Thesiger Collection

Portrait of a boy at in the town of Dhahran in Qahtan tribal territory. The boy wearing a curved Omani dagger.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce...

View of water sellers unloading imported water from a dhow (sailboat) at the harbour in Kuwait City. In the foreground men stand in the tide beside a dhow, loading filled...

View of the Sultan's Palace in the city of Shibam in Wadi Hadhramawt. In the foreground palm trees grow along the city walls. The Sultan's Palace sits in the distance...

Portrait of four merchants standing at their stall on a street in Dubai. Two men and two boys stand amongst piles of furniture in a stall tucked in an alcove...

View of an Arab man and two women walking through a market in Kuwait City. Behind them market stalls with large wooden doors line the street. Due to the nature...

A carved wooden screen in front of a window of a building at Seiyun.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage...

Seated portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin and one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, on one of the Abu Dhabi islands....

View of buildings at Shibam. A minaret it in the foreground to the right.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party resting in shade cast by a cluster of trees in the Sharqiyah Sands. One man walks in front of the tree carrying a large load...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party at a well in the plains below Hamrat ad Duru, during the party's journey from Masruq well to Al Hubi village. On the left two...

George Coryton, the Governor of Upper Nile Province, with a lion Thesiger shot in the Western Nuer District. Thesiger wrote that he was 'a tall man in obviously hard condition,...

Coronation procession in Addis Ababa for Emperor Haile Selassie, 1930.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they...

View of the Nile paddle-steamer Kereri, which served as the floating headquarters of the District Commissioner of the Western Nuer District.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce...

Interior view of one of the tukuls, or round thatched huts, which served as the old British Legation buildings in Addis Ababa (prior to the construction of a new building...

View of rocky terrain in the Jabal Meidob hills, with a camel walking in the foreground.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear...

A lake at Ounianga Kebir with cliffs and palm trees on the shore.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that...

Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger, standing outside the new British Legation building, holding the horns of a mountain nyala shot by his father.Due to the nature of these images, prints will...

Group portrait of Afar (Asaimara Danakil) warriors.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by...

View of tents at Wilfred Thesiger's camp at the Awash Station.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before...

Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger's Awash expedition party, including Thesiger himself (seated), Omar Ibrahim (standing behind him, wearing a turban and shorts), who was Thesiger's Somali headman on the expedition,...