Volume IV · No. 04 · Spring MCMLII المجلد الرابع — العدد الرابع
Desert Oil Review
Published London · Distributed Baghdad يصدر في لندن — يوزّع في بغداد
Photo Essay · Mesopotamia by Night

Oil-Black
Photogravure
Over Desert Brown

A photographic record of the lower Euphrates: ziggurat ruins, marsh ferries, and the pipework of the southern fields, printed in the duotone register that has carried this journal since 1952.

In This Issue 96 pages
  1. 01 The Ferry at Qurna p. 12
  2. 02 Refinery, Daura p. 24
  3. 03 Ziggurat of Ur p. 38
  4. 04 Reed Houses, Hor p. 52
  5. 05 Pipeline North p. 66
  6. 06 Notes from Basra p. 84
Plate IV
Ziggurat & Pylon, near Ur Photographed at moonrise, March 1952. Duotone, photogravure plate.
زقّورة وأبراج النفط قرب أور — تصوير عند طلوع القمر، آذار ١٩٥٢.
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