Photos

Part of a series of 120 primarily glass slides taken by Joe Buchanan's father, Robert Earle Buchanan, a professor of Agriculture at Iowa State University, on trips to the Middle East in 1946 and 1949. In the Comar Arabians collection of Garth and Joe Buchanan. Now held by Carolyn and Dick Hasbrook, Twinbrook Arabians, Ames, Iowa.

Part of a series of 120 primarily glass slides taken by Joe Buchanan's father, Robert Earle Buchanan, a professor of Agriculture at Iowa State University, on trips to the Middle East in 1946 and 1949. In the Comar Arabians collection of Garth and Joe Buchanan. Now held by Carolyn and Dick Hasbrook, Twinbrook Arabians, Ames, Iowa.

Part of a series of 120 primarily glass slides taken by Joe Buchanan's father, Robert Earle Buchanan, a professor of Agriculture at Iowa State University, on trips to the Middle East in 1946 and 1949. In the Comar Arabians collection of Garth and Joe Buchanan. Now held by Carolyn and Dick Hasbrook, Twinbrook Arabians, Ames, Iowa.

Part of a series of 120 primarily glass slides taken by Joe Buchanan's father, Robert Earle Buchanan, a professor of Agriculture at Iowa State University, on trips to the Middle East in 1946 and 1949. In the Comar Arabians collection of Garth and Joe Buchanan. Now held by Carolyn and Dick Hasbrook, Twinbrook Arabians, Ames, Iowa.

Part of a series of 120 primarily glass slides taken by Joe Buchanan's father, Robert Earle Buchanan, a professor of Agriculture at Iowa State University, on trips to the Middle East in 1946 and 1949. In the Comar Arabians collection of Garth and Joe Buchanan. Now held by Carolyn and Dick Hasbrook, Twinbrook Arabians, Ames, Iowa.

Part of a series of 120 primarily glass slides taken by Joe Buchanan's father, Robert Earle Buchanan, a professor of Agriculture at Iowa State University, on trips to the Middle East in 1946 and 1949. In the Comar Arabians collection of Garth and Joe Buchanan. Now held by Carolyn and Dick Hasbrook, Twinbrook Arabians, Ames, Iowa.

Part of a series of 120 primarily glass slides taken by Joe Buchanan's father, Robert Earle Buchanan, a professor of Agriculture at Iowa State University, on trips to the Middle East in 1946 and 1949. In the Comar Arabians collection of Garth and Joe Buchanan. Now held by Carolyn and Dick Hasbrook, Twinbrook Arabians, Ames, Iowa.

Part of a series of 120 primarily glass slides taken by Joe Buchanan's father, Robert Earle Buchanan, a professor of Agriculture at Iowa State University, on trips to the Middle East in 1946 and 1949. In the Comar Arabians collection of Garth and Joe Buchanan. Now held by Carolyn and Dick Hasbrook, Twinbrook Arabians, Ames, Iowa.

Wilfrid Blunt at "the desert" at Crabbet Park, next to the house, with the Sa'ud mare Sherifa, a Hamdaniyah Simriyah. Photo dated 1883. Other photographs were taken at the same time. Thanks to Kate McLachlan for finding this.

Carolyn Hasbrook furnished these photos of her first farm tour to look at Arabian horses in 1968. The Hasbrooks are a pillar of the Azraff-Ferzon breeding community.

Thanks to Kate McLachlan for this unusual photo.

Tish Hewitt and Jimmie Dean at the 1966 Arabian Horse National Championships in Springfield IL, in 1966. Photo by Carolyn Hasbook.

The original photographs are in an old photo album, that once belonged to Mr. A.D. Bolhuis, an Arab horse breeder active in the Netherlands before and just after WW2. His widow gave the album in 1984 to the then secretary of the Dutch Arab Horse Society. The album is now owned by his widow, Mrs. C. van der Velden.

The photographs may have been taken by the then Dutch consul in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Dr. Adriaanse, who was an Arab horse devotee, but that is just a guess. In the album the horses appeared only under their strain names, not their actual names. What I think is clear from the photographs, is that they were taken in Saudi Arabia, possibly just before the transport from Jeddah to the United Kingdom. — Kees Mol

The mare Zamzam at the Royal Agricultural Society, Egypt. A 1932 grey mare tracing to old Egyptian breeding, by Gamil III (Gamil Manial x Aroussa) out of Bint Radia (Mabrouk Manial x Radia). Photo taken by Dr. Robert Buchanan in 1946.