TABLE OF CONTENTS


Descriptive Summary

Biographical Information

Scope and Content Note

Arrangement of the Papers

Restrictions

Selected Search Terms

Related Material

Administrative Information

Bibliography

Detailed Description of the Collection

Series 1: Myron Bement Smith Collection

Series 2: Antoin Sevruguin Photographs, 1870s - 1930s

Antoin Sevruguin Photographs

A Finding Aid to his Photographs



Descriptive Summary

Repository: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Creator: Sevruguin, Antoin, d. 1933
Title: Antoin Sevruguin Photographs
Dates: 1880s - ca. 1910
Quantity: 2 lin. ft.
Abstract: Antoin Sevruguin (1830s-1933) was an official photographer of the Imperial Court of Iran whose commercial photography studio was one of the most successful in Tehran from the late 1870s to about 1934. The images in this collection provide a rich visual documentation of the Qajar and early Pahlavi dynasties of Iran. The astonishing range of Antoin Sevruguin's photographs, and the prolific output of the studio, provides today's viewer with an important resource for examining the cultural histories and hierarchical elements of Iranian society. They assist the scholar in studying architectural sites that may have been damaged or destroyed, or are unavailable for first-hand investigation. Increasingly, the prints are valued for their artistic elents that may sometimes overshadow their documentary value. Most significantly, Sevruguin's images form part of an ongoing history that links a distant past and place to the present.

Biographical Information

Antoin Sevruguin (late 1830s-1933) operated the most celebrated commercial photography studio in Tehran during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His career coincided with a critical period of modern Iranian history, an era of gradual change, stretching from the reign of Nasir al-din Shah (reigned 1848-1896) to that of Reza Shah Pahlavi (reigned 1925-1941.) His photographs were perhaps the most widely circulated and published in the West.

Commercial studios understood that photography was the optimal tool for marketing the nostalgic pleasures and illusions of the Middle East entertained by Westerners. Sevruguin, as many others had done before and after him, created an image of the Near East for foreign viewers that reinforced certain Orientalist stereotypes. However, as one who lived the majority of his life in Tehran, Antoin Sevruguin also had an ardent affection for Iran and Iranian culture. Rather than being a detached observer, he maintained a personal and informed relationship with the country in which he chose to live and visually portray. His photography served audiences both indigenous and Western.

Sevruguin, an Armenian Christian of Russian descent, was born during the late 1830s (precise date unknown) at the Russian embassy in Tehran. His father, Vassil de Sevruguin, a diplomat with the Russian embassy in Tehran, married Achin Khanoum, and together they had seven children - four boys (Ivan, Antoin, Kolia, and Emanuel) and three girls (names unknown.) Following Vassil de Sevruguin's untimely death from a horse riding accident, his wife moved to her hometown of T'bilisi, the capital of modern-day Georgia. Financial circumstances then forced the family to move to the provincial town of Akoulis, where the brothers attended school. After graduation, Antoin returned to T'bilisi and took up painting but soon became fascinated by the new medium of photography. It was there that he worked with the Russian photographer Dimitri Ivanovich Ermakov (1845-1916) and was greatly influenced by the extensive photographs Ermakov took while traveling in Iran, Crimea, Central Asia, and Caucasus.

It was sometime in the 1870s when Sevruguin decided to undertake a photographic survey of the people, landscape, and architecture of Iran and persuaded his brothers Kolia and Emanuel to assist him in the adventure. They embarked by caravan to Azerbaijan and then continued the project in Kurdistan and Luristan. This became the first of many expeditions throughout the land that Sevruguin undertook during his lifetime in his wish to make an exhaustive photographic survey of Iran. Ultimately, the three brothers went to Tehran where, in 1883, they established a photographic studio located on Alaal-dawla Street (Firdawsi Avenue.) Antoin was the artistic heart of the business, while his brothers, especially Emanuel, did the managerial work.

In Tehran Sevruguin married Louise Gourgenian, an Iranian-Armenian and they had seven children - four boys (Sasha, Andr鬠Ivan, and Misha) and three girls (Olga I, Mary, and Olga II.) As the business prospered, Sevruguin's skill in photographic portraiture attracted clients from the elite and earned him a position as one of the official court photographers to Nasir al-din Shah. To keep himself up-to-date on new developments in photography, Sevruguin made yearly trips to Vienna and other European cities to buy cameras and chemically prepared glass plates.

A highlight in Sevruguin's career was an important commission from the German art historian Friedrich Sarre (1865-1945.) Sarre contracted Antoin and his brother Emanuel to organize a major expedition through southern and southwestern Iran, in order to photograph the Achaemenid (ca. 550-331 B.C.) and Sasanian (ca. A.D. 224-651) rock graves and monuments. Unrest among many of the southern tribes dissuaded Sarre from undertaking the dangerous expedition, and it was to Antoin's advantage that he had friendly contacts among the various tribal chieftains, many of whom were his clients. It is likely that Sarre used all of Sevruguin's photographs in, Iranische Felsreliefs (Berlin, 1910), published in collaboration with Ernst Herzfeld. Perhaps due to the contractual agreement, the book did not credit Sevruguin's name, leaving him deeply disappointed that his significant efforts from a complicated and dangerous mission had garnered him to public credit.

Recognition did come, however, at international photographic exhibitions, where Sevruguin received various prizes and medals, including those won in Brussels in 1897 and Paris in 1900. Awarded the Persian Imperial Order - the Lion and the Sun - by Nasir al-din Shah for his service to the royal house, Sevruguin was also conferred the title of khan (prince), and became known as "Antoin-Khan" in Tehran.

Art ruled Sevruguin's life and he was a voracious reader of history, poetry, and literature in Persian, Russian, French, and Armenian. He is described as friendly, lovable, and magnanimous and at festivities would readily recite by heart, in Persian, long passages from Firdawsi's, Shahnamah (Book of Kings.) His friends included courtiers, dervishes, tribal chieftains, intellectuals, and diplomats. As a painter, he also studied traditional Persian painting and admired French Impressionism and Rembrandt's works, working to capture light in his photographs the way Rembrandt did in his paintings.

Internal political tensions between constitutionalists and reactionaries led to civil unrest in Tehran in 1908. Next to Sevruguin's photographic studio lived Zahir al-dawla, the governor or Rasht, who was a staunch constitutionalist. Because of him, the entire street was plundered by soldiers of the shah, and Zahir al-dawla's house was bombed. The bombings and pillaging heavily damaged Sevruguin's collection of photographs. Of the more than 7,000 glass plates, only 2,000 could later be reassembled and restored. During the reign of Reza Shah Pahlavi, the family suffered a second financial blow. In efforts to modernize his country, the shah ordered the confiscation of the remaining 2,000 glass plates of Sevruguin's photograph collection which he believed represented "old-fashioned" Iran. This brought an end to the once prominent photographic enterprise.

In 1933, in his late nineties, Antoin Sevruguin died from a kidney infection. He is buried in the family tomb in Tehran.

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Scope and Content Note

Antoin Sevruguin (d. 1934) was an official photographer of the Imperial Court of Iran, whose commercial photography studio was one of the most successful in Tehran from the 1860s to the 1920s. His photographs document Iran, Iranian culture, Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, and Luristan during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives is the repository for 866 Sevruguin photographs. These photographs are found within two collections, the Myron Bement Smith Collection and Antoin Sevruguin Photographs.

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Arrangement of the Papers

This assembly of Sevruguin photographs from two different collections in the Archives is divided into two series according to the originating collection: 1. Myron Bement Smith Collection and 2. Antoin Sevruguin photographs. Series 1 contains modern prints from negatives and gelatin silver print found in the Myron Bement Smith Collection and series 2 contains eighteen unmounted albumen prints from Antoin Sevruguin Photographs.

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Restrictions

Restrictions on Access

Access is by appointment only, Monday through Thursday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Please contact the Archives to make an appointment.

Restrictions on Use

There are no restrictions on use.

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Related Material

Other collections housed in the archives documenting Islamic monuments include: the Ambassador Richard B. Parker Photographs of Islamic Monuments (please click here) , and the Lionel Bier Architectural Drawings.

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Selected Search Terms

Names:

Ahmad Nadim Qasmi, 1916-
Bisno, Jay A.
Muzaffar al-Din Shah, Shah of Iran, 1853-1907
Nasir al-Din Shah, Shah of Iran, 1831-1896
Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, 1878-1944
Sevruguin, Antoin, d. 1933
Smith, Myron Bement, 1897-1970
Zahir al-Dawlah, `Ali Khan Qajar, 1864-1924

Organizations:

Committee for Islamic Culture

Subjects:

Agricultural laborers
Archaeology - Iran
Architecture, Islamic
Armenians
Bahais
Bazaars (Markets)
Birds
Caravansaries
Catholics
Courts and courtiers
Culture - Iran
Dervishes
Ethnology - Iran
Executions - Iran
Hermaphroditism
Hookahs
Hunting
Iran
Iran - Kings and rulers
Iran History Qajar dynasty, 1794-1925
Isfahan
Iwans
Jews
Kurds
Minarets
Mosques
Palaces
Persepolis (Iran)
Photography of women
Rites and ceremonies
Shrines
Soldiers
Sports
Tehran (Iran)
Wrestling - Iran - History
Zoroastrians

Document Types:

Albumen prints
Photographs
Silver gelatin prints

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Administrative Information

Alternate Format

Microform of the Photographs of Antoin Sevruguin is available for purchase through IDC Publishers.

Preferred Citation

To cite images in Series 1, Myron Bement Smith Collection, please use:

Myron Bement Smith Collection. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Katharine Dennis Smith, 1973-1985. Photographer: Antoin Sevruguin, negative number [when appropriate.]

To cite images in Series 2, Antoin Sevruguin Photographs, please use:

Antoin Sevruguin Photographs. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Jay Bisno.

Provenance

The wife of Myron Bement Smith, Katharine Dennis Smith, donated her husband's papers to the Smithsonian Institution in 1972. The collection was housed in the National Museum of Natural History. Ms. Smith granted partial rights of the materials to the Institution in 1973 and full rights, interests, and title in 1985. The collection was transferred to the Freer Gallery in 1977.

Jay A. Bisno donated the eighteen unmounted albumen prints represented in the collection, Antoin Sevruguin Photographs in 1985. Mr. Bisno purchased the prints from a shop in the Old City of Jerusalem in 1969.

