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'Precious Pearls of the Deep’: an article on pearl diving from the Irish News, dated...

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BL5888853
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'Precious Pearls of the Deep’: an article on pearl diving from the Irish News, dated 18 April 1935 (newsprint)
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British Library, London, UK
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newsprint
Date
1935 AD (C20th AD)
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The file contains a paper entitled 'Vocabulary of diving terms', giving a list of terms for types of divers and persons related to diving, and descriptions of four diving systems; notes on advances and payments; notes on accounts; list of general terms relating to diving; miscellaneous notes on diving; correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf , Bushire (Lieutenant Colonel Cyril Charles Johnson Barrett), and the American Consul in Baghdad, dated 1929, in which the Resident strongly advises the Consul against an American firm sending a pearl fishing ship to the Persian Gulf , stating that the pearl fisheries had been conducted from time immemorial by the inhabitants of the Gulf coasts, and any interference by outsiders would be strenuously resisted and attended with considerable risk; press cuttings, 1934-1935; and note on levy recruits' diving debts.

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1930s / 20th century / recruitment / newspaper / article / clipping / pearl diving / persian gulf / 30s / thirties / text / pearls
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