Some great Central reflections / by B.K. Cooper -- A veteran Midland locomotive / by H.C. Casserley -- British locomotive practice & performance /... Show moreSome great Central reflections / by B.K. Cooper -- A veteran Midland locomotive / by H.C. Casserley -- British locomotive practice & performance / by Cecil J. Allen -- Railway developments in New Zealand -- Rebuilt Highland passenger locomotives, L.M.S.R. / by C. Hamilton Ellis -- Railways of the Near East. I., The Hedjaz Railway / by Cynric Mytton-Davies -- Stroudley Survivals -- Present-day American locomotive performance / by "Mercury" -- The L.N.E.R. "Claud Hamiltons" / by F.W. Brewer -- Overseas railways -- The why and the wherefore -- Pertinent paragraphs -- What the railways are doing. Show less
The album is a photographic account of the early years of British Petroleum, that is, of the Persian Oil Company (APOC). Photographs illustrate the... Show moreThe album is a photographic account of the early years of British Petroleum, that is, of the Persian Oil Company (APOC). Photographs illustrate the development of the oil industry and the benefits the oil exploitation has brought to Persia in terms of education, infrastructure, employment and healthcare.The album appears either as a preparatory work or as a personal draft copy of the book "The Persian Oil Industry. An account of its origin and development" printed by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, in 1927. The publication is a kind of early marketing operation of the Company, in fact, it was actually printed by Walter Pearce and Co, an advertising agency working for the Royal Commission of the Press, connected to the Empire Marketing Board. Abadan refinery. Tankers. Bawarda. Ganawah-Mishun and Mishun-Godar-i-Cham roads. Gach-qaraguli (Gachsaran). Main offices, bungalows and the Director residence in Mohammerah. Nasiri [sic.]. The Company school and hospital. School at Ahvaz. M. J. A. Nichols. Darkhazineh. Railway tracks in the valley of Tembi. Pipelines. Oil fields of Masjid-i-Sulaiman. M. S. Clegg smoking the hookah. Small trades (firemen, baker, barber, tailor, cabinetmaker, weaver, apprentices). Bazaar. Camel caravans. Deposits. Kalleh. Dams. Derricks. Pumps. British engineers and geologists. Tanks. Persian types. The album has a binding in full grey Marroquin and it is titled in cover in gilded letters. All pictures (average size 10,5 x 15.5 cm.) are captioned with typewritten labels. The album includes 3 panoramas. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0079 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i23323383 BIB-ID: 2496882 Show less
The photograph shows a railroad construction workers' camp. Title and date from manuscript inscription on the back of the print. Main Heritage... Show moreThe photograph shows a railroad construction workers' camp. Title and date from manuscript inscription on the back of the print. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2017.0054 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i24467509 BIB-ID: 2537237 Show less
The photograph shows a mail coach or post coach was, that is a horse-drawn carriage used mail deliveries Title and date from manuscript inscription... Show moreThe photograph shows a mail coach or post coach was, that is a horse-drawn carriage used mail deliveries Title and date from manuscript inscription on the back of the print. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2017.0055 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i24467510 BIB-ID: 2537238 Show less
The photograph shows a tramway and a group of people on the street of Algiers. On the right the Cafe de la Station, the train station coffeehouse. T... Show moreThe photograph shows a tramway and a group of people on the street of Algiers. On the right the Cafe de la Station, the train station coffeehouse. Title and date devised. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2017.0064 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i24468101 BIB-ID: 2537251 Show less
Physical geography, Physical geography--Arabian Peninsula, Wahhābīyah, Railroads, Railroads--Euphrates River Valley, CHR 1881, Description and travel, Description and travel