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Bibliography

Bohrer, F.N. (1999). Sevruguin and the Persian image: Photographs of Iran, 1870-1930. Washington, D.C.: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution and Seattle: University of Washington Press.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Series 1: Myron Bement Smith Collection
Series 1 is formed by the Antoin Sevruguin photographs found in the Myron Bement Smith Collection, also housed in the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Series 1 is divided into three subseries.
Biographical information
American Myron Bement Smith (1897-1970), born in Newark Valley, New York, had a forty year career as a classical archaeologist, architect, and art historian. After graduating from Yale University in 1926, he was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1927-1928 for the study of Italian medieval brickwork. A research fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies enabled him to spend four years (1933-1937) in Iran directing his own expedition for the study of Islamic architecture, in particular the Masjid-i D'Juma at Isfahan, and established his life-long devotion to West Asia.
In 1938, following his return from Iran, Smith began a 30 year association with the Library of Congress as Honorary Consultant. He played a prominent role in the establishment of the Near Eastern Section of the Library of Congress.
As early as 1929, Smith sounded out scholars and administrators regarding the feasibility of establishing a central depository for material dealing with historic architecture available to all scholars. After his return from Iran in 1937, he was concerned with the problem of finding a location where he could store and work with his large collection of photographs and negatives (900 from Italy and 11,000 from Iran), drawings, maps, and other forms of documentation. In 1938 the Library of Congress agreed to provide Smith with two rooms and facilities for making photographic prints, where he retained his accumulating collections until 1956.
In 1939 Smith drafted a program for an Archive for Islamic Culture and Art which the American Council of Learned Societies adopted in 1941.
According to the official minutes, the Committee for Islamic Culture purchased 696 glass plates of Antoin Sevruguin from the American Presbyterian Mission in Tehran during fiscal year 1951-1952 . (Official minutes of the Committee for Islamic Culture, 1952 November 17. Myron Bement Smith Collection. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Katharine Dennis Smith, 1973-1985) News of their sale by the mission apparently came through T. Cuyler Young, then serving on special appointment at the American Embassy in Tehran. According to record, Sevruguin's heiress gave these plates to the mission with instruction to sell them for the benefit of the mission. When Antoin Sevruguin retired about 1930, it was his daughters who continued to run the studio until at least 1937. (Letter, unsigned typescript, 1937 January 26, Katharine Dennis Smith to Mrs. [Richard T.] Merrick, Myron Bement Smith Collection] It was probably Sevruguin's daughter Mary who recovered some of the glass plate negatives, perhaps through the friendship between her and her husband, James Badui, and the crown prince who later became the last shah of Iran, Muhammad Reza Shah (reigned 1941-1979.)
Subseries 1.1 - Myron Bement Smith Collection - Modern prints from photonegatives
During the 1980s the Freer Gallery produced modern contact prints from Antoin Sevruguin photonegatives in the Myron Bement Smith Collection for reference purposes. In some cases, the size was altered and exterior edges of images were cropped in the resulting print. As the negatives were not in any recognizable original order, the archivist imposed a subject arrangement to enhance user accessibility.
Handwritten identifications recorded on scraps of paper were housed with nearly 300 photonegatives in this collection. Those identifications are transcribed in the following container listing as captions. The captions retain the original spelling on the original recording as closely as possible.
The collection contains 689 negatives, mostly gelatin dry plates, some collodian wet plates, and a few cut films. These measure from 9 x 11 cm. to 18 x 24 cm. and may exhibit structural damage in the form of broken or cracked supports. The Freer Gallery artificially assigned a negative number to each image in this series for identification purposes.
The materials in this subseries are arranged according to the following subject arrangement:
Subject arrangement:
Royalty – Courtiers and courts.
Royalty – Residences.
Royalty – Thrones, crowns, celestial globes.
Royalty – Carriages and horses.
Royalty – camps.
People – Foreign royalty, diplomatic and consular service.
People – Military – Officers and soldiers.
People – Portraits.
People – Religious.
People – Daily activities.
People – Sports.
People – Performing arts.
People – Rites and ceremonies.
People – Executions.
Birds
Architecture – Pre-Islamic.
Architecture – Qajar – Rock reliefs.
Architecture – Fortress and Tower of Silence.
Architecture – Bridges.
Architecture – City gates.
Architecture – Caravansarais.
Architecture – Buildings.
Architecture – Triumphal arches.
Architecture – Street scenes, parks and gardens.
Architecture – Mosques, shrines, and tombs.
Architecture – Yazd-i Khast.
Architecture – Townscapes and villages.
Landscapes.
Industrial.
Arts – Carpets.
Arts – Ceramics.
Arts – Figurines and incense burners.
Arts – Ivories.
Arts – Paintings.
Arts – Prints and drawings.
Subseries 1.1.1: Royalty - Shahs, [1870s - 1896]
Box Folder
Fath Ali Shah, [1870s - 1930s] 1 1
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Negative number 49.2 (742)
Caption: Fath Ali Shah
Note: See also Box 4, Folder 1
Subseries 1.1.2: Royalty - Shahs - Nasir al-din Shah, [1870s - 1896]
Box Folder
Mohammad Shah, [1870s-1930s] 1 1
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Negative number 49.4 (209)
Caption: Mohammad Shah
Nasir al-din Shah in front of the Peacock Throne, ca. 1880 1 2
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Negative number 31.1 (584)
Caption: Nasr-i Din Shah
Note: See also Box 1 (Sevruguin), Folder 1
Nasir al-din Shah standing outdoors, [1870s-1896] 1 2
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Negative number 51.8
Caption: None
Barber dyeing Nasir al-din Shah's Mustache, ca. 1890 1 2
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Negative number 47.11
Caption: Dentist of Nasir al-din Shah
Nasir al-din Shah examining decorative objects with his attendants in the Gulistan Palace, ca. 1890 1 2
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Negative number 51.5 (1151)
Caption: Nasr-i Din Shah
Note: Negative numbers 15.3 (Box 1 Folder 11), 54.5 (Box 1 Folder 11), 15.9 (Box 1 Folder 15), 17.6 (Box 1 Folder 11), 61.4 (Box 1 Folder 11), 3.6 (Box 1, Folder 2) also record events on the same day.
Nasir al-din Shah seated with back to mirror in Gulistan Palace, ca. 1890 1 2
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Negative number 3.6
Caption: None
Note: Negative numbers 15.3 (Box 1 Folder 11), 54.5 (Box 1 Folder 11), 15.9 (Box 1 Folder 15), 17.6 (Box 1 Folder 11), 61.4 (Box 1 Folder 11), and 51.5 (Box 1 Folder 2) record events on the same day.
Nasir al-din Shah, probably receiving report in Gulistan Palace, [1870s - 1896] 1 2
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Negative number 51.12
Caption: Nasr Din Shah and member of court
Note: Same room appears in negative 55.2 (Box 1 Folder 11) and same day depicted in negative 58.9 (Box 1 Folder 9.)
Nasir al-din Shah receiving report in Gulistan Palace, [1870s - 1896] 1 2
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Negative number 13.03 (1191)
Caption: Nasr Dinshah firman
Nasir al-din Shah, Kamran Mirza on right, Amin alsultan on left, [1870s - 1896] 1 2
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Negative number 51.6 (109?)
Caption: None
Nasir al-din Shah supervising a banquet for Ashpazan, [1870s - 1896] 1 2
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Negative number 17.2
Caption: None
Note: Same event depicted in negative numbers 60.10 (Box 1 Folder 10) and 57.5 (Box 1 Folder 10.)
Nasir al-din Shah and court, [1870s - 1896] 1 2
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Negative number 19.1
Caption: Nasr al Din Shah and court
Nasir al-din Shah and ministers, [1870s - 1896] 1 3
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Negative number 58.9 (1147)
Caption: Nasr Din Shah and ministers
Nasir al-din Shah in village, [1870s - 1896] 1 3
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Negative number 32.6 (637)
Caption: None
Nasir al-din Shah and court, [1870s - 1930s] 1 3
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Negative number 51.13
Caption: Nasr din Shah and court at Abshar.
Note: Same event pictured in negative 13.01 (Box 1 Folder 3) and 55.1 (Box 1 Folder 3.)
Nasir al-din Shah at Abshar-Shimran, [1870s - 1896] 1 3
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Negative number 13.01
Caption: Nasr Din Shah at Abshar-Shimran
Note: Probably the same event depicted in negatives 51.13 and 55.1 (Box 1 Folder 3.)
Nasir al-din Shah in his later years, being red to near Lar River, [1870s - 1896] 1 3
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Negative number 55.1
Caption: None
Note: Probably same trip depicted in negative numbers 51.13 and 13.01 (Box 1 Folder 3.)
Nasir al-din Shah, Malijak(?) holding a gun, [1870s - 1896] 1 3
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Negative number 42.8
Caption: Nasri Din hunting
Nasir al-din Shah and his eunuchs, with hand on head of Agha Muhammad Khan Khaja, [1870s - 1896] 1 3
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Negative number 51.2 (928)
Caption: Nasr din Shah and attendants
Nasir al-din Shah, his son to his right at statue of Nasr ud din Shah, [1870s - 1896] 1 3
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Negative number 48.3
Caption: Statue of Nasr ud din Shah
Nasir al-din Shah (under umbrella on black horse) with his cavalry, on expedition to Lar, [1870s - 1896] 1 3
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Negative number 14.10
Caption: None
Subseries 1.1.3: Royalty - Shahs - Nasir al din Shah - Family, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Grandfather of Nasir al-din Shah, 1870s - 1930s 1 4
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Negative number 51.16
Caption: Abbas Mirza
Note: Photograph of art work.
Nasir al-din Shah's mother, 1870s - 1930s 1 4
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Negative number 43.8
Caption: Mother of Nasr-i Din Shah
Nasir al-din Shah's daughter, Aghdas, 1870s - 1930s 1 4
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Negative number 47.12 (229)
Caption: Daughter of Nasr Din Shah
Kamran Mirza, Nasir al -din Shah's son, 1870s - 1930s 1 4
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Negative number 0.4 (113)
Caption: None
Subseries 1.1.4 - Royalty - Shahs - Muzaffar al-din Shah, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Muzaffar al-din Shah in his younger days, [1870s - 1930s] 1 5
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Negative number 51.7
Caption: None
Muzaffar al-din Shah after coronation, 1897 1 5
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Negative number 51.14 (1075)
Caption: None
Muzaffar al-din Shah, 1870s - 1930s 1 5
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Negative number 49.7 (235)
Caption: Muzaffari Din Shah
Muzaffar al-din Shah in Gulistan Palace, 1870s - 1930s 1 5
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Negative number 51.9
Caption: None
Muzaffar al-din Shah in maydan-i Mashgh, 1870s - 1930s 1 5
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Negative number 16.7
Caption: Nasr ed Din and court
Subseries 1.1.5: Royalty - Shahs - Muhammad Ali Shah Qajar, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Half-length portrait of Muhammad Ali Shah Qajar, [1870s - 1930s] 1 6
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Negative number 51.15
Caption: None
Prince Abu'lfath Mizar salar al-dawla, brother of Muhammad Ali Shah, [1870s - 1930s] 1 6
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Negative number 36.11 (69)
Caption: None
Salar al-dawla with guardsmen, [1870s - 1930s] 1 6
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Negative number 46.13 (774)
Caption: Sardar Asad (?) and his Baktiari guard
Subseries 1.1.6: Royalty - Shahs - Ahmad Shah Qajar (reigned 1909-1925), [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Ahmad Shah Qajar, approximately age 12, [1870s - 1930s] 1 7
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Negative number 44.8
Caption: None
Subseries 1.1.7: Royalty - Shahs - Reza Shah Pahlavi, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Reza Shah Pahlavi, portrayed while minister of War, [1921-1925?] 1 8
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Negative number 48.12
Caption: None
Reza Shah Pahlavi, [1870s - 1930s] 1 8
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Negative number 26.1
Caption: Reza Pahalvi and the Russian Ambassador
Reza Shah Pahlavi on a horse while Minister of War, [1921-1925?] 1 8
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Negative number 27.8
Caption: Riza on horse
Iranian ministers, [1870s - 1930s] 1 8
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Negative number 27.7
Caption: Commercial Treaty Iranian Ministers
Subseries 1.1.8: Royalty - Courtiers and courts, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Mirza Ibrahim Ghafari - "muawin al-dawla" (helper of the state), [1870s - 1930s] 1 9
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Negative number 53.5
Caption: Iranian Minister
Vazir of Nasir al-din Shah, [1870s - 1930s] 1 9
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Negative number 41.13 (763)
Caption: Vazir of Nasr Din Shah
Note: May have erroneously been identified as prime minister Mirza Taqi Kahn, the Amier-i-kabir.
Zahir al-dawla, [1870s - 1930s] 1 9
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Negative number 49.3 (675)
Caption: Zair-I Dowlah
Note: Zahir al-dawla, son-in-law and master of ceremonies of Nasir al-din Shah.
See also Box 4, Folder 1.
Mirza Yusuf Ashtiyani, the mustawfi al-mammalik, ca. 1880s 1 9
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Negative number 41.2
Caption: Mustofiyi Mamalik
Note: Copy of art work
See also Box 4, Folder 1.
Majd al-dawla, [1870s - 1930s] 1 9
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Negative number 26.14 (878)
Caption: Iranian Minister
Mushir al-dawla, [1870s - 1930s] 1 9
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Negative number 22.4
Caption: None.
Note: Mushir al-dawla, Husayn Khan (later sipahsalar)
Government minister, [1870s - 1930s] 1 9
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Negative number 52.2
Caption: Government minister
Court ministers, [1870s - 1896] 1 9
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Negative number 58.8 (246)
