A stunning aerial image of Jeddah, taken as part of Aero Services Corp's work surveying work of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This would from a part of Glenn Brown's project to map the entire kingdom. As discussed by Parry, ‘all modern maps of the kingdom trace their roots back to these first publications.”

Taken from the skies, it shows the whole of the city including the harbour, airport and roads. This outlines the city's strategic location for pilgrims on route to the holy sites of Mecca and Medina.

Aero Sevices Corp were founded in Philadelphia in 1919 and were the oldest flying corporation in the world. They provided photo-mosiacs to update older cartographic information for Brown's project.

The plan for a cooperative mapping project of the peninsula was initiated in 1955 when an agreement was reached between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the U.S. Department of State and the Arabian-American Oil Co. Brown was selected to lead this project based on his previous experience within the Kingdom investigating water supplies in the Al Kharj desert (this work going on to form his PhD).

Individual degree sheets were printed from 1956 onwards. These sheets then fed into the large-scale map of the Arabian Peninsula, first printed - in both Arabic and English - in 1958.

Rare. Seemingly unlisted on Worldcat, it is possible that a copy is held in the Smithosian in the Virgil Kauffman/Aero Service Corporation Collection (box 1, folder 12). This item was offered for auction at Sotheby's in 2021.