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Map: "Rough Tribal Map of Arabia," from H.R.P. Dickson, "The Arab of the Desert", 1949
box: 1, folder: 1 (Material Type: Maps)
Photographs: Inauguration of Umm Shaif Oilfield, plus mailing envelope from BP addressed to Rogers, 28 October 1962
box: 1, folder: 2 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)
Description of images:
Six images, including Sheikh Shakhbout pressing plunger to begin loading of oil into BP tanker, "British Hussar," images of the "British Hussar" sailing away with first load of crude from Das Island, Sheikh Shakhbout with officials from BP and others in control room, and platform with seated dignataries, watching as H.R. Bridgeman, chairman of BP, gives a speech.
Photographs: Oil drilling barges and oil tanker, at or approaching Das Island (5 images), Undated, circa 1962.
box: 1, folder: 3 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)
Description of images:
Two images of different oil drilling barges being towed to Das Island, one barge moored at the island, men working on platform of one barge, and a photo of a Japanese oil tanker, "Kowa Maru," arriving at the island.
Photographs: Portraits of Sheikh Shakhbout bin Sultan al Nahyan, ruler of Abu Dhabi emirate, at Qasr al Hosn (3 images), September 1962
box: 1, folder: 4 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)
Description of images:
Two images of Sheikh Shakhbout standing at the entrance of his palace, Qasr al Hosn, and one portrait in profile.
Photographs: six unidentified men (British?), wearing Arabian national dress over tuxedos, seated on boat at night (3 images), Unidentified, circa 1962
box: 1, folder: 5 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)
Printed material: Abu Dhabi Marine Areas, Ltd., Persian Gulf Handbook (BP Training Division, 23 pages), undated, circa 1954
box: 1, folder: 6 (Material Type: Text)
Prospectus: Real estate development at Fort Picklecombe, Plymouth, 1963
box: 1, folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Text of speech: "Off-Shore Drilling" (2 typescript pages, with edits, and three maps), Undated, circa 1963
box: 1, folder: 8 (Material Type: Text)