This blueprint sketch map shows the Qatar Peninsular, including: the oil wells area on the Western coast (where the camp of Petroleum Development (Qatar) Limited was located); the track leading from there to Doha; the landing ground at Doha; the boundary between Qatar and Saudi Arabia; the Salwa...
Genre/Subject Matter: This black and white photograph shows the town of Mattra [Muttrah], a suburb of Muscat. Inscriptions: To the left of the image, in pen: ‘Landing Ground’, ‘Track to Mattra’, ‘Road Mattra to Muscat’. Arrows in blue pen and lines in red pen indicate the positions of these ...
Genre/Subject Matter: This black and white photograph shows Muscat Town. Inscriptions: To the left of the image, in pen: ‘1. Sultan’s Palace’, ‘2. R.A.F. Rest House & W.T. [Wireless Telegraph] Station’, ‘3. British Political Agency’, and ‘4. Old Portuguese Forts, now manned by Local Polic...
‘No.1. Bedouin tent showing guest compartment on right.’
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Genre/Subject Matter: This black and white photograph shows a Bedouin tent in Kuwait, with a man standing in the sand in the foreground in front of the tent, a sheep to the left behind the man, a boy to the right behind the man, and the man’s wife behind the boy. The compartment on the right of...
Genre/Subject Matter: This black and white photograph shows a Bedouin tent in Kuwait, with a boy, a man, the man’s wife, and another man standing in front of it. Inscriptions: Printed label on the reverse of the image: ‘No.2. Bedouin tent.
‘No.4. 5 ft.2 Barracouda or Sirmahi caught at KHOR KUWAI.’
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Genre/Subject Matter: This black and white photograph shows a man, presumably Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and HM Consul-General, Bushire, with his left hand holding a rope looped around a plank above his head, attached to which is a five foo...
Genre/Subject Matter: This black and white photograph shows Muscat from one side of the bay, with Jiwani Fort on the left hand side of the image, and on the right hand side of the image the British Political Agency, the hospital and Assistant Surgeon’s quarters, and the Telegraphs and Customs b...
Genre/Subject Matter: This black and white photograph shows the fort at Birkah [Barka], in the Batineh [Al Bāţinah] region of Oman, with a tree in the foreground in front of the fort. Inscriptions: Printed label on the reverse of the image: ‘No.7. Birkah Fort, Batineh.’
Genre/Subject Matter: This black and white photograph shows Hazam Fort in Oman from the outside, with trees on either side of the fort. In front of the fort are three groups of men in traditional Omani dress standing in detachments with Omani flags. Two other men are also visible on the ground,...
Genre/Subject Matter: This black and white photograph shows one part of the walls of Hazam Fort in Oman, from the outside. Several men in traditional Omani dress are standing on the roof of the fort, and there is another man in Omani dress standing in the bottom left corner of the image. The wi...
