein [Bahrain] Island, Fasht ad Dibal [Fasht ad Dībal] and the Persian Gulf across to the west coast of Qatar. The proposed route of the pipeline, from Ras Tanurah [Ra’s Tannūrah] to the Bahrein Refinery through Edh Dhahran [Aẓ-Ẓahrān] and Al Khoba...
'OILFIELDS & CONCESSION AREAS IN THE MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES TOGETHER WITH NEIGHBOURING OILFIELDS IN THE U.S.S.R.'
Scope & Content:
Map produced by the Research Department of the Foreign Office to accompany the document 'A Survey of the Oil Resources in the Middle East', dated 28 February 1945 (folios 18-30), showing all the known oilfields and concession areas of the Middle East along with neighbouring oilfields in Persia, ...
Map Showing the Boundary of an Area outside Kuwait Territorial Waters
Scope & Content:
Part of chart 2837B used to indicate an area outside the limit of Kuwait territorial waters (by means of a red line drawn on the map). Scale 1 inch = 27 miles. Correspondence from the Kuwait Oil Company to the India Office, dated July 1939, including a copy of a letter from Frank Holmes, the L...