View of Ras al Arz with dwelling and beacon. The photograph was part of a Report by David W. Hood, Supplementary to that of a Committee of Enquiry on the Lighting and Buoyage of the Persian Gulf.
The photograph shows the steamer Julnar, owned by the Tigris and Euphrates Steam Navigation Company. The photograph has been taken on the Shatt al-Arab and shows a side view of the steamer, which is moored alongside a riverbank lined with palm trees, at Al Ma‘qil, Basra. The photograph (original...
