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Collection Area India Office Records and Private Papers Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Landscape photography

1. 1781.b.6/1

Reference (shelfmark):
1781.b.6/1
Title:
'Die Moschee und der nordwestliche Theil der Stadt'.
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter This panoramic view over Mecca showing most of the Masjid al-Haram and the northwest portion of the city is likely a print of a drawing after a photograph or series of photographs of the same view by the Mekkan photographer, and doctor, al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār. Numbers ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1888
Extent:

1 print (possibly lithographic) of a drawing after a photograph

2. 1781.b.6/2

Reference (shelfmark):
1781.b.6/2
Title:
'Die Moschee'.
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: This south-southwest view inside the Masjid al-Haram of the Caaba and surrounding structures is a print of a drawing after a photograph of the same view by the Meccan photographer, and doctor, al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār. This photograph, in the collection of the Universitei...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1888
Extent:

1 print (possibly lithographic) of a drawing after a photograph

3. Photo 174

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 174
Title:
Album: 'Views of Mecca and Medina' by H. A. Mirza & Sons, Photographers
Scope & Content:
The album contains historical and architectural views of Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia, which relate to a South Asian Muslim perspective of the hadj. Contents: 1 'Picture of the Tents of the Turks' 2 'Picture of the Sanctuary of Medina the Radiant' 3 'Picture of the City of Mecca the Grea...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Urdu
Date Range:
c 1907
Extent:
13 b/w photographic prints within blue card mounts, bound into one volume

4. Photo 174(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 174(11)
Title:
Picture of the Paradise of al-Ma'ala. Photographer: H. A. Mirza & Sons
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter This image shows the cemetery known as the Paradise of al-Ma’ala or Jannat al-Mualla, situated north northeast of the Masjid al-Haram, in which several of the Prophet Mohammed’s relatives were buried. Some of those buried there are listed in the surrounding prose, includi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Urdu
Date Range:
c 1907
Extent:

1 b/w photographic print laid down on a blue card window mount

5. Photo 174(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 174(12)
Title:
Picture of the Paradise Garden of al-Baqi'. Photographer: H. A. Mirza & Sons
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter This image shows the cemetery known as the Paradise of al-Baqi' in Medina, which was the first Islamic cemetery. Located immediately to the southeast of the Masjid al-Nabawi, the cemetery holds significance due to its status as the burial site of many companions and relativ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Urdu
Date Range:
c 1907
Extent:

1 b/w photographic print laid down on a blue card window mount

6. Photo 430/8

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/8
Title:
'South Persia'. Photographer: Lt. A. A. Crookshank (Curzon Collection)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains landscape and architectural views of South Persia and the Persian Gulf coastline. The photos are presented initially by location (Muscat, Jask, Bandar Abbás, Niríz, Yezd, Isfahan to Shiráz Road, Pasargadae, Naksh-i-Rustam, Naksh-i-Rajab, Persepolis, Shir...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1900-15 Apr 1902
Extent:
119 b&w photographs bound into a maroon and red half leather album

7. Photo 430/8(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/8(1)
Title:
'[Muscat] Town and Bay. 31st Oct 1900'. Photographer: Arthur Alexander Crookshank
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter General view over the town out towards the harbour, from the south-west, looking north-east. Several-storeyed white-washed buildings can be seen in the fore- and middleground. To the far left, two apparently fortified towers can be seen on the foothills of the ridge at left...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1900
Extent:
1 b&w photographic print

8. Photo 430/8(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/8(2)
Title:
'[Muscat] The Town looking North. 31. Oct 1900'. Photographer: Arthur Alexander Crookshank
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter General view from the outskirts of the town (likely present-day Mutrah) to the harbour and promontory fort, from an elevated position, looking north-northeast. The area of the town and coastline visible in the distant middleground is the part of the town featured in the pre...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1900
Extent:
1 b&w photographic print

9. Photo 430/8(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/8(3)
Title:
'[Muscat] British Consulate. 31. Oct 1900'. Photographer: Arthur Alexander Crookshank
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter View from the shoreline of the British Consulate at Muscat, looking due west. The consulate is a pale-stoned, two or three-storeyed building built along the quays. Two gas lamps can be seen along the quay in front of the building and a single mashrabiyya (a form of enclos...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1900
Extent:
1 b&w photographic print

10. Photo 430/8(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/8(4)
Title:
'[Muscat] Old Portuguese Fort (1550). 31. Oct 1900'. Photographer: Arthur Alexander Crookshank
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter This view of the Al-Jalali Fort at the south-eastern end of the Bay of Muscat was likely photographed from the roof of the British Consulate, situated along the shoreline adjacent to it (see also Photo 430/8/3). Inscriptions Upper right, in pen, on image: 'p. 8'; alongsi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1900
Extent:
1 b&w photographic print