Here is a blog post with links to other collections of old photographs of Kuwait

An old postcard seen on delcampe

Here are photographs taken by Dennis Sylvester Hurd, when he lived in Kuwait in the 1980s and taught at Al-Bayan Bilingual School. I found these photos through the twitter thread of Asseel Al-Ragam

Photographs taken by Christine Osborne, author of “Travels with My Hat.” The photos take between the 1970s and early 1990s.

Photos taken by Miranda Koptezky, found on Wikipedia Commons.

From Getty Images by Jean-Claude Deutsch

Here are some wonderful pictures from the early 1980s that come from the MIT Library.

Here are some great photographs of Al Wataniya in the early 1980s from the MIT Library.

From the flickr album “Old Kuwait”

These images are from when Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show came to Kuwait in 1986

This Kuwait Times article discusses how the architecture of the 1980s in Kuwait is disappearing, notably the Salam Building in Salmiya, the Kuwait Airways Building, Bayt Lothan, and Sawaber.