Aden: a folio of thirty-six albumen prints including views of the port, Aden Camp, the Barracks, Rue du Bazar, the Sultan's Palace, and the surrounding territory

The town and seaport of Yemen in Arabia, Aden consists chiefly of a mass of barren and desolate volcanic rocks, extending five miles from east to west, and three from its northern shore to Ras Sanailah or Cape Aden its most southerly point. Its importance increased with the reopening of the Red Sea route to India when it became an important port of call, garrisoned by the British. It became Rimbaud's base for over four years, between 1880 and 1891, as the poet began his trading enterprises, and the present photographs describe the port at precisely this time and at a time when Rimbaud himself had taken up photography.