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Violet Dickson Photo Gallery: Gulf 1960s

The images in this gallery are from the Violet Dickson Collection GB165-0364 Album 8. Copyright was assigned to the Archive by H.Y.W.S.D. Dickson. The captions are those that appear on the back of the photographs.

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Album 8 'Desert Camps. Nasser at Nariyeh 1968'

Violet Dickson 8/1	Violet Dickson 8/2
Camels watering at ?In'Shoniyeh.	Camels watering at ?In'Shoniyeh.
Violet Dickson 8/3	Violet Dickson 8/2
The pick up sticks at top of a sand dune. Efforts to get the car out.	Muhammad Rashid sees Salim arriving in his camel.
Violet Dickson 8/5	Violet Dickson 8/6
Moving camps Naser helping Mizna & Baina load up.	Loading up the lorry to go to new camp site
Violet Dickson 8/7	Violet Dickson 8/8
The lorry arrives at new camp. Murra women & children sit on top.	We sit round the coffee fire while tents are put up. Hamad bin Rashid pounding the coffee.
Violet Dickson 8/9	Violet Dickson 8/10
Mishash abu ?Hadnqih. Jabir Jumaan's tent Xmas Day 1962.	General view of Dushan settlement of Jarrara - Bandar Faisal Duwish has his home here.
Violet Dickson 8/11	Violet Dickson 8/12
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Violet Dickson 8/13	Violet Dickson 8/14
'�commonly the housewife's key of her box is seen as a glittering pendant upon her veil backward..'	No label.
Violet Dickson 8/15	Violet Dickson 8/16
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Violet Dickson 8/17	Violet Dickson 8/18
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Violet Dickson 8/19	Violet Dickson 8/20
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Violet Dickson 8/21	Violet Dickson 8/22
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Violet Dickson 8/23
Faisal bin Hindal

Gara Plain Spring 1968 Truffles

Violet Dickson 8/24	Violet Dickson 8/25
No label. [Violet Dickson]	No label.
Violet Dickson 8/26	Violet Dickson 8/27
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Violet Dickson 8/28	Violet Dickson 8/29
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Violet Dickson 8/30	Violet Dickson 8/31
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Violet Dickson 8/32	Violet Dickson 8/33
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Violet Dickson 8/34	Violet Dickson 8/35
Jim Mandeville & meteorite brought up from Rub-al Khali by Aramco, 20.6.66	No label.
Violet Dickson 8/36
Spring 1968 Vi[olet Dickson] goes out to the Murra's desert camp.