Map numbered 1.C (Diza-Gawar [Diza Hawār]), and subtitled ‘Mosul & Kirkuk Divisions. Azarbāījān [Azerbaijan] Province. Van Vilayet.’ An index to the geographical location of the provinces is provided below the map. A caption under the map states that it was published under the direction of Colonel Charles Henry Dudley Ryder, Surveyor General of India, 1923. A stamp in the bottom right corner of the map states that it was published by the Geographical Section General Staff, War Office.The map indicates: relief, shown by contours and shading, with elevations given in feet; rivers, lakes, marshes; province and country boundaries; settlements, with place names in English; railways, roads and other transport routes. An additional boundary line, drawn in red ink, has been added to the map.The map is mentioned in a copy of a letter sent by HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran (Reginald Hervey Hoare) to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (John Allsebrook Simon), dated 1 July 1932, which states that the ‘Turkish military attaché has been so good as to draw upon sheets 1 A, 1 B, and 1 C [...] the line of the new frontier’ (f 48).1 mapMaterials:1 paper folio.Dimensions:462 x 478 mm, on sheet 574 x 434 mm.
Map numbered 1.B (Khoī [Khoy]), and subtitled ‘Azarbāījān [Azerbaijan] Province & Van Vilayet.’ An index to the geographical location of the provinces is provided below the map. A caption under the map states that it was published under the direction of Colonel Charles Henry Dudley Ryder, Surveyor General of India, 1922. A stamp in the bottom right corner of the map states that it was published by the Geographical Section General Staff, War Office.The map indicates: relief, shown by contours and shading, with elevations given in feet; rivers, lakes, marshes; province and country boundaries; settlements, with place names in English; railways, roads and other transport routes. An additional boundary line, drawn in red ink, has been added to the map.The map is mentioned in a copy of a letter sent by HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran (Reginald Hervey Hoare) to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (John Allsebrook Simon), dated 1 July 1932, which states that the ‘Turkish military attaché has been so good as to draw upon sheets 1 A, 1 B, and 1 C [...] the line of the new frontier’ (f 48).1 mapMaterials:1 paper folio.Dimensions:464 x 374 mm, on sheet 630 x 444 mm.
Map numbered 1.A (Mount Ararat), and subtitled ‘Azarbāījān [Azerbaijan] Province. Erivan [Yerevan]. Erzerum [Erzurum] & Van Vilayets.’ An index to the geographical location of the provinces is provided below the map. A caption under the map states that it was published under the direction of Colonel Charles Henry Dudley Ryder, Surveyor General of India, 1922. A stamp in the bottom right corner of the map states that it was published by the Geographical Section General Staff, War Office.The map indicates: relief, shown by contours and shading, with elevations given in feet; rivers, lakes, marshes; province and country boundaries; settlements, with place names in English; railways, roads and other transport routes; the Indo-European Telegraph Line. A new boundary line, drawn in red ink with annotations, has been added to the map.The map is mentioned in a copy of a letter sent by HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran (Reginald Hervey Hoare) to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (John Allsebrook Simon), dated 1 July 1932, which states that the ‘Turkish military attaché has been so good as to draw upon sheets 1 A, 1 B, and 1 C [...] the line of the new frontier’ (f 48).1 mapMaterials:1 paper folio.Dimensions:462 x 367 mm, on sheet 615 x 444 mm.
