The palace, built by Sultan Abdulaziz (r. 1861-76) was designed and constructed between 1863 and 1867 by the Balyan family, a prominent family of court architects in the service of Ottoman sultans., Title and date devised by Library staff., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2017.0112, 2-D Graphi ...

Title from the item, date devised., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2018.0263-0103, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i25587729, BIB-ID: 2719003

The Commandant, Qatar Police, Ronald Cochrane (in police uniform) with Group Captain (ret.) PL (Phillip) Plant, advisor to Sheikh Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani, inspecting the Qatar Police at Police Headquarters in June 1954. In the right background is a barrel of a 2-pounder Daimler armoured car., Titl ...

Photographs include the market scene in Suakin showing the house of the Osman Digna (c. 1840-1926), the famous Sudanese military commander during the Mahdist War (1881–1899); group portraits of local people, Berbers and Somali police corps in Aden; city views of Lahej and of the Sultan's Palace., ...

Photographic collection documenting the expedition led by the American archaeologist Wendell Phillips in Yemen in the early 1950s. Photographs show some of the members of the crew: Wendell Philipps; Eileen Salama, secretary and translator; William Foxwell Albright, chief archaeologist; Mrs. Gladys T ...

Photographs show southern Yemeni soldiers adjusting their rocket launcher, victims hospitalized Ibn Khaldoun hospital in Lahj, refugees waiting for food distribution in Aden, treatment of a child victim of a North Yemeni air strike., Date from item, titled devised by Library staff. Photographs are c ...

The tradespeople depicted include a barber, a fletcher, a carder of wool and a water-seller (bhishti). The views of Lahore monuments include the mausoleum of Jahangir, the Badshahi Mosque, and Wazir Khan's Mosque., Title and date devised by Library staff. Six paintings with watermark Lumsden & S ...

Studio portrait of Abdullah Bin Alawi, also known as Prince Abudin, the son of a deposed Sultan of Nzwani Island, in the Comoros Archipelago, who had once represented his father as an ambassador to Mauritius. Though in reality no longer a prince, in early 1858 he managed to convince the British Poli ...

Title and date devised by Library staff., The photograph portraits T. E. Lawrence in Bedouin costumes, probably in Wejh. The coastal city of Wejh was to be the base for attacks on the Hejaz railway during the Arab Revolt., Main Heritage Display General, HC.HP.2017.0017, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i242173 ...

Title and date devised by Library staff. The print is signed "A. Beato" in the negative., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2016.0053-0029, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i2647444x, BIB-ID: 2830135