Author: [PHOTOGRAPHY - IRAQ AND PERSIA].
Title: [Two photo albums of Red Sea Ports, Mesopotamia and Bushehr].[Iran and Iraq, ca. 1917-1918]. 2 volumes. Oblong 8vo (ca. 15.5 x 20 cm). With 191 (resp. 95 and 96) gelatin silver prints (all ca. 4 x 6 cm). Contemporary cloth, one album in in red and one in grey, with 'Kodak' lettered in gold on the front board, and a black classical meander border tooled near the foot. The albums are kept together by a black ribbon.
Description: [12]; [12] ll.Remarkable set of Kodak photo albums, with nearly 200 photographs of military life and the oil industry in Iran and Iraq in the early 20th century. The photographs were most likely taken by the compiler of the albums, and show scenes from his daily life. Most of them are captioned. Included are images of Persian oil fields, Abu Zenema (Sinai coast), Port Sudan, Bushehr, Basra, various locations along the Tigris, Euphrate and Shatt al-Arab rivers, Ashwaz and Shush. The photographs also show locals involved in various activities, including races, shark hunting, and selling wares. The compiler of the album was likely a British soldier who was stationed in Basra and other locations in Iran and Iraq after the First World War.The edges and corners of both albums are slightly scuffed, with a few light stains on the back board of the red album. The paper on which the photographs are mounted is slightly browned, ten of the photos have either creased corners or a damaged surface, some photographs a little loose within their windows, missing a photo on the final page of the red album. Otherwise in good condition.

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