Saudi Arabia and Kuwait | 18 photographs of the oil industry, 1960s

Auction Closed

November 12, 04:34 PM GMT

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

ARABIA, OIL INDUSTRY

A collection of eighteen photographs of the oil industry, 1960s


18 silver prints (most 95 x 115mm., or the reverse; one larger press print 165 x 190mm.), unmounted, most with contemporary typed or manuscript captions on the reverse, each preserved in an archival polyester sleeve

The images include 16 of Ras Tanura oil complex in Saudi Arabia showing workers and infrastructure, one of an oil complex in Kuwait, and a view of Mukulla port in Yemen with oil drums on the quay.

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