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IRAQ
Two albums of photographic views, portraits and groups in Iraq, including numerous of Baghdad, the R.A.F. base at nearby Hinaidi, Mosul, Kurkuk, and other areas visited during "leave up North", taken or compiled by William Reynish of the Royal Air Force, [c.1928-1933]

3 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £1,062.50 inc. premium

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IRAQ

Two albums of photographic views, portraits and groups in Iraq, including numerous of Baghdad, the R.A.F. base at nearby Hinaidi, Mosul, Kurkuk, and other areas visited during "leave up North", taken or compiled by William Reynish of the Royal Air Force, approximately 250 mostly gelatin silver prints (mostly in corner mounts, some pasted-in, between one and 5 images per page), images between 60 x 90mm., and 160 x 215mm.), contemporary cloth, rubbed, one hinge cracked, oblong 4to, [c.1928-1933]

Footnotes

Includes: upwards of 50 images of Baghdad (St. George's Church, River Tigris, "High Street" by day and night, Ur Junction railway, Lancaster and Maude bridges, Hindiyah Barrage, aerial views, etc.); a series of "snap shots" of a tour "up north" including visits to Mosul, Rowandusy Gorge, Kaniquin oil fields, Kurdarrah, and Basrah (several of the Bas-relief sculptures); 10 images of Sheikh Mahumd "surrender" to Major A.T. Wilson; local inhabitants including barber, butcher, "Hubble Bubble smoker", a falconer; a good series of the buildings at the Royal Airforce base at Hinaidi, and the activities of the staff (the parachute workshop, playing hockey and athletics, "fishing" in a ditch, cross-dressed costumes for Christmas performances in 1928 and 1931, eating water melon; "first week with the car"); approximately 25 showing aircraft in flight or grounded, including "Parachute machine J7872", "Major Stack's record machine (force landed at Hinaidi"), "Myself & Fl. McEvoy Whappitt", and crashed planes at Hinaidi and banks of the Tigris.

Provenance: Probably compiled by William Reynish, Royal Air Force, with a loosely inserted certificate issued to him whilst stationed at Malta in 1933, and a photograph of him in Arab headdress with knife, captioned "Bill, Hinaidi, Iraq, Jan. 9, 1931".

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