Caption: Ministers of court
Note: Nasir al-din Shah era. Amin al-sultan seated fourth from right.
Same day depicted in negative number 51.6 (Box 1 Folder 2.)
Court of Mohammad Shah, [1870s - 1896] 1 9
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Negative number 54.7
Caption: Court of Mohammad Shah
Note: Nasir al-din Shah era. Copy of photograph.
Court of Nasir al-din Shah, [1870s - 1896] 1 9
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Negative number 54.9 (1113)
Caption: Court of Nasr Din Shah
Note: Ceremony [New Year salam?]. Also depicted in negative numbers 15.2 (Box 1 Folder 9), 51.3 (Box 1 Folder 9), 51.10 (Box 1 Folder 11), and 51.4 (Box 1 Folder 11.)
Ceremony, [1870s - 1896] 1 9
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Negative number 15.2
Caption: None
Note: Man on right in turban and with medals is Zahir al-dawla, master of ceremony.
Same ceremony [New Year salam?] depicted in negative numberss 54.9 (Box 1 Folder 9); 51.3 (Box 1 Folder 9), 51.10 (Box 1 Folder 11) , and 51.4 (Box 1 Folder 11).
Ceremony, [1870s - 1930s] 1 10
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Negative number 51.3
Caption: None
Note: Same ceremony as 54.9 (Box 1 Folder 9), 15.2 (Box 1 Folder 9), 51.10 (Box 1 Folder 11), and 51.4 (Box 1 Folder 11.)
Procession of men in garden, [1870s - 1930s] 2 1
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Negative number 16.9
Caption: None
Ceremony, [1870s - 1930s] 1 10
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Negative number 24.9a (1131)
Caption: Outdoor ceremony
Banquet scene, [1870s - 1930s] 1 10
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Negative number 58.3 (1163)
Caption: Celebration in Gulestan Palace
Same even depicted in negative numbers 60.9 (Box 1 Folder 10) and 24.8 (Box 1 Folder 10.)
Banquet at Gulistan Palace, [1870s - 1930s] 1 10
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Negative number 60.9
Caption: None
Note: Same event depicted in negative numbers 58.3 (Box 1 Folder 10) and 24.8 (Box 1 Folder 10.)
Row of seated men in Gulistan Palace complex, [1870s - 1930s] 1 10
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Negative number 24.8 (1002)
Caption: None
Note: Same event depicted in negative numbers 60.9 (Box 1 Folder 10) and 58.3 (Box 1 Folder 10.)
Banquet, [1870s - 1930s] 1 10
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Negative number 24.7 (1121)
Caption: Men at banquet
Note: From right to left: Mirza Tahir, the mustawfi bashir al-mulk (the one who sees for the state); Ahmad Mirza, the abud al-dawla (the strong right arm of the state); Mohammad Taqi Mirza, the rukn al-dawla (supporter of the state); Abbas Mirza Malek Ara; Abd al-Samad Mirza, the izz al-dawla (glory of the state); Shahzada the omid al-dawla (pillar of the state.)
Table, [1870s - 1930s] 1 10
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Negative number 58.6
Caption: Loaded table
Men before banquet table, [1870s - 1930s] 1 10
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Negative number 16.8 (1029)
Caption: None
Ashpazan ceremony, [1870s - 1930s] 1 10
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Negative number 57.5 (999)
Caption: A Dinner Party
Note:Amin al-sultan can be seen at head of left row of seated men, looking into the camera.
Same event depicted in negatives 60.10 (Box 1 Folder 10) and 17.2 (Box 1 Folder 2.)
Aspazan ceremony banquet, [1870s - 1930s] 1 10
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Negative number 60.10
Caption: None
Note: Same event depicted in negative 57.5 (Box 1 Folder 10) and 17.2 (Box 1 Folder 2.)
Game, [1870s - 1896] 1 10
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Negative number 43.7 (433)
Caption: Game of Nasr ed din Shah
Note: Boy [Malijak?] posing with a stuffed leopard, an ibex, a deer, and a gazelle.
Subseries 1.1.9: Royalty - Residences - Gulistan Palace (Tehran), [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Interior of Gulistan Palace, audience hall, [1870s - 1930s] 1 11
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Negative number 57.6 (1098)
Caption: Gulistan Palace
Throne room of Gulistan Palace with Takhta tavus (Peacock Throne) at the Buyutat, [1870s - 1930s] 1 11
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Negative number 15.3
Caption: None
Note: Same day depicted in negative numbers 54.5 (Box 1 Folder 11), 17.6 (Box 1 Folder 11), 61.4 (Box 1 Folder 11), 15.9 (Box 1 Folder 15), 51.5 (Box 1 Folder 2), and 3.6 (Box 1 Folder 2.)
Throne room of Gulistan Palace, [1870s - 1930s] 1 11
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Negative numbers 54.5 (991)
Caption: Gulistan Palace
Note: See also negative 15.3 (Box 1 Folder 11), 15.9 (Box 1 Folder 15) , 51.5 (Box 1 Folder 2), 61.4 (Box 1 Folder 11), and 3.6 (Box 1 Folder 2.)
Throne room of Gulistan Palace, [1870s - 1930s] 1 11
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Negative number 17.6
Caption: None
Note: See also negative numbers 15.3 (Box 1 Folder 11), 54.5 (Box 1 Folder 11), 15.9 (Box 1 Folder 15), 51.5 (Box 1 Folder 2), 61.4 (Box 1 Folder 11), and 3.6 (Box 1 Folder 2.)
Throne room of Gulistan Palace, [1870s - 1930s] 1 11
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Negative number 61.4.
Caption: Gulistan Palace, reception room
Note: See also negative 15.3 (Box 1 Folder 11), 54.5 (Box 1 Folder 11), 15.9 (Box 1 Folder 15), 17.6 (Box 1 Folder 11), 51.5 (Box 1 Folder 2) , and 3.6 (Box 1 Folder 2.)
Salon and thrones at Gulistan Palace, [1870s - 1930s] 1 11
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Negative number 49.6 (798)
Caption: Salon and thrones at Gulistan Palace
Note: See also box 5, folder 11.
Gulistan Palace room interior, [1870s - 1930s] 1 11
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Negative number 55.2 (1040)
Caption: Gulistan Palace
Note: Same room depicted in negative 51.12 (Box 1 Folder 2.)
Gulistan Palace, [1870s - 1930s] 1 11
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Negative number 51.10 (1011)
Caption: Gulestan, opposite side of reception marble throne
Note:Same event depicted in negative numbers 51.4 (Box 1 Folder 9), 28.1 (Box 1 Folder 11), 54.9 (Box 1 Folder 9), 15.2 (Box 1 Folder 9), and 51.3 (Box 1 Folder 9.)
Reception at Gulistan Palace, [1870s - 1930s] 1 11
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Negative number 51.4
Caption: None
Note: Same event depicted in negative numbers 51.10 (Box 1 Folder 11), 15.2 (Box 1 Folder 9), 54.9 (Box 1 Folder 9), 28.1 (Box 1 Folder 11), and 51.3 (Box 1 Folder 9.)
Reception at Gulistan Palace, [1870s - 1930s] 1 11
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Negative number 28.1 (53)
Caption: Reception at Gulestan
Note: Same event depicted in negative numbers 51.10 (Box 1 Folder 11), 15.2 (Box 1 Folder 9), 54.9 (Box 1 Folder 9), 51.4 (Box 1 Folder 11), and 51.3 (Box 1 Folder 9.)
Imarat-i badgir (Tower of the Winds), [1870s - 1930s] 1 11
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Negative number 29.11 (253)
Caption: None
Note: Part of the Gulistan Palace complex.
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 11
Part of Gulistan Palace complex, [1870s - 1930s] 1 11
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Negative number 28.2 (122)
Caption: Dari Ahmasi
Note: See also box 5, folder 11.
Portion of Gulistan Palace complex, [1870s - 1930s]. 1 11
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Negative number 56.4
Caption: None
Gulistan Palace [?], [1870s - 1930s] 1 11
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Negative number 35.6
Caption: Bagh-i Atabeg
Subseries 1.1.10: Royalty - Residences - Identified, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Shahristanak, Nasir al-din Shah's royal summer villa noth of Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 1 12
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Negative number 25.1
Caption: None
Note: Rear view seen from above.
Shahristanak, [1870s - 1930s] 1 12
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Negative number 18.4 (1218)
Caption: None
Note: View from above.
Shahristanak, [1870s - 1930s] 1 12
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Negative number 54.8
Caption: Shimran, royal summer house
Note: Front view.
Nasir al-din Shah's royal pavilion, [1870s - 1930s] 1 12
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Negative number 47.8
Caption: Royal villa at Cherestanek, north of Tehran
Note: Called the tower (built 1848), at the port of Anzali (later called Bandar Pahlavi) in Gilan overlooking the Caspian Sea.
Baghi-i firdaws, [1870s - 1930s] 1 12
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Negative number 58.2
Caption: Shimran, Bagh-i Ferdous
Nasir al-din Shah's royal summer villa in north Tehran (Shimran) and residence of the Shah's cousin.
Note: See also negative number 20.184 box 3 folder 6.
Bagh-i Ferdows underground room [1870s - 1930s] 1 12
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Negative number 39.2b (632)
Caption: Bagh-i Ferdows underground room
Baghi Shah in Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 1 12
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Negative number 44.2 (446)
Caption: Baghi Shah in Tehran
Wrought iron bridge and equestrian statue of Baghi Shah, [1870s - 1930s] 1 12
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Negative number 46.11 (291)
Caption:Wrought iron bridge and equestrian statue of Baghi Shah
Atabak's (Amin al-sultan) residence, [1870s - 1930s] 1 12
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Negative number 42.10
Caption: Royal summer house in Shimran
Royal summer house, [1870s - 1930s] 1 12
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Negative number 54.6
Caption: Royal summer house, Shimran
Huzkhana, Saltanatabad, [1870s - 1930s] 2 13
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Negative number 48.11
Caption: Bagh-i Ferdous above Tajrish
Note: Nasir al-din Shah's royal summer villa north of Tehran. Built by 1882.
Saltanatabad, [1870s - 1930s] 1 13
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Negative number 46.7
Caption: Saltanatabad
Abdarkhana and horloge of Saltanatabad, [1870s - 1930s] 1 13
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Negative number 23.6 (1127)
Caption: None
Ishratabad Palace near Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 1 13
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Negative number 60.8
Caption: None
"Forty Columns" Chihil Sutun Palace at Isfahan, [1870s - 1930s] 1 13
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Negative number 28.4
Caption: None
Note: Exterior view. Completed in 1647 for Shah Abbas II.
View from talar, [1870s - 1930s] 1 13
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Negative number 35.5 (899)
Caption: Cihil Sutun Palace, Isfahan
Ayinakhana (Hall of Mirrors), [1870s - 1930s] 1 13
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Negative number 29.12 (182)
Caption: Cihil Sutun
Note: Rear view of building. See also negative 40.6 (Box 1 Folder 13).
Ayinakhana (Hall of Mirrors), [1870s - 1930s] 1 13
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Negative number 40.6 (182)
Caption: Cihil Sutun Palace, Isfahan
Note: Rear view of building.
See also negative number 29.12 (Box 1 Folder 13.)
Subseries 1.1.11: Royalty - Residences - Unidentified, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Palace villa, [1870s - 1930s] 1 14
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Negative number 22.5
Caption: None
Villa and water fountain, [1870s - 1930s] 1 14
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Negative number 56.9
Caption: None
View from villa, looking towards water fountain, [1870s - 1930s] 1 14
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Negative number 19.9
Caption: None
Note: Same villa depicted in negative 56.9.
Subseries 1.1.12: Royalty - Thrones, crowns, celestial globes, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Takhta tavus (Peacock Throne) in Gulistan Palace, [1870s - 1930s] 1 15
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Negative number 35.11 (303)
Caption: None
Takhta tavus (Peacock Throne) in Gulistan Palace, [1870s - 1930s] 1 15
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Negative number 37.10 (637)
Caption: Peacock Throne
Takhta tavus (Peacock Throne) in Gulistan Palace, [1870s - 1930s] 1 15
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Negative number 15.9 (943)
Caption: None
Note: Negative numbers 15.3 (Box 1 Folder 11), 54.5 (Box 1 Folder 11), 17.6 (Box 1 Folder 11), 3.6 (Box 1 Folder 2), and 57.5 (Box 1 Folder 10) record events on the same day.
Nadiri throne in Gulistan Palace, [1870s - 1930s] 1 15
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Negative number 33.8 (258)
Caption: Summer Residence
Headpiece worn by the Shah at Nawruz, [1870s - 1930s] 1 15
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Negative number 49.1 (268)
Caption: Taq-i Kujani
Jewel encrusted globe [celestial?], [1870s - 1930s] 1 15
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Negative number 51.11
Caption: None
Subseries 1.1.13: Royalty - Carriages and horses, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Horse and driver with an open carriage, [1870s - 1930s] 1 16
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Negative number 20.03
Caption: Droshka
Men and horses pulling a carriage, [1870s - 1930s] 1 16
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Negative number 50.6 (982)
Caption: None
Men standing before a carriage, [1870s - 1930s] 1 16
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Negative number 61.7
Caption: Landau of Nasr Din Shah
Horse and attendants [royal horse?], [1870s - 1930s] 1 16
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Negative number 59.5
Caption: None
Subseries 1.1.14: Royalty - Camps, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Royal camp in valley, [1870s - 1930s] 1 17
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Negative number 15.4
Caption: None
Note: Distant view
Hunting camp [?], in Lar Valley near Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 1 17
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Negative number 50.4 (1209)
Caption: Abi Garm of Damavand
Note: Distant view.
Royal encampment, [1870s - 1930s] 1 17
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Negative number 14.11
Caption: Camp
Note: Distant view.
Camp in valley, [1870s - 1930s] 1 17
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Negative number 54.10 (958)
Caption: None
Note: Distant view.
Royal encampment, [1870s - 1930s] 1 17
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Negative number 19.3 [1091?]
Caption: None
Note: Distant view
Royal encampment, [1870s - 1930s] 1 17
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Negative number 32.8 (635)
Caption: None
Note: Distant view.
Camp near stream, [1870s - 1930s] 1 17
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Negative number 16.3 (966)
Caption: None
Camp with blank tent and elephant, [1870s - 1930s] 1 17
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Negative number 53.4
Caption: Elephant