Genre/Subject Matter:The album contains fifty-eight watercolour landscape views of locations visited during the Ouseley embassy to Persia, 1810–12, as well as two handlists, probably created by later owner F. G. McCutcheon
c.1880, two notes from
The Graphicmagazine to McCutcheon and a newspaper clipping from
The Graphic, 1880.The watercolour drawings are on paper lightly tipped into the album. Titles and annotations made at a later date are pasted below the drawings and were probably written by McCutcheon. Titles on the versos of each drawing – where extant – are perhaps by D’Arcy himself, although they are also occasionally supplemented with further inscriptions, probably by McCutcheon.The drawings, numbered separately, have been mounted haphazardly and do not follow the route of the embassy. No. 15 is missing.The Ouseley embassy was a diplomatic mission during 1810-12 by Sir Gore Ouseley, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Qajar court, to Fatḥ-ʿAlī Shah, which the British intended to use as an opportunity to collection intelligence about Iran while concluding the Anglo-Iranian Treaty of 1812.Elements:i) Handwritten ‘List of Water-Colour Drawings sketches in Persia by the late Lieut-Colonel D’Arcy. R. A. [Royal Academy] K.L.S. [Knight of the Lion and Sun of Persia] 1811–1812’, probably by F. G. McCutcheon, c. 1880, later owner of the album.1) ‘A ruined bridge near Mount Ararat, on the road to Constantinople’2) ‘Mount Ararat’3) ‘Greater & Lesser Ararat - Twilight’4) ‘Eklid [Iqlid], a Persian village’5) ‘Sion near Casibec – Caucasus’.[This drawing, outside the area of the Ouseley embassy and associated expeditions, may have been made when D’Arcy returned to England via Russia in 1815]6) ‘Scene in the mountains of Caraghehdaugh [Karadagh], Persia, where there is an Iron mine, Octr. 1812’.7) ‘Mount Sevilan [Savalan Dagh], 12,000 ft. high in Azerbijan’8) ‘Mount Sevilan [Savalan Dagh]. Even. Gt. storm coming’9) ‘Scene on the top of Mount Sevilan near the Crater’10) ‘View of the Ark from the Prince’s new garden, Tabreez, Figure is myself visiting the first Potatoe plants’11) ‘Tabreez, morning, from the suburbs’ and ‘will call for the sketch’ [This drawing was reproduced in
The Graphic, 13 November 1880. A copy is pasted at the back of the album.]12) ‘The back of the Ark and walls of Tabreez, the view is taken from the back of Hadjir Khan Mohammed’s Garden’13) ‘Kizil Uzen [Qizil Uzun]River’14) ‘The Kuflan Kow [Ghafilan Kuh] Bridge over the Kizil Osan [Qizil Uzun] or River of Golden Fish that separates Media from Persia. Col D’Arcy’. In another hand: ‘Kafilan - Kow Bridge’.15) [MISSING]16) Bridge, possibly over the Qizil Uzun near Haji Hamseh17) Large lake and distant mountains, possibly Lake Urumieh.18) ‘Prince Royal’s Camp, Sulstan Sissar [sic]. 12 Oct. 1812’, repeated in another hand.19) ‘Romantic Scenery near the Camp at Sultan Hissar – Oct. 1812’, repeated in another hand.20) ‘Persia, Wild scene about 5 miles to the N. of the Prince’s Camp at Sultan Hissar in Sept. & Oct. 1812, the high ridge in the centre of the picture is called the Lasllect Moyeran, in July 1814 I went there to see if a Fortress could be built on it. J.D’A’.21) ‘Amit Begloo [Dost‘Ali Begli]. Evg. 15 Oct. 1812’.22) Recto: ‘Camp near Amet Begloo [Dost‘Ali Begli]. Augst. 1812’. Verso: ‘From the camp at Ahmet Begloo’.23) Borazjun, on the route to Shiraz.24) ‘Berazgoon [Borazjun]’25) ‘The pass of Tangi Tourkon [Tang-i Turkhan] – halfway to Firoozabad’, repeated on original mount with ‘Farsistan’.26) ‘Entering the Kotils from Bushire’ [Note: Kotil or Kutal, a general word for high mountain pass]27) ‘The Camp at Dalkie [Daliki] on the Road from Bushire to Shiraz’28) ‘Abou-Shehr or Bushire, Persian Gulf’ / ‘On the road to Dalkin [Daliki] from Bushire showing the mirage’29) ‘Scene entering the Kotils from Bushire’.30) Recto: ‘Kotil Dokhtor [Kutal Dukhtar]’. Verso: ‘Kotil Dochter’ [Note: See Ouseley, vol. I, pl.XX.31) ‘View of the Salt Lake near Shiraz – seen from a valley beyond the Madrij Solimaun [Masjed Soleymān]’32) ‘View from the back of the Takhti Kadjar – Shiraz – Evening. The outlines of this view were hastily sketched in – on the last evening of our being there and the details put in since from other sketches and memory’33) ‘The Dariagh Namak – or Salt Lake – seen from the back of the Madre Solimaun [Masjed Soleymān]’34) ‘The rahdarri – or Toll station near Shiraz at the foot of the Madre i Soliman [Masjed Soleymān] – Salt Lake in the distance’35) ‘Scene just beyond the Shutur Khorah - shewing the Madre i Soliman [Masjed Soleymān], Salt Lake and pou i fassa, Shiraz’.36) ‘Ruins of the Shutur Khorah, or Camel stables near the gate of the Dilgusha, Shiraz’37) ‘View from the west of the Takht i Kajar, Shiraz looking towards the Salt Lake, April 1811’.38) ‘Shiraz, seen from the ground near the Moselleh [South]’39) ‘Diwan Khaneh or Hall of Audience of the Prince Royal at Shiraz, May 1811’.40) ‘Ruins of the Moseleh (Hafiz’s favourite retreat) near Shiraz, Persia’41) ‘The Hafiziah or Tomb of Hafiz – Shiraz’.42) ‘The Kou-i-barf (snow mountain) 5 miles N.W. of Shiraz, morning’. Also drawing of a bearded man.43) Mountain view with travellers and horses.44) A garden pavilion, Kulah-i Ferangi, Shiraz.45) Stony plain with toll gate and mountain ridge in the distance.45a) Distant view of Isfahan with a road, river and irrigation channel in the foreground. A fortified building to the right.46) ‘Kou-i-barf, hill of snow. A remarkable mountain near Shiraz’.47) ‘The approach to Comisheh [Qumisheh], one stage from Ispahan 1811’48).‘Comisheh [Qumisheh] on the road from Shiraz to Ispahan’.49) Distant view of the ruins of Persepolis from across the Kur, or Bandamir, river. [Note: Some members of the embassy visited Persepolis from 26 April to 7 May 1811, and the entire party reached it by 13 July of the same year.]49a) ‘Ruins of Persepolis viewed by twilight’ [Note: On reverse notes and drawing of a man studying inscriptions on a ruined pillar]50) ‘Ruins of Persepolis or Takhta Ghemshid [Takht-i Jamshrid] also Chehel Minar, Persia’.51) ‘A Pigeon Tower at an angle of the Hazar jereeb near Isphahan, the hermitage and Kuh-i-Sufeh in the distance’.52) ‘Entrance to Isphahan’53) Tombs of the Kings of Persia at Qum.54) ‘Bridge of Alli Verdi Khan [‘Ali Vardi Khan]. Isphahan’55) ‘The Bridge of Khajoo over the Zienderoode Ispahan’56) ‘The City of Ispahan from the Camp ground on the North’57) ‘The Shah’s palace to the N. of Tehran’58) ‘The Palace within the walls’ii) Handwritten ‘List of Sketches (Persia), probably by F. G. McCutcheon, c. 1880, later owner of the album.iii) Note from editor of
