Camels drinking water, Jawf, Saudi Arabia
Photograph
Camels drinking water, Jawf, Saudi Arabia
1947
Gelatin silver print
Image: 13 3/16 × 10 7/16 in. (33.5 × 26.5 cm)
Gift of Robert Doherty
1973.0041.0002
Inscriptions inscribed in blue ink, TRC: 58543
inscribed in pencil and circled, TRC: 58
typed in black ink on label adhered to verso: C: Corsini Al Hasa, Saudi Arabia \ 58543 Al Jauf. The well that provides water for the camels, \ sheep and goats that graze in the area was originally \ drilled to supply water for a wildcat drilling operation. \ When the wildcat well was completed the water well was \ turned over to King Ibn Saud for the watering of his \ camels and for the sheep and goats of the bedouin tribes- \ men who tend the King's camels. Camels drinking at the \ watering trough.
stamped in red ink on verso: PLEASE CREDIT \ STANDARD OIL CO. (N. J.) [strikethrough in pencil]
inscribed in pencil: 58543 MAT
stamped in red ink on verso, BRC: PLEASE RETURN UNUSED PHOTOS TO \ STANDARD OIL CO., (N. J.) \ PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPT. \ 30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA \ NEW YORK 20, N. Y. [strikethrough in pencil]
inscribed in pencil and circled, TRC: 58
typed in black ink on label adhered to verso: C: Corsini Al Hasa, Saudi Arabia \ 58543 Al Jauf. The well that provides water for the camels, \ sheep and goats that graze in the area was originally \ drilled to supply water for a wildcat drilling operation. \ When the wildcat well was completed the water well was \ turned over to King Ibn Saud for the watering of his \ camels and for the sheep and goats of the bedouin tribes- \ men who tend the King's camels. Camels drinking at the \ watering trough.
stamped in red ink on verso: PLEASE CREDIT \ STANDARD OIL CO. (N. J.) [strikethrough in pencil]
inscribed in pencil: 58543 MAT
stamped in red ink on verso, BRC: PLEASE RETURN UNUSED PHOTOS TO \ STANDARD OIL CO., (N. J.) \ PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPT. \ 30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA \ NEW YORK 20, N. Y. [strikethrough in pencil]