Note: Royal presence of elephant suggests proximity to Tehran, possible dushan tappa, one of Muzaffar al-din Shah's favorite sites outside Tehran.
Outdoor gathering [for horse racing?] near large royal tent at dushan tappa, [1870s - 1930s] 1 17
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Negative number 19.2
Caption: Nasr al Din Shah and court
Kadkhuda [village chief], [1870s - 1930s] 1 17
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Negative number 23.3
Caption: Kadkhoda on donkey
Subseries 1.1.15: People - Foreign royalty, diplomatic and consular service, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
King of Bukhara, [1870s - 1930s] 1 18
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Negative number 20.238
Caption: King of Bukhara
Son of king of Bahrain, [1870s - 1930s] 1 18
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Negative number 54.12
Caption: Son of a King of Bahrain
Group portrait, ca. 1909 1 18
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Negative number 43.2
Caption: Grand Duke...Brother of the Czar
Note: Man wearing hat, standing fourth from the right in the second row is Prince Firouz. Mirza Firouz (Nusrat al-dawla), Minister of Foreign Affairs. The person standing in between the Grand Duke and the man with a boater hat and glasses is Hishmat al-dawla. Photo taken in Tabriz.
Turkmen representatives at maydan-i Mashgh, [1870s - 1930s] 1 18
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Negative number 24.6 (1173)
Caption: None
Celebration at Turkish embassy, [1870s - 1930s] 1 18
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Negative number 48.14
Caption: Turkish embassy celebration
Shumiatsky commercial treaty, [1870s - 1930s] 1 18
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Negative number 27.6
Caption: Shumiatsky commercial treaty
Russian exposition, [1870s - 1930s] 1 18
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Negative number 26.13
Caption: Russian exposition
Third from right in front row is Moustaffi al-mamalik; fourth from right in front row is Mushir dawla.
May Day at Russian Embassy in Tehran, 1926 or 1927 1 18
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Negative number 31.6
Caption: Celebration of May Day at Russian Embassy in Tehran in 1926 or 1927
Note: Man with beard in front row is droshka river of Czarist ambassador. Second to the right of man with beard is the director of the Russian Bank. The third is the interpreter or clerk. The fourth is ambassador Yiuiienev.
Subseries 1.1.16: People - Military - Officers and soldiers, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Portrait of seated officer, British medal near throat, [1870s - 1930s] 1 19
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Negative number 19.6 (790)
Caption: None
Portrait of standing officer, [1870s - 1930s] 1 19
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Negative number 0.9
Caption: None
Portrait of two men in uniform, [1870s - 1930s] 1 19
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Negative number 58.4
Caption: Army Officers
Soldiers standing behind barbed wire, [1870s - 1930s] 1 19
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Negative number 1.19
Caption: None
Note: Person second from the left identified as Hussn al-dawla [Shanghai..?]
Officers of the Cossack Brigade, [1870s - 1930s] 1 19
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Negative number 27.2 (347)
Caption: Group of officers of former dynasty
Regiment [?], [1870s - 1930s] 1 19
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Negative number 54.2
Caption: Soldiers or police
Note: Possibly a regiment assigned to Zill al-sultan.
Regiment, [1870s - 1930s] 1 19
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Negative number 41.15 (699)
Caption: None
Note: Possibly a regiment assigned to Zill al-sultan.
Zanburak-chi regiment, [1870s - 1930s] 1 19
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Negative number 42.1 (229)
Caption: Camel Corps of Iranian Army
Note: At the mayan-i Mashgh, just north of the Square of Cannons (maydan-i tupkhana).
Shah's escort regiment in front of Mt. Damavand, overlooking Dashta Lar, [1870s - 1930s] 1 19
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Negative number 52.11 (909)
Caption: Maneuvers-Shimran
Cossacks at maydan-i Mashgh, [1870s - 1930s] 1 20
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Negative number 22.3 (963)
Caption: None
Note: Possibly the same day depicted in negative 16.6 (Box 1 Folder 20.)
Cossacks at maydan-i Mashgh, [1870s - 1930s] 1 20
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Negative number 16.6
Caption: None.
Note: Facing east with mountains in background. Possibly same day depicted as in negative 22.3.
Note: Possibly the same day depicted in negative 22.3 (Box 1 Folder 20.)
Military ceremony, [1870s - 1930s] 1 20
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Negative number 23.8 (996)
Caption: None
Note: Same event depicted in negative 15.5 (Box 1 Folder 20.)
[Abdul-Hosayn Farman-farma (minister of Defense)?] on horseback in maydan-i Mashgh, [1870s - 1930s] 1 20
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Negative number 15.5
Caption: None
Note: Same event as negative number 23.8 (Box 1 Folder 20.)
Soldiers standing before a mosque, [1870s - 1930s] 1 20
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Negative number 2.06
Caption: None
Soldiers along a tree-lined street in Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 1 20
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Negative number 56.1
Caption: None
Subseries 1.1.17: People - Portraits - Men - Identified, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Adib, [1870s - 1930s] 1 21
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Negative number 46.1
Caption: Adib - a well known writer, now 20 years dead
Kamal al-Mulk, Muhammad Ghaffari (artist), [1870s - 1930s] 1 21
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Negative number 54.11
Caption: Kamal ul Mulk
Khizil, [1870s - 1930s] 1 21
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Negative number 60.12
Caption: None
Note: Copy of a photograph.
Staff of Imperial Bank of Iran, [1870s - 1930s] 1 21
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Negative number 30.9
Caption: Staff of Imperial Bank of Iran
Subseries 1.1.18: People - Portraits - Men - Unidentified, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Western man, [1870s - 1930s] 1 22
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Negative number 51.1
Caption: None
Note: Studio portrait of a Western man in costume
[Western?] man in costume, seated, [1870s - 1930s] 1 22
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Negative number 0.8
Caption: None
Portrait of a seated man [Bakhtiari?], [1870s - 1930s] 1 22
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Negative number 18.5
Caption: None.
Portrait of a bearded man, [1870s - 1930s] 1 22
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Negative number 1.8a
Caption: None
Portrait of a bearded man, [1870s - 1930s] 1 22
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Negative number 1.8b
Caption: None
Note: Copy of a photograph.
Three men, [1870s - 1930s] 1 22
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Negative number 2.08
Caption: None
Note: Copy of a photograph.
Group portrait, [1870s - 1930s] 1 22
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Negative number 2.09
Caption: None
Group portrait at bazaar, [1870s - 1930s] 1 22
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Negative number 37.13 (397)
Caption: None
Three men with a stag, [1870s - 1930s] 1 22
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Negative number 14.3
Caption: None
Campsite, [1870s - 1930s] 1 22
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Negative number 56.11 (1076)
Caption: None
Note: Group portrait at a formal ceremony with some form of transaction taking place (man in center has paper and pen and standing men are carrying gifts.) Amin al-dawla is at center with white shawl around neck.
Group of men standing near motor car, [1870s - 1930s] 1 22
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Negative number 23.4
Caption: None
Subseries 1.1.19: Portraits - Hermaphrodite - Unidentified, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Hermaphrodite, [1870s - 1930s] 1 23
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Negative number 20.04 (926)
Caption: Middle Sex
Subseries 1.1.20: Portraits - Women - Unidentified, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Western woman posed in chadur, [1870s - 1930s] 1 24
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Negative number 18.2
Caption: woman with chadur pitchah
Note: See also negative number 61.10 (Box 1 Folder 24.)
Western woman in studio posed with chadur and hookah, [1870s - 1930s] 1 24
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Negative number 61.10
Caption: Persian woman with Galeon
Note: See also negative number 18.2 (Box 1 Folder 24.)
Studio portrait of a woman in European dress, [1870s - 1930s] 1 24
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Negative number 32.5
Caption: None
Seated, veiled woman with pearls, [1870s - 1930s] 1 24
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Negative number 2.07
Caption: None
Half-length portrait of a veiled woman, [1870s - 1930s] 1 24
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Negative number 2.05
Caption: None
Veiled Persian woman standing in a courtyard, [1870s - 1930s] 1 24
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Negative number 26.11 (143)
Caption: None
Seated Persian girl in ballet costume, [1870s - 1930s] 1 24
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Negative number 21.4
Caption: Persian girl
Note: Copy of a photograph
Persian woman, [1870s - 1930s] 1 24
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Negative number 42.4 (707)
Caption: Persian woman
Two Persian women, [1870s - 1930s] 1 24
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Negative number 53.3
Caption: Two Persian women
Three Persian women, [1870s - 1930s] 1 24
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Negative number 43.10 (143)
Caption: Persian women under a Kursi
Note: See also negative number 30.3.
Two women, [1870s - 1930s] 1 24
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Negative number 30.3 (865)
Caption: Persian Kursi
Note: See also negative number 43.10.
Two women, [1870s - 1930s] 1 24
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Negative number 13.438
Caption: Under a Kursi
Three females, [1870s - 1930s] 1 24
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Negative number 52.4c (95?)
Caption: Moslem women
Subseries 1.1.21: Portraits - Groups (men and women) - identified, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Amuz Mirza and sons, [1870s - 1930s] 1 25
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Negative number 58.1
Caption: Amuz Mirza and his sons
Sevruguin family, [1870s - 1930s] 1 25
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Negative number 24.9b
Caption: Sevruguin family
Note: Antoin Sevruguin (seated at left) with a portion of his extended family, father-in-law, two brothers (?), two daughters, and his wife, Louise.
Sevruguin family, [1870s - 1930s] 1 25
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Negative number 1.20
Caption: None
Subseries 1.1.22: Portraits - Groups (men and women) - Unidentified, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Family (?) Portrait, [1870s - 1930s] 1 26
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Negative number 21.7
Caption: Note weave of binding midriff of man at left...charioteer, (a Greco-Roman bronze)
Group portrait of hospital staff and patients, [1870s - 1930s] 1 26
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Negative number 18.6
Caption: None
Subseries 1.1.23: Portraits - Armenians, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Armenian woman, [1870s - 1930s] 1 27
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Negative number 46.15 (334)
Caption: Armenian girl and costume
Note: See also Box 4 Folder 10.
Nestorian Christian family, [1870s - 1930s] 1 27
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Negative number 36.14 (359)
Caption: Armenians from Salmas
Group portrait of students and faculty, [1870s - 1930s] 1 27
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Negative number 43.1
Caption: Armenian school
Subseries 1.1.24: Portraits - Bakhtiari, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Studio portrait of man, [1870s - 1930s] 1 28
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Negative number 24.11
Caption: Bakhtiar Sardar Zafar
Subseries 1.1.25: Portraits - Kurds, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Kurdish [or Armenian?] woman in elaborate costume, [1870s - 1930s] 1 29
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Negative number 46.12 (442)
Caption: Kurdish costume
Note: See also Box 4 Folder 12.
Woman, [1870s - 1930s] 1 29
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Negative number 37.6 (473)
Caption: Kurdish woman
Portrait of a [Kurdish family?], [1870s - 1930s] 1 29
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Negative number 15.6
Caption: Ali Zllahis
Note: Boy's hat.
Kurdish chiefs, [1870s - 1930s] 1 29
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Negative number 52.4a
Caption: Kurdish Chiefs
Subseries 1.1.26: Portraits - Lurs, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Man, [1870s - 1930s] 1 30
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Negative number 57.3
Caption: A Lur
Subseries 1.1.27: Portraits - Qashqai, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Man, [1870s - 1930s] 1 31
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Negative number 61.3
Caption: A Gashgai
Subseries 1.1.28: People - Religious - Mullahs, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Mullah, ca. 1900 1 32
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Negative number 46.17
Caption: Mullah mudaris
Note: Depicted was most powerful member of clergy in parliament ca. 1900. Black turban denotes depicted is of the Shiite faith and a direct descent of Imam Husayn.
Group of Mullahs, [1894] 1 32
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Negative number 0.5
Caption: Mullahs about to eat
Note: A group of ulema (Muslim scholars and clerics) gathered at Malijak's house for his wedding reception. Black turbans identify seyyyids, direct descendents of one of the Imams.
Group portrait of mullahs, [1870s - 1930s] 1 32
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Negative number 56.3
Caption: None
Group portrait of mullahs, [1870s - 1930s] 1 32
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Negative number 23.13
Caption: Mullahs on strike
Group portrait of mullahs, [1870s - 1930s] 1 32
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Negative number 24.2
Caption: Mullahs taking bast
Subseries 1.1.29: People - Religious - Dervishes, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Dervish or cleric [?], [1870s - 1930s] 1 33
