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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Photo 496 Language English Place Mathra , Muscat

1. Photo 496/6

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 496/6
Title:
Album of tour of the Persian Gulf. Photographer: Rev. Edwin Aubrey Storrs-Fox
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains landscape, maritime and architectural snapshot views of a tour in the Persian Gulf, including locations such as Mathra, Muscat, Bunder Abbas [Bandar Abbas], Linga [Lengeh], Bahrein [Bahrain], Bushire [Bushehr], Koweit [Kuwait], Mohammerah [Khorammshahr],...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916-18
Extent:
48 b&w silver gelatin prints bound into a brown, cloth-covered photograph album

2. Photo 496/6(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 496/6(11)
Title:
Mathra. Photographer: Rev. Edwin Aubrey Storrs-Fox
Scope & Content:
This image shows Mathra and part of the bay behind it. In the far distance at centre a settlement, perhaps Muscat itself, lines the shore. A fortified castle or tower can be seen on the near side of the bay, atop a steep rocky hill. Rocky outcrops descend from left and right to centre of the i...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1918
Extent:
1 b&w silver gelatin print