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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

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

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