Album of tour of the Persian Gulf. Photographer: Rev. Edwin Aubrey Storrs-Fox

Content

Genre/Subject Matter:

The album contains landscape, maritime and architectural snapshot views of a tour in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , including locations such as Mathra, Muscat, Bunder Abbas [Bandar Abbas], Linga [Lengeh], Bahrein [Bahrain], Bushire [Bushehr], Koweit [Kuwait], Mohammerah [Khorammshahr], Ahwaz [Ahvaz] and Basreh [Basra] as well as Karachi. Locations visited are indicated in a sketch map pasted to the inside front cover of the album.

Elements:

1 ‘Karachi: S. S. “Dumas” (Gulf Mail)’

2 ‘Karachi: Arab Dhow’

3 ‘Karachi: Arab Dhows’

4 ‘Mathra Bay’

5 ‘Muscat’

6 ‘Sedab’

7 ‘Muscat’

8 ‘Muscat: Mathra Gate’

9 ‘Muscat: From Mathra Road’

10 ‘Riyam’

11 ‘Mathra’

12 ‘Mathra: Country Boat’

13 ‘Bunder Abbas: “Englishman’s Hat” (Customs House)’

14 ‘Bunder Abbas’

15 ‘Linga: Boat Basin & Badghirs’

16 ‘Linga’

17 ‘Linga’

18 ‘Linga’

19 ‘Linga’

20 ‘Linga’

21 ‘Linga’

22 ‘Linga’

23 ‘Linga: Swahili Pearl Divers’

24 ‘Linga: Swahili Pearl Divers’

25 ‘Linga: “Birkehs”’

26 ‘Linga’

27 ‘Bahrein’

28 ‘Bahrein’

29 ‘Bahrein: The Tombs’

30 ‘Bahrein: The Tombs’

31 ‘Bahrein: The Tombs’

32 ‘Bushire: Imamzada’

34 ‘Bushire’

34 ‘Koweit: Cargo Boats’

35 Koweit: Customs House’

36 ‘Koweit: Coffee Shop’

37 ‘Koweit’

38 ‘Koweit’

39 ‘Mohammerah: Karun River’

40 ‘Mohammerah’

41 ‘Mohammerah: Shatt-el-Arab’

42 ‘Mohammerah: A ‘Mahela”’

43 ‘Ahwaz’

44 ‘Ahwaz’

45 ‘Ahwaz: Karun River’

46 ‘Tembi River: Near Der-i-Kezineh’

47 ‘Tembi River’

48 ‘Maidan-i-Haftan’

Distinctive Features:

Each window mount is formed of a two-tone card and paper cut-out: the dark brown paper of the album is laid over a cream-coloured mounting card, which forms a c. 2-4 mm frame around each image.

Inscriptions:

Brief handwritten captions in English, including dates, accompany each print.

In pencil a consecutive numbering system (1–48) is written alongside each image, usually near the lower right corner of the image.

An alternative image sequence (a–b only, sequence repeats on each page) is indicated in pencil near the upper left corner of each image. This has been crossed out, also in pencil.

Pagination – since crossed out – is indicated in the upper right or left corner of each page in pencil.

Labels:

A gold, stamped design appears in the lower right corner of the front cover of the album with a sun-like symbol and the words ‘PHOTO~ GRAPHS’

Extent and format

48 b&w silver gelatin The principal photographic process used for black and white photography from the 1870s. prints bound into a brown, cloth-covered photograph album

It is grouped into

'The Persian Gulf'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/i

'Karachi: S. S. "Dumas" (Gulf Mail)'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/1

'Karachi: Arab Dhow'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/2

'Karachi: Arab Dhows'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/3

'Mathra Bay'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/4

'Muscat'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/5

'Sedab'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/6

'Muscat'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/7

'Muscat: Mathra Gate'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/8

'Muscat: from Mathra Road'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/9

'Riyam'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/10

'Mathra'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/11

'Mathra: Country Boat'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/12

'Bundar Abbas: "Englishman's Hat" (Custom House)'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/13

'Bunder Abbas'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/14

'Linga: Boat Basin & "Badghirs"'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/15

'Linga'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/16

'Linga'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/17

'Linga'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/18

'Linga'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/19

'Linga'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/20

'Linga'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/21

'Linga'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/22

'Linga: Swahili Pearl Divers'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/23

'Linga: Swahili Pearl Divers'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/24

'Linga: Birkehs'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/25

'Linga'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/26

'Bahrein'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/27

'Bahrein'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/28

'Bahrein: The Tombs'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/29

'Bahrein: The Tombs'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/30

'Bahrein: The Tombs'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/31

'Bushire: Imamzada'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/32

'Bushire'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/33

'Koweit: Cargo Boats'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/34

'Koweit: Customs House'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/35

'Koweit: Coffee Shop'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/36

'Koweit'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/37

'Koweit'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/38

'Mohammerah: Karun River'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/39

'Mohammerah'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/40

'Mohammerah: Shatt-El-Arab'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/41

'Mohammerah: A "Mahela"'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/42

'Ahwaz'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/43

'Ahwaz'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/44

'Ahwaz: Karun River'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/45

'Tembi River: Near Der-i-Kezineh [Darkhazīneh]'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/46

'Tembi River'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/47

'Maidan-i-Naftan'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/6/48

Physical characteristics

Dimensions:

243 x 163 mm

Materials:

Dark brown cloth, dark brown paper, cream-coloured card, silver gelatin The principal photographic process used for black and white photography from the 1870s. prints, black ink and pencil.

Condition:

The album is in good condition except for minor surface dirt throughout. Several images are buckling and rising out of their mounts due to incorrect. Red ink has transferred from the sketch map on the inside front cover to the cream-coloured mounting card surrounding the first image (Photo 496/6/1).

Foliation:

‘a–b’; ‘1–48’; ‘1–24’

Process:

Silver gelatin The principal photographic process used for black and white photography from the 1870s. print

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Photograph

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Photo 496/6

History of this record

Date(s)

1916-18 (CE, Gregorian)

Places

KarachiMathraSedabBunder Abbas MuscatBushireMohammerahKoweitRiyamLingaBahreinAhwaz

People & organisations

Edwin Aubrey Storrs Fox

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Album of tour of the Persian Gulf. Photographer: Rev. Edwin Aubrey Storrs-Fox, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, Photo 496/6, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100022635324.0x000001> [accessed 4 October 2023]

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