The Graphicto F. C. McCutcheon, owner of the album, 18 October 1880.iv) Cutting from
The Graphic, 13 November 1880, showing the reproduction of the sketch ‘Tabreez’ (11).v) Note from manager of
The Graphicto F. C. McCutcheon, owner of the album, 21 December 1880Inscriptions:Spine, gold embossed: ‘D’ARCY ALBUM’ ‘WD 1348’Page one, ink: ‘COLONEL D’ARCY DRAWINGS MADE DURING THE EMBASSY TO PERSIA 1810–12’Album of 58 watercolour drawings of views of Persia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey, mostly made during the Ouseley embassy to Tehran (1810–12), 1 newspaper cutting, 2 notes and 2 handlists (c. 1880) lightly tipped into a leather-bound album.Dimensions:Album: 518 x 642 x 63 mmFormat:Navy leather album with gold fleur-de-lys embossing containing fifty-eight watercolour drawings and other handwritten or printed paper items lightly tipped onto card pages.Materials:Ink, watercolour and body colour.Condition:The binding is in excellent condition while the individual drawings, while delicate, are in the main well secured in the album. Surface dirt throughout all drawings, with some minor additional staining.Foliation:The images have been numbered 1–58 in ink captions affixed beneath each image as well as in the lower right corner of each image, in pencil. Pages are foliated throughout in the upper right corner.Technique:Watercolour sketches.Binding:The album is bound in navy leather format with gold fleur-de-lys embossing. A gilt stamp has been applied to the spine upon acquisition to the India Office Library.
Monthly reports submitted by the British Consul General at Tabriz, concerning events in Tabriz and Azerbaijan. The reports, which span the period January 1946 to January 1948, cover: the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Azerbaijan following the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Iran during the Second World War; the short-lived existence of the Azerbaijan People’s Government, declared in November 1945; the activities of the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan and its leader Ja’far Pishevari; the Iranian Government’s reassertion of control in Azerbaijan in 1947. The reports include sections describing: the general situation (with a detailed chronology of events given for reports covering January 1947 to May 1947); the activities of the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan; military operations; internal security; trade and industry; finance; communications; agriculture; Kurdish affairs; Armenian affairs; British, Soviet and American [USA] interests, including propaganda. The file includes an English translation of an agreement between representatives of the Government of Iran and the Azerbaijan People’s Government, the original of which was published in the newspaper
Azerbaijanon 16 June 1946 (ff 165-167).The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.1 file (223 folios)The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 225; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Toonneel des oorlogs in't zuider deel van Europa, door Carel Allard = Theatre de la guerre dans l'Europe meridionale, par Charles Allard. It was published by C. Allard in 1705. Scale [ca. 1:6,800,000]. Covers a portion of Europe and the Mediterranean Sea region. This layer is image 2 of 2 total images of the two sheet source map, representing the eastern portion of the map. Map in Dutch and French. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the World Miller Cylindrical projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorially.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.Historic paper maps can provide an excellent view of the changes that have occurred in the cultural and physical landscape. The wide range of information provided on these maps make them useful in the study of historic geography, and urban and rural land use change. As this map has been georeferenced, it can be used in a GIS as a source or background layer in conjunction with other GIS data.None planned
This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Nova tabula Indiae Orientalis. It was published by Carolus Allard excudit, between 1690 and 1710. Scale [ca. 1:5,500,000]. Covers the Indian Ocean Region. Map in Latin. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the World Miller Cylindrical projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, roads, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorially.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.Historic paper maps can provide an excellent view of the changes that have occurred in the cultural and physical landscape. The wide range of information provided on these maps make them useful in the study of historic geography, and urban and rural land use change. As this map has been georeferenced, it can be used in a GIS as a source or background layer in conjunction with other GIS data.None planned