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Negative number 56.2 (151)
Caption: Dervish
Note: Copy of a photograph.
Note: See also Box 4 Folder 8.
Dervish, [1870s - 1930s] 1 33
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Negative number 1.4
Caption: A Darvish
Portrait of a seated Dervish, [1870s - 1930s] 1 33
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Negative number 28.7 (7)
Caption: Dervish
Note: See also Box 1 (Sevruguin) Folder 6.
Dervish, [1870s - 1930s] 1 33
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Negative number 46.8 (490)
Caption: Dervish headdress
Dervishes, [1870s - 1930s] 1 33
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Negative number 39.1 (870)
Caption: Negro Dervishes
Subseries 1.1.30: Religious - Bahais, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Bahais, [1870s - 1930s] 1 34
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Negative number 47.7
Caption: Group of Bahais
Note: Top row, left to right: two unidentified men, Elizabeth H. Stewart, Abdu'l-Baha holding a picture of his father Baha'ullah (founder of the Bahai faith), Haji Ghulam Riday-i-Isfahani (Amin-i-Amin). Bottom row, left to right: Mulla Bahram Akhtar Khavari, Dr. Susan I. Moody, unidentified boy, Siyyid Assadu'llah-i-Qumi (Mirza Musa Assadu'llah Qumi), and unidentified man.
Subseries 1.1.31: Religious - Catholics, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Group portrait of students and faculty of the Jean d'Arc School, Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 1 35
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Negative number 41.5
Caption: Jean d'Arc School
Group portrait of students and faculty of the Jean d'Arc School, Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 1 35
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Negative number 41.9
Caption: None
Group portrait of students and faculty of the Jean d'Arc School, Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 1 35
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Negative number 41.10
Caption: Jean d'Arc School
Group portrait of students and faculty of the Jean d'Arc School, Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 1 35
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Negative number 41.11
Caption: Jean d'Arc School.
Group portrait of students at Jean d'Arc School, [1870s - 1930s] 1 35
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Negative number 58.5
Caption: Jean d'Arc School
Note: Shot from a distance outside of the school.
Group portrait of students at Jean d'Arc School, Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 1 35
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Negative number 20.232
Caption: Jean d'Arc School
Note: Shot from a distance outside the school.
Subseries 1.1.32: Religious - Jews, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Rabbi, [1870s - 1930s] 1 36
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Negative number 37.11
Caption: A Jewish rabbi
Subseries 1.1.33: Religious - Zoroastrians, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Woman in costume, [1870s - 1930s] 1 37
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Negative number 37.4
Caption: Zoroastrian costume
Nomad women, [1870s - 1930s] 1 37
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Negative number 23.9 (919)
Caption: Zoroastrian women
Group of women, [1870s - 1930s] 1 37
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Negative number 42.3 (16)
Caption: A Zoroastrian Bride
Family studio portrait, [1870s - 1930s] 1 37
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Negative number 27.11
Caption: Zoroastrian family
Family portrait, [1870s - 1930s] 1 37
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Negative number 53.7
Caption: Zoroastrian family
Family portrait, [1870s - 1930s] 1 37
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Negative number 21.6
Caption: Zoroastrian family
Family portrait, [1870s - 1930s] 1 37
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Negative number 52.5
Caption: Zoroastrian family
Subseries 1.1.34: People - Religious - Religious rites and ceremonies, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Prayer, [1870s - 1930s] 1 38
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Negative number 53.1
Caption: Prayers at masjid-i-Shah
Meeting during Muharram, [1870s - 1930s] 1 38
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Negative number 50.5
Caption: Meeting in Masjid-i-Shah
Note: Month of Muharram, possibly Ashura procession. Depicted in the procession behind the flags are children on mules and elders on horses. Possibly a re-enactment of Ashura
Ashura reenactment procession, [1870s - 1930s] 1 38
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Negative number 21.3 (1156)
Caption: None
Note: Children on horses, figures from Ashura reenactment procession.
[Passion play?], [1870s - 1930s] 1 38
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Negative number 14.1
Caption: None
Note: Possibly a Muharram passion play. The female character covered in a veil at center of tent and holding a paper is a male playing a female role. The "western" male to the right may be "farangi" a Christian figure in the story. In the background, crowds peer over the wall and scarves hang from the tent.
Possibly the same event depicted in negative number 52.8 (Box 1 Folder 38.)
Crowd, [1870s - 1930s] 1 38
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Negative number 52.8
Caption: Persian crowd in a tent
Note: Possibly the same Nuharram passion play depicted in negative umber 14.1 (Box 1 Folder 38.)
Ashura, [1870s - 1930s] 1 38
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Negative number 47.10
Caption: Ashura celebration
Note: 10th day of the month of Muharram. Men in procession of chanting and flagellation.
Ashura, [1870s - 1930s] 1 38
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Negative number 1.1
Caption: Ashura
Note: Month of Muharram, Ashura or Ta'ziya drama. Depicts men performing a ritual called ghama-zani, a form of self flagellation where shaven head is hit with the flat side of sword resulting in the formation of blood blisters.
Ashura performing ghama-zani, [1870s - 1930s] 1 38
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Negative number 53.2
Caption: A headcutter
Note: Ghama-zani is a form of self flagellation where shaven head is hit with the flat side of sword resulting in the formation of blood blisters.
Subseries 1.1.35: People - Daily activities - Agricultural laborers, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Threshing, [1870s - 1930s] 1 39
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Negative number 1.5a
Caption: None
Threshing, [1870s - 1930s] 1 39
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Negative number 2.010
Caption: None
Plowing, [1870s - 1930s] 1 39
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Negative number 46.6
Caption: Plowing
Women milking cow, [1870s - 1930s] 1 39
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Negative number 42.6a
Caption: Migrants - milking cow
Shepherd, [1870s - 1930s] 1 39
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Negative number 32.4 (506)
Caption: None
Note: See also Box 4 Folder 3.
Shepherds and sheep, [1870s - 1930s] 1 39
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Negative number 1.17
Caption: None
Shepherd and sheep, [1870s - 1930s] 1 39
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Negative number 1.18
Caption: None
Man on donkey with birds, [1870s - 1930s] 1 39
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Negative number 28.6 (41)
Caption: Poultry
Man with donkey and chickens, [1870s - 1930s] 1 39
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Negative number 46.16 (257)
Caption: Chicken seller
Note: See also negative number 57.8 (Box 1 Folder 39.)
Man with donkey and chickens, [1870s - 1930s] 1 39
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Negative number 57.8
Caption: Poultry
Note: Copy of a photograph.
See also negative 46.16 (Box 1 Folder 39.)
Subseries 1.1.36: People - Daily activities - Travelers, migrants, and camps, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Man on donkey, [1870s - 1930s] 1 40
View Image
Negative number 1.15
Caption: Poultry
Note: Same stretch of road depicted in negative 1.16 (Box 1 Folder 40), 1.13 (Box 1 Folder 40), and 2.012 (Box 1 Folder 40.)
Men and donkeys in landscape, [1870s - 1930s] 1 40
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Negative number 1.16
Caption: None
Note: Same stretch of road depicted in negative numbers 1.13 (Box 1 Folder 40), 1.15 (Box 1 Folder 40), and 2.012 (Box 1 Folder 40.)
Children and adults on donkeys, [1870s - 1930s] 1 40
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Negative number 1.13
Caption: None
Note: Same stretch of road depicted in negative numbers 2.012 (Box 1 Folder 40), 1.15 (Box 1 Folder 40), and 1.16 (Box 1 Folder 40.)
People on donkeys, [1870s - 1930s] 1 40
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Negative number 2.012
Caption: None
Note: Same stretch of road depicted in negative 1.15 , 1.16, and 1.13.
People on donkeys, [1870s - 1930s] 1 40
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Negative number 1.14
Caption: None
Group of migrants, [1870s - 1930s] 1 40
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Negative number 57.2
Caption: Migrants
Travelers in landscape, [1870s - 1930s] 1 40
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Negative number 53.6
Caption: Ali Maqsud Beg
Women in European attire with caravan escort. Possibly the Dashta-Lar region, Mount Damavand visible, [1870s - 1930s] 1 40
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Negative number 2.04
Caption: None
Men at a campsite, [1870s - 1930s] 1 40
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Negative number 16.4
Caption: None
Note: Man in European attire on right [Sevruguin?]
Men at a campsite, [1870s - 1930s] 1 40
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Negative number 15.10.
Caption: None
Subseries 1.1.37: People - Daily activities - Boats and boating, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Arab sailors in circular canoes on the Karun River in southwest Iran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 1
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Negative number 44.3 (660)
Caption: Boats of Tigris
Note: See also negative number 60.7 (Box 2 Folder 1.)
Circular canoes, [1870s - 1930s] 2 1
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Negative number 60.7
Caption: None
Note: Arab sailors in circular canoes used to transport passengers and animals across the Karun River.
See also negative number 44.3 (Box 2 Folder 1.)
Port of Bandar Anzali, Gilan, [1870s - 1930s] 2 1
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Negative number 25.2
Caption: None
Seascape with men in boats, [1870s - 1930s] 2 1
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Negative number 3.2 (993)
Caption: None
Subseries 1.1.38: People - Daily activities - Craft occupations, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Girls weaving a large carpet, [1870s - 1930s] 2 2
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Negative number 37.5 (472)
Caption: None
Note: See also Box 4 Folder 3.
Silk weaving, [1870s - 1930s] 2 2
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Negative number 37.9 (592)
Caption: Silk weaving
Silk worms, [1870s - 1930s] 2 2
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Negative number 44.13 (659)
Caption: Silk Worms
Men painting tiles, [1870s - 1930s] 2 2
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Negative number 34.7 (590)
Caption: Making tiles (painting)
Subseries 1.1.39 - People - Daily activities - Street vendors and market scenes, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Bazarr in mosque courtyard, [1870s - 1930s] 2 3
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Negative number 14.2
Caption: None
Man selling medicines or possibly sugar beets, [1870s - 1930s] 2 3
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Negative number 28.5 (783)
Caption: Selling medicines
Men selling clothes in bazaar, [1870s - 1930s] 2 3
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Negative number 24.10 (1197)
Caption: None
Pottery shop, [1870s - 1930s] 2 3
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Negative number 1.3
Caption: Pottery Shop
Sugar shop in Rasht, [1870s - 1930s] 2 3
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Negative number 61.6
Caption: Shop in Resht
Bazaar in Rasht, [1870s - 1930s] 2 3
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Negative number 30.4
Caption: Bazaar
Market, food vendors, [1870s - 1930s] 2 3
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Negative number 60.11 (1247)
Caption: None
Grocer, [1870s - 1930s] 2 3
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Negative number 37.8 (299)
Caption: Baggali [green grocer?]
Grocer selling food at market, [1870s - 1930s] 2 3
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Negative number 43.3 (14)
Caption: None
Man holding a snake, [1870s - 1930s] 2 3
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Negative number 61.2
Caption: None
Man, woman, and infant, [1870s - 1930s] 2 3
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Negative number 26.7.
Caption: Two beggars
Man, rear view, [1870s - 1930s] 2 3
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Negative number 57.1 (921)
Caption: A beggar
Subseries 1.1.40: People - Daily activities - Sports, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Studio portrait of three traditional Persian wrestlers, [1870s - 1930s] 2 4
View Image
Negative number 26.6 (237)
Caption: Wrestlers
Note: The zurkahana (house of strength.) Man pictured at rear is holding a kabbadeh (a weight training instrument.)
Studio portrait of two posed wrestlers, [1870s - 1930s] 2 4
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Negative number 21.1
Caption: Wrestlers
Group of athletes and small crowd of spectators, [1870s - 1930s] 2 4
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Negative number 37.3 (898)
Caption: Persian athletes
Four wrestlers and small crowd of spectators, [1870s - 1930s] 2 4
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Negative number 44.7 (793)
Caption: Persian wrestlers
Zurkhana wrestlers warming up and large crown of spectators, Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 4
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Negative number 23.2
Caption: Athletic exhibition
Note: Possibly same event depicted in negative numbers 0.6 (Box 2 Folder 4) and 50.7 (Box 2 Folder 4.)
Zurkahana wrestlers' public performance and large crowd of spectators, [1870s - 1930s] 2 4
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Negative number 0.6
Caption: None
Note: Possibly same event depicted in negative numbers 23.2 (Box 2 Folder 4) and 50.7 (Box 2 Folder 4.)
Performance by clowns during intermission of zurkhana wrestling performance and large crowd of spectators, [1870s - 1930s] 2 4
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Negative number 50.7
