[Photographer unknown].

Oil prospecting.

Stock Code 82987

[c.1925].

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Uncommon album featuring more than one hundred fine photographs that record development of oil industry in the begining of XX century. They show visits of British representatives to oil prospects in Albania, Yemen, Oman, Guatemala, Argentina and Persia.

Oblong folio (26.5 x 37.5 cm). 159 gelatin silver prints (mostly 10 x 13 cm), some with printed titles, other's in manuscript.
Contemporary boards; black calf spine restored.

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