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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 355/1(48)
Title:: 'Minaret in Ormuz'
Scope & Content:: Genre/Subject Matter: This photograph shows a dilapidated tower or minaret on the island of Hormuz off the coast of Bandar Abbas. To the left in the background several reed or palm-frond structures are visible while to the right there is a white-washed, one-storey building. Two European men...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c. 1870
Extent:: 1 b&w albumen print

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 355/1(49)
Title:: 'Bassidore Station'
Scope & Content:: Genre/Subject Matter: Scene showing a settlement and Indian troops on parade at Bassidore (Basaidu) Station on the western extremity of Qeshm (Kishm) Island. The mud and reed-built two-storey building behind the troops is surrounded by a fence. To the left of the image in the middle-ground he...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c. 1870
Extent:: 1 b&w albumen print

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 355/1(120)
Title:: 'Zanzibar'. Photographer: Sir John Kirk
Scope & Content:: Genre/Subject Matter: This panoramic view of the waterfront in Zanzibar is composed of five joined albumen prints. Taken from an elevated position, this view looks out onto the harbour, with the dhow fleet at anchor from centre to right of the image and several British naval vessels at left. ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1875
Extent:: 1 b&w panoramic image made up of 5 joined albumen prints

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

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

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

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 430/8(5)
Title:: '[Muscat] Sultan's Palace. 31. Oct 1900'. Photographer: Arthur Alexander Crookshank
Scope & Content:: Genre/Subject Matter This view of the bay of Muscat from an elevated position in the east was likely photographed from Al-Jalali fort. It shows the Al-Mirani fort at centre, along with the Sultan's Palace and a variety of other buildings lining the shore in the left middleground. Many small c...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 31 Oct 1900
Extent:: 1 b&w photographic print

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 430/8(6)
Title:: '[Muscat] Sidap. Village. 31. Oct 1900'. Photographer: Arthur Alexander Crookshank
Scope & Content:: Genre/Subject Matter This scene, taken from an elevated position looking southwards towards a bay, shows the village of Sidāb, approximately 3 km south of the Bay of Muscat. A well-trodden path or dried-up stream can be seen leading through the dwellings, the majority of which appear to be te...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 31 Oct 1900
Extent:: 1 b&w photographic print

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