the cradle of the Arab race. A visit to the court of the Arab emir, and "our Persian campaign." With map, ports., and illus. from the author's... Show morethe cradle of the Arab race. A visit to the court of the Arab emir, and "our Persian campaign." With map, ports., and illus. from the author's drawings. Volume 2. Edited by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. Appendix: Notes on the physical geography of northern Arabia, by W.S.Blunt. Historical sketch of the rise and decline of Wahhabism in Arabia, compiled principally from materials supplied by Lt.-Colonel E.C.Ross. Memorandum on the Eu. Publisher's catalog dated Oct. 1880 (24 p.) at end of v.2. Show less
Great Britain. Army. Royal Army Medical Corps, Armies--Officers, Armies--Officers--Photographs, Railroads, World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns, World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Arab countries--Palestine
Photograph albums belonging to the British medical officer Edward Guest, who served in the 2/1st East Anglian Field Ambulance, part of the 54th... Show morePhotograph albums belonging to the British medical officer Edward Guest, who served in the 2/1st East Anglian Field Ambulance, part of the 54th Division’s Royal Army Medical Corps in the Territorial Force. The first album is titled “photographs of the Suez Canal Zone. April 1916 to Xmas 1916”; the second “contains views of the advance made by the British across the Sin[ai] desert into Palestine 1917–18”. Among the diverse subjects are: the Canal and its environs, the officers and men of the Field Ambulance, railways, trenches, fortifications, and tent camps (with scenes of camp life), an Indian camel corps and transport camels used as ambulances, fishing from pontoon bridges, as well as views of the desert, an expedition into Sinai, shell-shocked men in Gaza, the ruins of shelled buildings, soldiers laying telegraph wires (by camel) and making a railway cutting, a railway accident, a cannon captured from the Turkish army, irrigation pumps and vegetation in Palestine. Portraits of local men and women, market scenes and merchants, grilling camel flesh. Ultimately, street scenes in Jerusalem, views of the Old City, of the Mosque of Omar, and Jericho. Title and date from item. Photographs, mostly 6 x 8 cm, are set in window pages (square and round ones) and generally manuscript captioned in white and yellow paint. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2018.0228.02 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i25174496 BIB-ID: 2624725 Show less
Photograph album compiled by the French engineer Alfred Beneyton, who accomplished two study missions in Yemen, the first one between 1909 and 1910... Show morePhotograph album compiled by the French engineer Alfred Beneyton, who accomplished two study missions in Yemen, the first one between 1909 and 1910, and the second in 1911. A member of the French Geographical Society, his duty was to prospect for the construction of a narrow-gauge railway from Al-Hudaydah on the coast to the inland Sanaa. The line, proposed by the Ottoman Government, had to be constructed under a concession with a French company. To accomplish this task, Beneyton compiled the first regional topographic mapping. He mapped the borders of the triangular area between Taiz, Sanaa, and Al-Hudaydah. The present album is probably related to the 1911 mission, whose goal was to survey a long deep U-shaped line from Al-Hudaydah to Sanaa, running through the region of Ibb and touching the centers of Bayt al-Faqih, Zabid, Hais, Yarim, and Dhamar. Photographs depict city views, including buildings and mosques, landscapes and people, including his colleagues, the Ottoman officers accompanying them, as well as rulers (caimacans, sheiks - like Sheikh Menassar el-Kebir - and beys - like Mutessarif Izzet Bey and Habib Bey), Turkish soldieries, and members of local tribes like the Zaranig people, and Yemeni Jewish. In addition to villages, river valleys and mountain landscapes are depicted. Photographs picture mosques, city views, military camps, the burial of cholera patients, and the typical Yemeni coffee cultivation with the use of terraces etched into the mountainside. Région d’Oudanie. Photographe de Burckart assassiné en décembre 1909 vers Oudanie -- Sur la passerelle de « Tuna » [?] -- Port Said 4 fev. 1911 -- Sur la proue de [illegible] Simons 3 fév. 1911 -- Aden (steamer point) -- Mr Varmi [?] -- Aden -- Aden. Dents d’éléphant -- Hodeïdah: vue extérieure -- Hodeïdah : vue de notre terrasse -- Hodeïdah local d’entreprise -- 20 février 1911 à Hodeïdah : Monsieurs Botez, Vamoer, Raymnond, Antaki [?], moi, de Violeni et fils [?] Betrand -- Badjil -- Le baïram à Badjil 1911 -- La Sertron [?] à Badjil -- Beit-el-Fakih le 9 mars 1911 -- au fort -- Le caïmakam de Beit-el-Fakih et le cheik Menassar el Kébir le 7/3/1911 le même qui m’a rançonné -- Zaraniks 6/3/1911 -- El Mehad 1273/1911 -- Pascal à Hadjileh [?] 