This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A map of the countries between Constantinople and Calcutta : including Turkey in Asia, Persia, Afghanistan and Turkestan. It was published by Edward Stanford in 1903. Scale 1:6,969,600. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Asia North Lambert Conformal Conic coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, roads, railroads, ferry routes, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.Historic paper maps can provide an excellent view of the changes that have occurred in the cultural and physical landscape. The wide range of information provided on these maps make them useful in the study of historic geography, and urban and rural land use change. As this map has been georeferenced, it can be used in a GIS as a source or background layer in conjunction with other GIS data.None planned
This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Empire de la Porte ottomane en Europe, en Asie et en Afrique avec les pays qui lui sont tributaires, dresse par les Freres Lotter. It was published by Freres Lotter ca. 1790. Scale [ca. 1:9,000,000]. Covers the Ottoman Empire. Map in French. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to a modified 'Europe Lambert Conformal Conic' projection with a central meridian of 38 degrees East projection. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial and provincial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorially. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection as part of the Open Collections Program at Harvard University project: Islamic Heritage Project. Maps selected for the project represent a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes. The Islamic Heritage Project consists of over 100,000 digitized pages from Harvard's collections of Islamic manuscripts and published materials. Supported by Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and developed in association with the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University.Historic paper maps can provide an excellent view of the changes that have occurred in the cultural and physical landscape. The wide range of information provided on these maps make them useful in the study of historic geography, and urban and rural land use change. As this map has been georeferenced, it can be used in a GIS as a source or background layer in conjunction with other GIS data.None planned
This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte de l'Egypte, de la Nubie, de l'Abyssinie &c., par Guillaume de l'Isle, de l'Academie Royal a Paris. It was published by Chez Henri de Leth, a l'enseigne du Pecheur ca. 1730. Scale [ca. 1:9,250,000]. Covers the Red Sea region, North Africa including portions of the Middle East and Europe. Map in French.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Africa Sinusoidal projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, major roads, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorially. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.Historic paper maps can provide an excellent view of the changes that have occurred in the cultural and physical landscape. The wide range of information provided on these maps make them useful in the study of historic geography, and urban and rural land use change. As this map has been georeferenced, it can be used in a GIS as a source or background layer in conjunction with other GIS data.None planned
The file contains reports, predominantly in the form of telegrams, by British diplomatic and consular staff on political and social developments in Persia; the content of the reports reflect British Government interests during the Iran-Azerbaijan Crisis of 1946. The reports cover developments within the Central Government, developments in the provinces, and the activities of the Democratic Party and the Tudeh Party. This includes accounts of meetings held by the British and United States Ambassadors – John Le Rougetel and George V Allen – with Ahmad Qavam (Prime Minister and Leader of the Democratic Party) and the Shah – Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. The file also covers strikes and labour disputes, with those affecting the operations of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company being particularly predominant.The strikes of oil workers in Agha Jari and Abadan in July 1946 are covered in the reports, as is a threatened revolt by the Bakhtiari and Kashgai tribes. Reports from the British Ambassador to the Soviet Union (Sir Maurice Drummond Peterson) cover Soviet press reporting of developments in Persia. A small amount of content is in French.The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.1 file (596 folios)The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 597; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Typewritten and printed copies of weekly intelligence summaries, submitted by the Military Attaché at the British Embassy in Tehran. The reports cover: the affairs and activities of the Persian [Iranian] Government and the majlis, including statements, communiqués and declarations made by the Persian Prime Minister, Qawam us-Saltaneh [Qavām os-Saltaneh]; internal security in Iran and its various provinces, with a particular focus on the political unrest in Azerbaijan, in the wake of the Soviet army’s refusal to withdraw from Azerbaijan, and pro-Soviet sentiment in the region; Persian government appointments; the Persian army; reports in the Persian press, with a particular focus on the expression of anti-British sentiment in some publications; foreign interests in Persia, chiefly relating to Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States of America; notes on prominent Persian personalities.1 file (144 folios)The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 146; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.