Friday, November 6, 2020

The World around 1930 | 20 FascinatingImages

0-Men of the Wahhabi Brotherhood, white-turbaned
00-Men of Asir, the Southern Province, with Myrtle in their hair,
1-1930 Cadillac saloon beneath the Amber Gate, Jaipur, India, c1930
2-An elephant named Minnie from India is hoisted from ship to ship at Middlesbrough docks, in Cleveland, for the final leg of her 14,000 mile journey to London Zoo. England, ca. 1930.
2-Northern India, Simla, british church in the Ridge road. - probably in the 1910s
3-The Sheikh Yusif Yassin, head of the political Diwan, Gerald de Gaury (1897-1984) was a British military officer he was the British political agent in Kuwait during the 1930s.
The British Canvoy
5-Pilgrims about to ashore,
6-Bedouin falconer pilgrims
7-Saudi tribesmen shepherds bring sheep for sale and slaughter after the sermon on Mount Arafat
8-Pilgrims in camp
9-Throwing stones at Mura (at The Deviln during the pilgrimage at Mecca
10-Women's litters on the way to Mecca
11-Yassin, a Kuwaiti, Persian by origin - our cook
12-Bedouin women
13-Royal falconers
14-Man kneeling on sand by open fire
15-The last (horses) of the Managia strain
Ibn Saud's army on march near Habl, 8th March 1911
INDIA - DECEMBER 17 Inside a Great Indian Peninsula Railway dining car, probably first class. At this time long distance trains had dining cars, but some shorter journeys did not have dining facilities.
Protests. India. pic circa 1930's. Supporters of Mahatma Gandhi, about to start the  Salt March a protest against a British law which stated that only the British could profit' from the production and sale of salt
 

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