23/11/1911 -- Mon logès à Hadjileh [?] 23/11/1911 -- Oussil mars 1911 -- Attara -- Vers Menaka : Hodjeïra à 2500 m d’altitude -- Vers Arrara gendarmes arabes 22/11 1911 -- Hodjeïra -- Sur le toit [?] Femmes juives a Menaka -- Sous Menakha : cafiiers [?] terrasses des [illegible]. Edulis [?] dures -- Oussil 22/11 1912 -- Souk-el-Khamis 9.4.1911 -- Sur la route de Souk-el-Khamis C.ie Turque d’infanterie -- Sinan Pacha bombardé (11/4 1911) -- Sanaa Bab-el-Yemen -- Sanaa avril 1911 Vues de ma terrasse -avril 1911-- Grande mosquée -- Porte de Rauzza [?] -- Le Djebel vu de ma terrasse -- Vue vers Hodeïdah vu de ma terrasse -- Cimetière vu de ma terrasse -- Septembre 1911 fonctionnaires M. Richardson-- Le baïram à Sanaa -- Ma maison de Bir-el-Azeb -- gendarmes arabes en grande tenue -- Bab-el-Yemen -- [illegible] Pacha -- d. Hamdy bey -- cheik Sahli Nadji -- officiers de cavalerie -- Dans mon jardin février 1912 avec « Saïda », ma [illegible] gazelle -- Ma maison et Hadji Matar -- Pascal en avril 1911 (Gaëtan) -- Figaro en avril 1912 (Khamis)-- Figaro en Septembre 1911 -- Mabrouk -- Ravageot -- Rihan -- Taïs Le jardine du Muterassarif Izzet bey -- son mulet -- avec ses 3 gazelles -- Cheik Mohamed Nasser Pascha avec cheik Fakich et [illegible] -- mes chevaux au repos -- Bertrand opéraur [?] -- 29 Juillet 1911 -- Excursion sous Taïs 29 Juillet 1911 -- me cavaliers à pied -- Taïs l’anniversaire du 10 Juillet (1911) la milice, revue, mes cavaliers, Cheik Mohamed Nasser Pacha 10/7 1911, Officiers, Le salut au Sultan -- Taïs Juillet 1911 Vue des casernes, les casernes et le camp, la ville, vue de la route, mosquée, El Kasser, Habib bey -- Vers Roumada -- Cheik Fatich ver Roumada -- La palmeraie de Ris chian (dattes) -- Ris chian notre abri -- Ma mule et mes domestiques -- Guba 14 Juillet 1911 : nos hôtelières, la belle fille de Guba, notre logis -- Madrouba 15/7 1911 : notre logis, départ d’un courrière qui fait 180 Kilom. En 24 heures ! la cour de l’auberge avec ma mule -- Dans l’Ouadi Nakla Juillet 1911 -- cannes à sucre -- Armistice abib bey et quelques cheiks à Souk-el-Falak --Camp de El-Maklaf Juillet 1911 -- Bertrand dans l’Ouadi Hachama -- Taïs -- Vers le Djebel Menar : En allant à Djemdié, halte des cavaliers, Djemdié (El Jenete), Adamat cheires, Adamat notre camp, Ascension du Souk-el-Kabou, Cheik Abdoul Mahed, Muphti de Hib, Cheik Mohammed Naser, Yousouf bey a Adeb, Meshel -- vers Madian Izzel bey -- Djebel Badan terrasses de cultures -- Djebel Menar -- Ouadi Sohoul -- a Madian -- Mahé -- El Mokhader -- Ibb : vue du Djebel Badan, les casernes, Porte de Ibb, l’aqueduc de Ibb, Mehmet efendi, le marché de Ibb, Youssouf bey, maison à Ibb, tombeaux à Ibb -- El Mokhader : le mudir en manteau rouge, le konak, le sycomore -- Dans le Ouadi Meïtam : mes domestiques, Souk el Thalouth, mon camp, déjeuner à Bab el Meïtam -- Sur la route de Yerim le 20 août 1911 -- El Khodar -- Dhamar en août 1911 : mosquée, ma maison, le combustible, miséreux -- Minaret penché de Dhamar, miséreux, Juif, Irfan bey, colonel, Ahmed bey caïmakan à la porte des casernes, revue de troupes, mes reïs chameliers, Dhamar -- Maber, à Maber août 1911, les femmes de notre hôtel à Maber -- El Khodar, Ouataun, le lieutenant [illegible] Ismaïl effenti [illegible] de mon escorte vers El Dobir 27 août 191, le camp d’Es. Wak Juin 1911 -- Menakha inhumations de cholériques, cafeïers en village près Menakha -- Ruines de Souk el-Khamis partie du village détruite par Ahmed Fezi Pacha -- Sanaa : notre maison de la ville vue des remparts, la place de Beit-el-[illegible] -- Juifs et Juives de Sanaa -- Mokha -- Vers Yerim 24 Avril 1912 -- à Taïs 2 Mai 1912 -- à Lahadj [sic] le 8 mai 1912 -- Prince [illegible] Mohzin -- 26 Novembre 1911 dans le Haine : mes bagages, colline de Jjdiz [sic], mes chevaux --Dans le Djebel Menar à 3100 m d’altitude 24 Dec. 1911: M. [illegible] Pascal, Vely bey, moi sur Figaro -- Vekey bey et moi dans le Djebel Menar -- Vers Bab el Meïtam 26/12 1911, à Madrouba 4 janvier 1912 -- Chez le Zaramiks 12 janvier 1912 --Arrivant à Hodaidah 15/1 1912. Title and date devised by Library staff. Most of the photographs are captioned in French on the mount; formats ranging from 5.1 x 6.2 cm to 10.2 x 16.6 cm. Main Heritage Office General HC.HP.2016.0060 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i23322366 BIB-ID: 2496842 Beneyton, Alfred, 1913, Mission d'études au Yémen: La Géographie, v. 28, no. 4, p. 201—219. Show less
