More than three decades of press photographs from the Gulf

[Kuwait]. Kuwait photo collection.

€ 4,500.00

More than three decades of press photographs from the Gulf, including early city views of Kuwait from the 1960s. Unusual in its extent, the present archive comprises images of many notable personalities, including Sheikh Saad Alabdullah Al-Sabah with Abdullah ben Abdulaziz, later King of Saudi Arabia, in 1983, the Emir of Sharjah, Sultan Al Qasimi ben Mohamed, visiting Kuwait in 1975, Sheikh Saad Al-Sabah on a state visit to Baghdad in the 1970s, King Fahad ben Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia in Bahrain in December 1988, a portrait of Sheikh Abdullah Mubarak, known as the "Eagle of the Gulf", Sheikh Abdulla As-Salim As-Sabah at Sif Palace in Kuwait City, as well as the Iraqi ambassador and the Bahrain Prime Minister during state visits to Kuwait.

Several images focus on international tensions such as the 1973 oil embargo, showing officials from oil producing countries discussing the use of oil as a weapon, along with a visit of U.S. treasury secretary William E. Simon to Kuwait attempting to lower oil prices and to establish closer relations between the U.S. and the Gulf states, with hints at the Gulf War and regional unrest (pictures of Saddam Hussein in 1991). Further, the photographs revolve around the flourishing oil industry and other developing forms of business, displaying facilities of Kuwait Oil, pipe laying and storage tanks, refineries, employee housing and aerial views of Ahmad, power stations under construction in 1958, and the Al Khorafi Travel Agency in Kuwait City.