The color photograph of Shahloul's head is 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. The originals are in the Comar Arabians collection of Garth and Joe Buchanan, now held by Carolyn and Dick Hasbrook, Twinbrook Arabians, Ames, Iowa.

The uploaded image is from Arabian Horse Archives, Inc., with some minor brightness/hue/saturation correction applied.