Detail View: SHIMMER: Oilfield Accommodation
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Title:
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Oilfield Accommodation
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Creation Date:
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1960
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Image Date:
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1960
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Period:
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20th century
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Start Date:
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1955
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End Date:
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1960
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Location:
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Gachsaran, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad
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Country:
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IRAN
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Display Creator:
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FRY, DREW & PARTNERS
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Image ID:
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10-0220
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Description:
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Exterior view: stone arches in front of accommodation blocks. From 1955 Fry, Drew & Partners built accommodation and office blocks for the Anglo-Persian Oil Company at the first oilfield in Iran at Masjid-i-Suleiman (Khozestan Province) and also planned a new oilfield township at Gachsaran (Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province). The photographer was an architect working for Fry, Drew & Partners (see Related Information).
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Rights:
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© Sheffield Hallam University
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Permissions:
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For educational use only. This image may be used in print or digital materials provided that full acknowledgment is given, expressed as follows: " © < insert details from the 'Rights' field >. Photographed by < insert details from the 'Photographed by' field >."
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Related Information:
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Duncan Horne, an architect, left a collection of slide transparencies on his death. These were donated to Sheffield Hallam University's Slide Collection by his daughter in 2007. Duncan Horne trained in Liverpool, and then worked in London for Maxwell FRY, Jane DREW, and Partners. He moved to Australia in 1965 where he worked with Bert HELY.
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Photographed by:
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Duncan Horne
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Creator:
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FRY, DREW & PARTNERS
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Creator Dates - Born:
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1948
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Creator Dates - Died:
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1973
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Creator Role:
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Architectural firm.
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Subject Heading:
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Architecture -- 1900-2000
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Subject Heading:
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Architecture -- Iran
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Subject Heading:
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Industrial housing
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Subject Heading:
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Oil industries -- Iran
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