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2 items (illustrating notes by J G L Ranking on the Bakhtiari tribes and their chiefs)...
Catalogue reference: MFQ 1/1350
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This record is about the 2 items (illustrating notes by J G L Ranking on the Bakhtiari tribes and their chiefs)... dating from 1911 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MFQ 1/1350
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1911
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2 items (illustrating notes by J G L Ranking on the Bakhtiari tribes and their chiefs) extracted from WO 106/5954. Persia (now Iran). Plan and section of the Lynch Road (1) from Isfahan to Ahwaz and (2) from Ahwaz to Isfahan showing place names, terrain, wells and ruins. Scales: (1) 1 inch to 8 miles; (2) horizontal 1 inch to 8 miles, vertical 1 inch to 6000 feet. Compass indicator on (1). (1) drawn by Soldier Surveyor Duffedar Abdullah Tan, 31st DCO Lancers under the supervision of Lieutenant J G L Ranking, Indian Army, HM Consul and Assistant Resident, Ahwaz. (2) Copied by Tan from an original drawn by Ranking 13 March 1911. Dimensions of sheets: (1) 38 cm x 82 cm; (2) 38 cm x 1001 cm.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- MS on tracing paper, (1) coloured
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- Open Document, Open Description
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