[Emirate of Kuwait]. Alkuayt wadawahiha [Kuwait and its suburbs, no. 2359].

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Early road map of Kuwait City during the British mandate. Indicates schools, hospitals, parks, power plants, and reservoirs, along with Sulaibikhat Camp and an area marked "His Excellency Sheikh Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah's land".

Sulaibikhat Camp was constructed by the UK, comprising approximately 200 bungalow-style residential units, a supermarket, three tennis clubs, a cinema, hairstylist, outdoor swimming pool, and police station. The British deserted the camp after Kuwait gained independence in 1961, but it was soon occupied by senior doctors, engineers, pharmacists, veterinarians, lawyers, and judges working for the Government of Kuwait.

Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah (1914-91) was the youngest son of the founder of the modern state of Kuwait, Sheikh Mubarak Al-Kabir (“Mubarak the Great”). From 1950 to 1960, Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah was Deputy Ruler of Kuwait and acted as the de facto ruler on a frequent and consecutive basis, from three to eleven months in the last three years during this period.

With a few red pencil annotations by an English-speaking reader, indicating places of interest such as the harbour, airport, quarantine hospital, municipality, and "Sabah Gate".