Caption: None
Note: Possibly same event depicted in negative numbers 23.2 (Box 2 Folder 4) and 0.6 (Box 2 Folder 4.)
Large crowd of spectators at annual horse race, [1870s - 1930s] 2 4
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Negative number 14.12 (1228)
Caption: None
Men posed with hunting rifles, [1870s - 1930s] 2 4
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Negative number 23.11
Caption: None
Note: Possibly Qashqai tribe.
Three men posed outdoors, [1870s - 1930s] 2 4
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Negative number 24.4
Caption: Hunters
Note: Same event depicted in negatives 24.3 (Box 2 Folder 4) and 23.10 (Box 2 Folder 4.)
Four men on a hunting trip, [1870s - 1930s] 2 4
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Negative number 24.3
Caption: Hunters
Note: Same event depicted in negative numbers 24.4 (Box 2 Folder 4) and 23.10 (Box 2 Folder 4.)
Men on a hunting trip, [1870s - 1930s] 2 4
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Negative number 23.10
Caption: None
Note: Same event depicted in negative numbers 24.4 (Box 2 Folder 4) and 24.3 (Box 2 Folder 4.)
Group of men, some holding hawks, [1870s - 1930s] 2 4
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Negative number 23.12 (947)
Caption: Hunting Hawks
Falcon on stand, [1870s - 1930s] 2 4
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Negative number 14.6
Caption: None
Subseries 1.1.41: People - Performing arts, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Royal puppet show accompanied by men in foreground playing musical instruments, [1870s - 1930s] 2 5
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Negative number 24.1
Caption: Marionettes
Note: Puppets include the king (center of couch), court servants, a eunuch, a wrestler, female entertainers, members of the Cossack brigade, the military band, and a policeman.
Royal puppet show, [1870s - 1930s] 2 5
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Negative number 50.3
Caption: None
Royal puppet show, [1870s - 1930s] 2 5
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Negative number 50.1
Caption: Marionettes
Musical instruments, [1870s - 1930s] 2 5
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Negative number 35.1 (705)
Caption: None
Scene from a theatrical or film performance, [1870s - 1930s] 2 5
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Negative number 23.1
Caption: A Theatrical Performance
Note: Copy of a photograph.
Scene from a theatrical or film performance, [1870s - 1930s] 2 5
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Negative number 21.5
Caption: Pictures of a Play
Note: Copy of a photograph.
Subseries 1.1.42: People - Rites and ceremonies, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Funeral procession, [1870s - 1930s] 2 6
View Image
Negative number 48.9 (250)
Caption: Funeral
Subseries 1.1.43: People - Executions, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Man executed by public hanging, [1870s - 1930s] 2 7
View Image
Negative number 30.5
Caption: None
Man buried alive in a gatch, ca. 1890-1900 2 7
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Negative number 39.2a (512)
Caption: Execution of a thief in a gatch
Note: Possibly a Bahai leader rather than a common thief or adulterer.
See also item in Box 1 (Sevruguin) Folder 16.
Subseries 1.1.44: Birds, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Swan and her young, [1870s - 1930s] 2 8
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Negative number 58.7
Caption: A duck
Bird. [1870s - 1930s] 2 8
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Negative number 55.5
Caption: None
Subseries 1.1.45: Architecture - Pre-Islamic - Naqshi-i Rajab, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Naqshi-i Rajab, relief IV depicting bust and inscription of Kartir, the high priest, [1870s - 1930s] 2 9
View Image
Negative number 38.11
Caption: None
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 2.
Naqsh-i Rajab, relief III depicting Shapur I mounted with suite on foot, [1870s - 1930s] 2 9
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Negative number 29.9 (852)
Caption: None
Subseries1.1.46: Architecture - Pre-Islamic - Naqsh-i Rustam, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Naqshi-i Rustam. Tomb facades of Darius I, Artaxerxes, and Darius II. [1870s - 1930s] 2 10
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Negative number 31.10a
Caption: None
Naqshi-i Rustam, tomb of Darius I, Artaxerxes, and Darius II, [1870s - 1930s] 2 10
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Negative number 35.8 (828)
Caption: None
Naqsh-i Rustam, tomb of Darius I, [1870s - 1930s] 2 10
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Negative number 38.9 (598)
Caption: None
Note: Middle register depicted from side.
See also Box 5 Folder 3.
Naqshi-i Rustam, tomb of Xerxes, [1870s - 1930s] 2 10
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Negative number 29.4
Caption: None
Naqshi-i Rustam, tomb of Xerxes, [1870s - 1930s] 2 10
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Negative number 40.10
Caption: None
Note: front façade.
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 3.
Naqshi-i Rustam, fire altars, [1870s - 1930s] 2 10
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Negative number 39.4 (827)
Caption: Altar of a fire temple
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 4.
Naqsh-i Rustam, fire altars, [1870s - 1930s] 2 10
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Negative number 35.9 (571)
Caption: None
Naqsh-i Rustam, Tower, [1870s - 1930s] 2 10
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Negative number 38.4 (823)
Caption: None
Note: from southwest.
Naqsh-i Rustam, [1870s - 1930s] 2 11
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Negative number 29.5 (572)
Caption: None
Note: Rock relief II depicts the trium of Shapur 1. Rock relief IV depicts equestrian combat of Bahram II with modern horsemen.
Sasanian rock relief depicts mounted Sasanians and defeated Romans, [1870s - 1930s] 2 11
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Negative number 38.2
Caption: None
Naqsh-i Rustam, rock relief IX, [1870s - 1930s] 2 11
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Negative number 29.8 (601)
Caption: None
Note: Attributed to Shapur II. Depicts equestrian combat.
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 3.
Naqsh-i Rustam, rock relieves I and III, [1870s - 1930s] 2 11
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Negative number 29.10 (225)
Caption: None
Note: Rock relief I depicts the investiture of Ardashir I by Hormizd and rock relief III depicts Bahram II with his court.
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 3.
Naqsh-i Rustam, rock relief I, [1870s - 1930s] 2 11
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Negative number 15.11
Caption: None
Note: Depicts the investiture of Narseh by Anahita.
Naqsh-i Rustam, rock relief IV, [1870s - 1930s] 2 11
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Negative number 47.3
Caption: None
Note: Depicts the investiture of Narseh by Anahita.
Naqsh-i Rustam, rock relief II, [1870s - 1930s] 2 11
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Negative number 38.6 (236)
Caption: Antoine Sevruguin in foreground
Note: Rock relief depicts the triumph of Shapur I over Valerian. Sevruguin pictured in the foreground.
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 3.
Subseries 1.1.47: Architecture - Pre-Islamic - Bishapur, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Bishapur, [1870s - 1930s] 2 12
View Image
Negative number 31.11 (830)
Caption: None
Note: Rock relief depicts Bahram II's subjection of Arab tribes.
Subseries 1.1.48: Architecture - Pre-Islamic - Persepolis, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Persepolis, terrace viewed from northwest corner, [1870s - 1930s] 2 13
View Image
Negative number 29.1 (822)
Caption: None
Note: Columns of Apadana visible at right.
See also Box 5 Folder 6.
Persepolis, general view from north with campsite, [1870s - 1930s] 2 13
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Negative number 31.12 (655)
Caption: None
Persepolis, terrace stairway, [1870s - 1930s] 2 13
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Negative number 35.12
Caption: None
Note: See also negative number 40.11 (Box 2 Folder 13.)
Persepolis, terrace stairway, [1870s - 1930s] 2 13
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Negative number 40.11
Caption: None
Note: See also negative number 35.12 (Box 2 Folder 13.)
Persepolis, general view from north of the standing columns of the Apadana, [1870s - 1930s] 2 13
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Negative number 38.12 (818)
Caption: None
Note: Sevruguin pictured in the foreground.
Persepolis, northern wall of the Throne Hall viewed from east, [1870s - 1930s] 2 13
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Negative number 38.8 (818)
Caption: None
Note: See also Box 5 folder 6.
Persepolis, Throne Hall, [1870s - 1930s] 2 13
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Negative number 30.12 (248)
Caption: None
Note: Northern wall, eastern doorway, east jamb. Relief depicts audience and guards.
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 6.
Persepoli, Throne Hall, [1870s - 1930s] 2 13
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Negative number 56.6 (914)
Caption: None
Note: Northern wall, eastern doorway, west jamb. Relief depicts audience and guards.
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 6.
Persepolis, Gate of Xerxes, with guardian bulls of western doorway, [1870s - 1930s] 2 13
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Negative number 31.9 (801)
Caption: None
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 6.
Persepolis, Gate of Xerxes, with guardian bulls of western doorway, [1870s - 1930s] 2 13
View Image
Negative number 38.3(140)
Caption: None
Note: Camera equipment visible on site.
Note: See also Box 5 folder 6.
Persepolis, general view of Gate of Xerxes, with guardian man-bulls of eastern doorway, [1870s - 1930s] 2 13
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Negative number 31.2 (140)
Caption: None
Note: Viewed from southeast.
Persepolis, Gate of Xerxes, with guardian man-bulls of eastern doorway, [ca. 1900] 2 14
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Negative number 31.10b (232)
Caption: None
Note: viewed from north. [Sevruguin?] in foreground. Apadan staircase in the background.
Persepolis, general view of Gate of Xerxes, with guardian man-bulls of eastern doorway, [1870s - 1930s] 2 14
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Negative number 57.9
Caption: None
Note: viewed from southeast.
Persepolis, Apadana, northern stairway, eastern wing, with standing columns, [1870s - 1930s] 2 14
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Negative number 38.7 (619)
Caption: None
Note: viewed from northeast.
Persepolis, Palace of Darius, southern stairway, central panel, with guards and trilingual inscription of Xerxes, [1870s - 1930s] 2 14
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Negative number 29.7 (174)
Caption: None
Note: viewed from southwest.
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 6.
Persepolis, Apadana, northern stairway, western side, tribute procession, with delegations IV-XV, [1870s - 1930s] 2 14
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Negative number 42.7 (806)
Caption: None
Note: viewed from northwest.
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 6.
Persepolis, Palace of Darius, [1870s - 1930s] 2 14
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Negative number 29.3 (802)
Caption: None
Note: general view from the north.
Persepolis, Palace of Darius, western doorway, [1870s - 1930s] 2 14
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Negative number 35.10 (894)
Caption: None
Note: view from southwest.
Persepolis, Council Hall, King and two attendants with parasol, Ahuramazda symbol on west jamb of Persepolis southern doorway of main hall, [1870s - 1930s] 2 14
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Negative number 38.1 (573)
Caption: None
Note: view from east.
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 6.
Persepolis, Tomb of Artaxerxes II (Tomb V), [1870s - 1930s] 2 14
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Negative number 40.9 (805)
Caption: None
Persepolis, Tomb of Artaxerxes II (Tomb V), [1870s - 1930s] 2 14
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Negative number 29.2 (81)
Caption: None
Subseries 1.1.49: Architecture - Pre-Islamic - Taq-i Bustan, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Taq-i Bustan, Cave of Shapur III, [1870s - 1930s] 2 15
View Image
Negative number 39.9
Caption: None
Note: view from water.
Note:See also Box 5 Folder 7.
Taq-i Bustan, Cave of Shapur III, [1870s - 1930s] 2 15
View Image
Negative number 47.4 (814)
Caption: Taq i Bostan
Note: view of rock relief.
Note:See also Box 5 Folder 7.
Taq-i Bustan, Cave of Shapur III, [1870s - 1930s] 2 15
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Negative number 39.10 (181)
Caption: None
Note: view of rock relief.
Taq-i Bustan, Cave of Shapur III, [1870s - 1930s] 2 15
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Negative number 39.11 (599)
Caption: None
Note: back wall of large grotto showing Sasanian reliefs.
Taq-i Bustan, Cave of Shapur III, rock relief depicting royal boar hunt, [1870s - 1930s] 2 15
View Image
Negative number 39.7
Caption: Taq i Bostan
Note: Khusrau II in boat.
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 7.
Taq-i Bustan, Cave of Shapur II, rock relief depicting royal boar hunt, [1870s - 1930s] 2 15A5
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Negative number 44.6
Caption: None
Note: Khusrau II in boat.
Taq-i Bustan, Cave of Shapur III, rock relief depicting royal deer hunt, [1870s - 1930s] 2 15
View Image
Negative number 47.5 (524)
Caption: None
Taq-i Bustan, Cave of Shapur II, [1870s - 1930s] 2 15
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Negative number 39.8 (173)
Caption: None
Note: close view of rock relief depicting royal deer hunt.
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 7.
Subseries 1.1.50: Architecture - Pre-Islamic - Rock inscriptions, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Taq-i Bustan, Cave of Shapur III [1870s - 1930s] 2 15
View Image
Negative number 52.10
Caption: None
Note: detail of rock relief depicting royal deer hunt.
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 7.
Rock-cut inscriptions, [1870s - 1930s] 2 16
View Image
Negative number 57.7 (1006)
Caption: None
Subseries 1.1.51: Architecture - Qajar - Rock reliefs, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Qajar rock relief depicting Fath Ali Shah, [1870s - 1930s] 2 17
View Image
Negative number 35.4
Caption: Chashmayi Ali at Shah Abdul Azim
Note: Located above the spring Chashmayi Ali, Sorsoreh Mountain, Rayy. Includes Western visitors at the spring.
Qajar rock relief depicting Fath Ali Shah, [1870s - 1930s] 2 17
