View of an empty street ... India

View of an empty street ... IndiaView of an empty street in the city of Jeddah. In the right foreground gas or cans sit on the balcony of a shop. In the background a child stands beside a two wheeled cart. Tall multi storey buildings fronted with wooden balconies line the street. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.

with (the mountain) Jabal Kaur in the distance

View of locals and Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a well during their journey from Jabal Sumeini to Sharjah

In the distance many large dhows are beached along the shore

Wilfred Thesiger wears a cartridge belt on leather suspenders over his white thobe (shirt) and a plain headscarf topped with an 'agal (head rope)

A few sprigs of dry grass lie in the sand

Their quarry

Standing half length profile portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha

another saddled camel is couched by some bushes

The two boys kneel next to each other in the sand

Muhammad al Auf

two men walk with their camels

It the far distance a high mountain rises above the plain