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Arabian American Oil Company – Al-Ahsa and Dhahran

Lot 113
28.04.2021 11:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
£ 3 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 519404
Lot 113 | Arabian American Oil Company – Al-Ahsa and Dhahran
Estimate value
£ 3 000 – 5 000
Arabian American Oil Company – Al-Ahsa and Dhahran
El Hasa [i.e. Al-Ahsa]. [Convent Station, N.J.]: Standard Oil Co., 1950. [With:] Dhahran. [Dhahran]: Arabian American Oil Co., 1953.
2 maps of the Al-Ahsa protectorate of Saudi Arabia and Dhahran, together with a rare aerial photograph of the Aramco Residential Camp, showing the state of the devlopment of the area in the 1950s.

El Hasa [i.e. Al-Ahsa]. [Convent Station, N.J.]: Standard Oil Co., 1950. Large folding and rolled lithographic wall map of the Al-Ahsa protectorate, Sheet No. 7 of the 12 sheet map of Arabia produced by Standard Oil for Aramco, printed in monochrome purple on evenly browned paper, mapped at a scale of 1:1,000,000 using a conformal conic projection, 1370 x 1005mm.

Dhahran. [Dhahran]: Arabian American Oil Co., May 1953. Large rolled lithographic map of the region around Dhahran, printed in monochrome blue with some roads and tracks outlined in red, scale of 1:500,000, 980 x 645mm.

[Sold with:] Aerial photograph of the Saudi Aramco Residential Camp at Dhahran. [No place, no publisher, c. 1950s]. Large black and white photograph of an aerial view of Dhahran taken from directly overhead, the image oriented NNW, showing the early form of the 'main camp', 910 x 905mm.
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