Archive / Tag: Karachi

  • Varvill Papers
    Archive: Papers
    M.N. Varvill Note on the Karachi Extension Railway Survey, 1912-13. MS 2 pp., written 1967, plus twenty-three photographs (with notes on reverse).
  • Swayne-Thomas Papers: Boxes 2-4
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    April Swayne-Thomas, artist. 1940-45, Karachi; 1945-47, extensive travel throughout India; 1952-54, Hyderabad. Diaries of April Swayne-Thomas: Box 2 – 1944-50: Calcutta [Kolkata]; Karachi Box 3 – 1951, 53, 54: Hyderabad; […]
  • Swayne-Thomas Papers: Box 1
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    April Swayne-Thomas, artist. 1940-45, Karachi; 1945-47, extensive travel throughout India; 1952-54, Hyderabad.) Corrected galley proof for Indian Summer. Folder containing some of the original typescript sections for Indian Summer. Illuminated […]
  • Showers Family Papers: Box 4
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    Personal files of Captain H.L. Showers kept while he was Political Agent: Baluchistan Agency, 1898-99. Takes over in March 1898 from Captain M.A. Tighe, in Karachi. Transferred to Zhob as […]
  • Sellek Papers
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    F.S. Sellek, M.B.E. Map of Bombay and surrounding country: 1st edition 1934, scale- 1inch:2miles, publ. by Survey of India Office. Road map of India: 5th (revised) edition, 1939, scale- 50miles:1inch, […]
  • Ridley Papers
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    Small Collections Box 20 Given by Sir Sidney Ridley Xerox copies: ‘An account of the creation and development of the Karachi Port Trust with historical background, 1838-1933.’ TS. 35 pp. […]
  • McGill Papers
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    Small Collections Box 16 Given by Mrs L. Brander. Copyright reserved by Mrs Brander. Letter from Alexander McGill describing a journey from Ireland to Jullunder in 1868. 16 ff. Letter […]
  • Fyson Papers
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    Small Collections Box 10 Memoir ‘Lucky Child’ covering Miss Fyson’s childhood in India. Marjory Fyson was the second daughter of Hugh and Margaret Fyson. She was born in 1910 in […]
  • Crosfield Papers
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    Box 1: Born in 1899, Leonard Crosfield studied at Oxford before joining the Oxford and Bucks. Light Infantry for service in Northern France in 1918. After the war he joined […]
  • Interview: L.C. Mehra
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