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Negative number 0.12 (817)
Caption: Chashmajr Ali at Shah Abdul Azim
Note: Close view.
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 10.
Qajar rock relief depiciting Fath Ali Shah in royal hunt, [1870s - 1930s] 2 17
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Negative number 56.7
Caption: None
Note: Detail.
Subseries 1.1.52: Architecture - Fortress and Tower of Silence, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Fortress near rock-cut tombs, [1870s - 1930s] 2 18
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Negative number 33.7 (868)
Caption: None
Zoroastrian tower of silence, Rayy, [1870s - 1930s] 2 18
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Negative number 27.5 (307)
Caption: Tower of Silence
Zoroastrian tower of silence, [1870s - 1930s] 2 18
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Negative number 61.9
Caption: Tower of Silence
Subseries 1.1.53: Architecture - Bridges, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
River Karun and bridge at Shushtar, [1870s - 1930s] 2 19
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Negative number 28.8 (712)
Caption: Pol i Shushtar
Pul-i Khwaju, [1870s - 1930s] 2 19
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Negative number 40.3
Caption: None
Note: Bridge across the Zayandeh Rud, Isfahan.
Pul-i Khwaju, Isfahan, [1870s - 1930s] 2 19
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Negative number 40.2
Caption: None
Pul-i Khwaju, Isfahan, [1870s - 1930s] 2 19
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Negative number 40.4
Caption: None
Pul-i Ali Verdi Khan (also known as the Bridge of Julfa and the Pul-i Chehar Bagh), [1870s - 1930s] 2 19
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Negative number 40.5 (641)
Caption: Si o se pol-Isfahan
Note: Bridge across the Zayandeh Rud, Isfahan.
View of bridge, [1870s - 1930s] 2 19
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Negative number 36.5 (686)
Caption: None
Pul-i Panjabe, bridge of the "Five Waters" on the road from Tehran to Mazandaran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 19
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Negative number 44.01 (358)
Caption: None
Harajun river bridge, [1870s - 1930s] 2 19
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Negative number 33.2 (190)
Caption: None
Note: Fars province [?]
Bridge across the Shah Rud, [1870s - 1930s] 2 19
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Negative number 32.10 (720)
Caption: None
Note: From Tehran to Rasht.
View of bridge, [1870s - 1930s] 2 19
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Negative number 32.3
Caption: None
Rural bridge in Resht, [1870s - 1930s] 2 19
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Negative number 46.18
Caption: Bridge in Resht area
Note: See also Box 4 Folder 15.
Bridge on the old caravan road near Rasht, [1870s - 1930s] 2 19
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Negative number 46.5 (156)
Caption: Bridge in Resht
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 19 for a comparative image.
Ruins of bridge and barrages at Dizful, [1870s - 1930s] 2 19
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Negative number 30.6 (234)
Caption: None
Note: See also Box 4 Folder 15.
Subseries 1.1.54 Architecture - City gates, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Dawlat Gate, northeast gate of Tehran, with Alburz mountain range in background, [1870s - 1930s] 2 20
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Negative number 26.4 (277)
Caption: Darwazeyi Dowlat
Note: Northern view of the city in the snow.
Gate of Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 20
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Negative number 37.12 (98)
Caption: Darwazeyi Dowleh
Square of Cannons, [1870s - 1930s] 2 20
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Negative number 52.9
Caption: Maidani Sepah
Note: A view of the southwest corner of the Maydan-i Tupkhana with Bab-i humayun, or Royal Door, leading to the royal residential complex in Tehran.
City gate, Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 20
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Negative number 1.5b
Caption: Darwazeyi Dowlat
City gate, Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 20
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Negative number 42.2
Caption: Dorwazeyi Dowlat
Note: Seen from the outside.
Note: See also negative numbers 21.2 (Box 2 Folder 20) and 44.12 (Box 2 Folder 20) for images from different time periods.
City gate, Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 20
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Negative number 21.2
Caption: Dorwazeyi Dowlat
Note: Seen from the outside.
Note: See also negative numbers 42.2 (Box 2 Folder 20) and 44.12 (Box 2 Folder 20) for images from different time periods.
City gate, Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 20
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Negative number 44.12 (116)
Caption: Dorwezeyi Dowlat in Tehran at exit towards Shimran
Note: Seen from the outside.
Note: See also negative numbers 21.2 (Box 2 Folder 20) and 42.12 (Box 2 Folder 20) for images from different time periods.
City gate, Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 20
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Negative number 61.5
Caption: None
Subseries 1.1.55: Architecture - Caravansarai, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Caravansarai at Yazd-i Khast, [1870s - 1930s] 2 21
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Negative number 43.6 (831)
Caption: Former Qajar castle
Caravansarai, [1870s - 1930s] 2 21
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Negative number 30.7 (638)
Caption: None
Caravansarai entrance, [1870s - 1930s] 2 21
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Negative number 33.10 (228)
Caption: None
Caravansarai, [1870s - 1930s] 2 21
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Negative number 36.9
Caption: None
Caravansarai, [1870s - 1930s] 2 21
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Negative number 39.5 (172)
Caption: Caravanserai
Caravansarai, [1870s - 1930s] 2 21
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Negative number 45.3 (609)
Caption: None
Subseries 1.1.56: Architecture - Buildings, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Imperial Bank of Persia in Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 22
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Negative number 1.7
Caption: None
Imperial Bank of Persia in Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 22
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Negative number 17.3
Caption: None
Note: Scene also depicts a man carrying Chinese lanterns.
Detail of Qajar era fresco on top of Imperial Bank of Persia in Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 22
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Negative number 0.14
Caption: None
Note: See also negative number 17.3 (Box 2 Folder 22.)
Imperial Bank of Peria at the maidan-i Sepah, Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 22
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Negative number 1.12b
Caption: None
Note: Early Pahlavi era. Fresco lacks Qajar inscription as depicted in negative 17.3 (Box 2 Folder 22.) Electric wires and cars are visible.
Imperial Bank of Persia in Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 22
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Negative number 17.8
Caption: Imperial Bank of Persia
Note: Pool and fountain in foreground.
Bank-e Melli, National Bank of Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 22
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Negative number 46.3
Caption: Banki Milli, Teheran
Parliament building, Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 22
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Negative number 48.7 (323)
Caption: Entrance to Parliament
Parliament building, Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 22
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Negative number 44.5
Caption: Parliament Building, Teheran
Former parliament building, [1870s - 1930s] 2 22
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Negative number 46.10
Caption: Former Parliament Building, Teheran
Embassy compound [?], [1870s - 1930s] 2 22
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Negative number 36.3 (124)
Caption: Barracks in Teharan
Note: Westerners pictured in background.
Square of Cannons in Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 22
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Negative number 20.02 (964)
Caption: None
Note: Alburz mountain range pictured in background.
Maydan i Sepah [1870s - 1930s] 2 23
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Negative number 41.4 (254)
Caption: Maidan i Sepah
Maydan-i Tupkhana [?], [1870s - 1930s] 2 23
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Negative number 17.4
Caption: None
Note: Car in scene.
Maydan-i Tupkhana in Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 23
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Negative number 58.10 (1049)
Caption: None
Avenue near Maydan-i Tupkhana in Tehran [1870s - 1930s] 2 23
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Negative number 3.3
Caption: Nazmiyeh
Note: Military complex [?]
Square of Cannons, [1870s - 1930s] 2 23
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Negative number 3.5 (1010)
Caption: Touphaneh
Note: View of southwest corner of the maydan-i Tupkhana in Tehran.
Maydan-i Tupkhana, Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 23
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Negative number 23.7
Caption: None
Note: Military procession.
Portal to Maydan-i Mashq (the exercise square for military training), [1870s - 1930s] 2 23
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Negative number 36.2 (111)
Caption: Gate of Makhsh Maidan
Municipality, [1870s - 1930s] 2 23
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Negative number 13.165
Caption: Municipality - Tehran
Building complex, [1870s - 1930s] 2 23
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Negative number 36.12
Caption: Makhsh Maidan in Teheran
Note: Man seated in the foreground.
Military training square in Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 23
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Negative number 44.1 (94)
Caption: Maidani Makhsh
Note: Dogs devouring dead horses in foreground.
Citadel [?] in Tehran or possibly city gate to Shiraz [?], [1870s - 1930s] 2 23
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Negative number 44.9
Caption: Teheran (citadel?)
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 14.
Garden and house in [Tehran?], [1870s - 1930s] 2 24
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Negative number 48.10
Garden and house in [Tehran?], [1870s - 1930s] 2 24
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Negative number 32.9
Caption: None
Telegraph office, [1870s - 1930s] 2 24
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Negative number 47.6 (49)
Caption: Bushire Telegraph Office
House and formal garden at port of Bandar Anzali, Gilan, [1870s - 1930s] 2 24
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Negative number 18.7
Caption: None
Note: Bay area off the Caspian Sea.
See also negative numbers 25.4 (Box 2 Folder 24), 60.4 (Box 2 Folder 24), 16.2 (Box 2 Folder 24), 19.12 (Box 2 Folder 24), 60.6 (Box 2 Folder 24), 56.10 (Box 2 Folder 24), 13.02 (Box 2 Folder 24), 60.5 (Box 2 Folder 24), and 60.3 (Box 2 Folder 25.)
House and formal garden at port of Bandar Anzali, Gilan, [1870s - 1930s] 2 24
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Negative number 25.4
Caption: None
Note: Bay area off the Caspian Sea.
Note: See also negative numbers 18.7 (Box 2 Folder 24), 60.4 (Box 2 Folder 24), 16.2 (Box 2 Folder 24), 19.12 (Box 2 Folder 24), 60.6 (Box 2 Folder 24), 56.10 (Box 2 Folder 24), 13.02 (Box 2 Folder 24), 60.5 (Box 2 Folder 24), and 60.3 (Box 2 Folder 25.)
Park area at port of Bandar Anzali, Gilan, [1870s - 1930s] 2 24
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Negative number 60.4
Caption: Pahlivi New City
Note: See also negative numbers 25.4 (Box 2 Folder 24), 18.7 (Box 2 Folder 24), 16.2 (Box 2 Folder 24), 19.12 (Box 2 Folder 24), 60.6 (Box 2 Folder 24), 56.10 (Box 2 Folder 24), 13.02 (Box 2 Folder 24), 60.5 (Box 2 Folder 24), and 60.3 (Box 2 Folder 25.)
Park and buildings at port of Bandar Anzali, Gilan, [1870s - 1930s] 2 24
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Negative number 16.2
Caption: None
Note: See also negative numbers 25.4 (Box 2 Folder 24), 18.7 (Box 2 Folder 24), 60.4 (Box 2 Folder 24), 19.12 (Box 2 Folder 24), 60.6 (Box 2 Folder 24), 56.10 (Box 2 Folder 24), 13.02 (Box 2 Folder 24), 60.5 (Box 2 Folder 24), and 60.3 (Box 2 Folder 25.)
Walkway at port of Bandar Anzali, Gilan, [1870s - 1930s] 2 24
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Negative number 19.12
Caption: None
Note: See also negative numbers 25.4 (Box 2 Folder 24), 18.7 (Box 2 Folder 24), 16.2 (Box 2 Folder 24), 60.4 (Box 2 Folder 24), 60.6 (Box 2 Folder 24), 56.10 (Box 2 Folder 24), 13.02 (Box 2 Folder 24), 60.5 (Box 2 Folder 24), and 60.3 (Box 2 Folder 25.)
Park area at port of Bandar Anzali, Gilan, [1870s - 1930s] 2 24
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Negative number 60.6
Caption: None
Note: See also negative numbers 25.4 (Box 2 Folder 24), 18.7 (Box 2 Folder 24), 16.2 (Box 2 Folder 24), 19.12 (Box 2 Folder 24), 60.4 (Box 2 Folder 24), 56.10 (Box 2 Folder 24), 13.02 (Box 2 Folder 24), 60.5 (Box 2 Folder 24), and 60.3 (Box 2 Folder 25.)
Park area at port of Bandar Anzali, Gilan, [1870s - 1930s] 2 24
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Negative number 56.10
Caption: None
Note: See also negative numbers 25.4 (Box 2 Folder 24), 18.7 (Box 2 Folder 24), 16.2 (Box 2 Folder 24), 19.12 (Box 2 Folder 24), 60.6 (Box 2 Folder 24), 60.4 (Box 2 Folder 24), 13.02 (Box 2 Folder 24), 60.5 (Box 2 Folder 24), and 60.3 (Box 2 Folder 25.)
Park area at port of Bandar Anzali, Gilan, [1870s - 1930s] 2 24
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Negative number 13.02
Caption: None
Note: See also negative numbers 25.4 (Box 2 Folder 24), 18.7 (Box 2 Folder 24), 16.2 (Box 2 Folder 24), 19.12 (Box 2 Folder 24), 60.6 (Box 2 Folder 24), 56.10 (Box 2 Folder 24), 60.4 (Box 2 Folder 24), 60.5 (Box 2 Folder 24), and 60.3 (Box 2 Folder 25.)
Park area at port of Bandar Anzali, Gilan, [1870s - 1930s] 2 25
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Negative number 60.5
Caption: None
Note: See also negative numbers 25.4 (Box 2 Folder 24), 18.7 (Box 2 Folder 24), 16.2 (Box 2 Folder 24), 19.12 (Box 2 Folder 24), 60.6 (Box 2 Folder 24), 56.10 (Box 2 Folder 24), 13.02 (Box 2 Folder 24), 60.4(Box 2 Folder 24), and 60.3 (Box 2 Folder 25.)
Aerial view of buildings at Bandar Anzali, Gilan, [1870s - 1930s] 2 25
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Negative number 60.3
