Eastern Arabia Archive

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صورة لاثنين من أبناء تركي بن عبدالله العطيشان، المنطقة الشرقية، المملكة العربية السعودية، 1946–1954م.
تصوير: إيلو باتيجيلي.

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Portrait of a girl with pigtails, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia, 1946–1954.
Photographed by Ilo Battigelli.
© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.
صورة لفتاة بجدائل، المنطقة الشرقية، المملكة العربية السعودية، 1946–1954م.
تصوير: إيلو باتيجيلي.

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A watchful soldier in a jeep keeps an eye on proceedings during King Saud bin Abdulaziz's visit to Dammam (1946-1954)

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A family portrait of a smiling man holding a baby who wears an embroidered hat with a tassel, and a girl with plaits, from the Eastern Province (1946–1954).

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Portrait of two sisters. The older sister wears a embroidered Bukhnuq (a circular head covering with a hole cut out for the face) which is worn by girls before marriage (1946-1954)

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🇰🇼 Traditional Pearling in the Gulf, Kuwait, 1959.

Before the oil era, dangerous pearl diving was the main lifeline for Kuwait and the Gulf states.

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A family portrait of a smiling man holding a baby who wears an embroidered hat with a tassel, and a girl with plaits, from the Eastern Province (1946–1954).

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Portrait of two sisters. The older sister wears a embroidered Bukhnuq (a circular head covering with a hole cut out for the face) which is worn by girls before marriage (1946-1954)

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Portrait of a man sitting on a mooring bollard at the quay in Ras Tanura, with the customs house in the background (1946-1954)

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A watchful soldier in a jeep keeps an eye on proceedings during King Saud bin Abdulaziz's visit to Dammam (1946-1954)

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@justwanttalk1 وفيها هويات مختلفة جدا عن بعضها

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@mt20090 @CallAnxiety كل الناس من كل المناطق فيها الخير والبركة وماحد احسن من احد وكل العالم فيها الزين والشين والعدل والردي. هذي الجملة الاولى والأخيرة أما آخذ راحتي في غيري وبعدها أقول إخوان هذي ماصارت

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@ui4_re @roritaarchive https://t.co/MdHnJMDyjw

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Two boys carry a basket past the barracks which sit next to the Souq Al-Khamis, Al-Hofuf (1946-1954)

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A Bedouin woman weighs dates on an equal arm beam balance in the souq, Dhahran

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King Abd al-'Aziz (on the right) with next to him Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Hakim of Bahrain both seated on a sofa at a feast organised by Emir Saud bin Abdullah bin Jiluwi, Governor of the Eastern Province in Dhahran

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@SamSalGam للأسف والله مالي اي صلة في الحسا لا من بعيد ولا من قريب

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roritaarchive Silver and turquoise bracelet from Saudi Arabia, second half of the 20th century.
سوار من الفضة والفيروز من المملكة العربية السعودية، النصف الثاني من القرن العشرين.
#najd

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@SamSalGam هذا الكلام لو كانت الشرقية بس الخبر والدمام طبعا