Caption: None
Note: See also negative numbers 25.4 (Box 2 Folder 24), 18.7 (Box 2 Folder 24), 16.2 (Box 2 Folder 24), 19.12 (Box 2 Folder 24), 60.6 (Box 2 Folder 24), 56.10 (Box 2 Folder 24), 13.02 (Box 2 Folder 24), 60.5 (Box 2 Folder 24), and 60.4 (Box 2 Folder 24.)
Mosque at Rasht, [1870s - 1930s] 2 25
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Negative number 60.1
Caption: None
Building, [1870s - 1930s] 2 25
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Negative number 2.03
Caption: None
Building beside water in [Tehran?], [1870s - 1930s] 2 25
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Negative number 18.3
Caption: None
Government building [?], [1870s - 1930s] 2 25
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Negative number 2.013
Caption: None
Building with horse carriage and men in front [Tehran?], [1870s - 1930s] 2 25
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Negative number 24.5
Caption: Baladieh
Walled building with enclosure and flag, [1870s - 1930s] 2 25
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Negative number 55.4 (1133)
Caption: None
Gate and outpost building, [1870s - 1930s] 2 25
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Negative number 33.6 (302)
Caption: None
Note: Sign in Persian reads "Keraj."
Building with conical roof, [1870s - 1930s] 2 25
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Negative number 34.1 (282)
Caption: None
Subseries 1.1.57: Architecture - Buildings - Architectural details, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Wooden doors with incriptions, [1870s - 1930s] 2 26
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Negative number 19.4
Caption: None
Wooden door covered with silver plates, Madrasa Madar-i Shah, Isfahan, [1870s - 1930s] 2 26
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Negative number 50.2
Inscriptions on wooden panel, [1870s - 1930s] 2 26
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Negative number 41.1
Caption: None
Subseries 1.1.58: Architecture - Buildings - Embassies, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
British Embassy [in Tehran?], [1870s - 1930s] 2 27
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Negative number 15.7
Caption: None
British Embassy, [1870s - 1930s] 2 27
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Negative number 36.1
Caption: Interior of British Embassy
Note: Interior with man seated at desk.
British Embassy, [1870s - 1930s] 2 27
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Negative number 41.7
Caption: Interior of British Embassy
British Embassy, [1870s - 1930s] 2 27
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Negative number 41.6
Caption: Interior of British Embassy
Note: Interior with set dining table.
Russian Embassy, [1870s - 1930s] 2 27
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Negative number 27.1
Caption: Conference room in Russian Embassy. Russian writing reads, "Lenin Lived/Lenin Lives/Lenin Will Always Lives"
Note: Depicts work table with books and papers.
Residence of an American diplomat [?], [1870s - 1930s] 2 27
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Negative number 26.10 (11)
Caption: Residence salon
Note: See also Box 4 Folder 15.
Subseries 1.1.59: Architecture - Triumphal arches, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Ceremony at archway commemorating the coronation of Reza Shah Pahlavi, Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 28
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Negative number 44.10
Caption: Crowning of Reza Shah (arch)
Triumphal arch of Reza Shah Pahlavi in Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 28
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Negative number 48.1
Caption: None
Triumphal arch at Square of the Cannons in Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 28
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Negative number 43.4
Caption: Triumphal Arch
Subseries 1.1.60 Architecture - Street scenes, parks and gardens, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Street scene in Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 29
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Negative number 17.7 (978)
Caption: None
Note: See also negative number 52.7 (Box 2 Folder 29) for a depiction of the same street.
Street scene in Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 29
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Negative number 19.8
Caption: None
Note: See also negative number 19.7, street depicted may extend around the corner of the building with the lion motif.
Street scene in front of a mosque, [1870s - 1930s] 2 29
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Negative number 1.2
Caption: Russian exposition
Note: Possibly the entrance to Tehran's bazaar district.
Street scene, [1870s - 1930s] 2 29
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Negative number 19.7
Caption: None
Note: [Dawlat area of Tehran?]
Street scene in Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 29
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Negative number 19.10 (1108)
Caption: None
Note: See also negative number 19.8 (Box 2 Folder 29), street may be one that extends around corner of building with lion motif.
Street scene [hospital entrance], [1870s - 1930s] 2 29
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Negative number 22.2
Caption: None
Note: Sign above building indicates it is a government hospital entrance. Early Pahlavi era.
Nasseriyeh Street, [1870s - 1930s] 2 29
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Negative number 26.2 (295)
Caption: Khiabani Nasirieh
Ala al-dawla St. (Firdawsi Ave.), Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 29
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Negative number 18.8
Caption: Khiabani A'la i Dowleh
Street scene, [1870s - 1930s] 2 29
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Negative number 52.1 (1221)
Caption: Khiabani Cheragh barg
Street scene in Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 29
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Negative number 13.442
Caption: Khiabani Arc
Street scene in Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 29
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Negative number 52.7
Caption: Khiabani Nasiriyeh
Note: See also negative 17.7 (Box 2 Folder 29.) This photograph is the northern portion of the same street.
Ala al-dawla Street (Firdawsi Avenue) in Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 29
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Negative number 52.4b
Caption: Khiabani A'la i Dowleh
Street scene in front of a mosque , [1870s - 1930s] 2 30
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Negative number 2.01
Caption: None
Note: Possibly outside Iran.
Street scene, [1870s - 1930s] 2 30
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Negative number 2.02
Caption: None
Tree lined street with carriages, [1870s - 1930s] 2 30
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Negative number 14.7
Caption: None
Park-i Atabak, pool, and gazebo, [1870s - 1930s] 2 30
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Negative number 32.7 (436)
Caption: None
Ala al-dawla Street (Firdawsi Ave.), Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 30
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Negative number 34.5 (100)
Caption: None
Note: Depicted in the snow.
Tree lined avenue, Dushan Tapa, [1870s - 1930s] 2 30
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Negative number 60.2 (1224)
Caption: None
Tree lined avenue leading to a gate and garden, [1870s - 1930s] 2 30
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Negative number 23.5
Caption: None
Ala al-dawla Street (Firdawsi Ave.), Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 2 30
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Negative number 33.3
Caption: None
German embassy's property in Gulahek, [1870s - 1930s] 2 30
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Negative number 46.2
Caption: German Embassy property in Gulhak
Note: View of path by stream.
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 19.
Trees lining Chehar Bagh, the Great Avenue in Isfahan, [1870s - 1930s] 2 30
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Negative number 44.11
Caption: Chehar bagh, Isfahan
Two men outside a walled garden or cemetery, [1870s - 1930s] 2 30
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Negative number 55.7
Caption: None
Subseries 1.1.61: Architecture - Mosques, shrines, and tombs, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Religious dignitaries in front of a shrine, [1870s - 1930s] 3 1
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Negative number 41.3
Caption: Entrance to Kazemain
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 1.
Shrine near Baghdad, [1870s - 1930s] 3 1
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Negative number 37.1 (663)
Caption: Kazemain (?)
Note: Possibly Alid sanctuary.
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 13.
Manar of Masjid-i Juma (Great Mosque), Damghan, [1870s - 1930s] 3 1
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Negative number 31.8
Caption: Tower in Damghan
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 12.
Masjid-i Sheikh Lotfollah, Isfahan, [1870s - 1930s] 3 1
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Negative number 34.6 (405)
Caption: Masjid-I Sheikh Lutfallah
Note: General view of dome and maydan.
Great square of Masjid-i Shah (Royal Mosque) Isfahan. [1870s - 1930s] 3 1
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Negative number 48.4
Caption: Isfahan, Maidani Shah
Madrasa Madar-e Shah, [1870s - 1930s] 3 1
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Negative number 53.9
Caption: Isfahan, Madrasa, Madar-i Shah/cupola with scaffolding for repairs by the Russians during partition
Mosque, aerial view of city, [1870s - 1930s] 3 1
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Negative number 50.8
Caption: None
Note: Palm trees in the background.
Note: See also negative number 48.6 for a comparative view.
Imam Riza in Mashad, [1870s - 1930s] 3 1
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Negative number 41.14 (103)
Caption: Imam Riza Meshhed
Masjid-i Shah in Qazvin (Kazvin), [1870s - 1930s] 3 1
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Negative number 40.8 (481)
Caption: Al-Anibar Qazvin
Note: View of iwan.
Mosque of Shah Sultan Hussein in Qazvin, [1870s - 1930s] 3 1
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Negative number 15.12
Caption: None
Note: View of entrance.
Mosque of Shah Sultan Hussein, Qazvin, [1870s - 1930s] 3 1
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Negative number 48.5 (619)
Caption: None
Note: View of entrance.
Masjid-i Kabud (the Blue Mosque) in Tabriz, [1870s - 1930s] 3 1
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Negative number 46.19 (507)
Caption: Blue Mosque (Masjid-i Kabud) Tabriz
Note: View of large iwan.
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 12.
Masjid-i Shah Abdul Azim in Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 3 2
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Negative number 56.12
Caption: None
Masjid-i Shah Abdul Azim in Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 3 2
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Negative number 54.4 (1132)
Caption: Qom
Note: Court view.
Note: See Box 1 (Sevruguin) Folder 18 for a comparative image.
Masjid-i Shah Abdul Azim in Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 3 2
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Negative number 1.10
Caption: Shah Abdul Azim
Imamzadeh Qassem, Shimiran, [1870s - 1930s] 3 2
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Negative number 14.8
Caption: None
Note: Distant view of foothills of Alburz mountain range.
Note: Negative number 52.3 (Box 3 Folder 2) possibly a related view.
Large gathering in front of a mosque, [1870s - 1930s] 3 2
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Negative number 3.4 (1092)
Caption: Namiyeh
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 12 for a possible related view.
Cossack officers standing in front of a mosque iwan, [1870s - 1930s] 3 2
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Negative number 59.1
Shrine of Shaikh Safi in Ardabil, [1870s - 1930s] 3 2
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Negative number 36.8 (274)
Caption: None
Note: View of mihrab.
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 12.
Shrine of Shaikh Safi in Ardabil, [1870s - 1930s] 3 2
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Negative number 31.7 (187)
Caption: Tombeau de Sheikh
Note: Exterior view of tomb chamber, south fa硤e.
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 17.
Imamzadeh Qassem in Shimiran, [1870s - 1930s] 3 2
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Negative number 52.3
Caption: Imamzadeh Gasim
Note: See also negative number 14.8 (Box 3 Folder 2.)
Mosque of Gawhar Shad in Mashhad, [1870s - 1930s] 3 2
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Negative number 32.2 (704)
Caption: None
Note: View of dome and top of manars.
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 12.
Manar and rooftops, [1870s - 1930s] 3 3
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Negative number 56.8 (1159)
Caption: None
Gunbad-i Alayvian in Hamadan, [1870s - 1930s] 3 3
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Negative number 36.6
Caption: None
Note: View of northeast façade.
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 12.
Mosque with small crowd of people in front, [1870s - 1930s] 3 3
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Negative number 32.1 (610)
Caption: None
Rear view of a mosque [in Kashan?], [1870s - 1930s] 3 3
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Negative number 33.5 (167)
Caption: None
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 13.
Shrine of Fatima al-Ma'suma in Qum, [1870s - 1930s] 3 3
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Negative number 35.3 (66)
Caption: None
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 13.
Iwan of a mosque, [1870s - 1930s] 3 3
View Image
Negative number 36.10
Caption: None
Cemetery in Qum, [1870s - 1930s] 3 3
View Image
Negative number 26.12
Caption: Qom
Note: Shrine of Fatima al-Ma'suma in background.
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 13.
Shrine of Fatima al-Ma'suma in Qum, [1870s - 1930s] 3 3
View Image
Negative number 1.9
Caption: Qum
Note: Distant view.
Shrine of Fatima al-Ma'suma in Qum, [1870s - 1930s] 3 3
View Image
Negative number 37.7 (892)
Caption: Mashad
Shrine of Fatima al-Ma'suma in Qum, [1870s - 1930s] 3 3
View Image
Negative number 53.10 (1093)
Caption: Shah Abdul Azim
Note: North façade.
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 13.
Shrine of Fatima al-Ma'suma in Qum, [1870s - 1930s] 3 4
View Image
Negative number 17.1 (1031)
Caption: Abdul Azim
Note: North façade.
Imamzadeh at Qum, [1870s - 1930s] 3 4
View Image
Negative number 31.3 (107)
Caption: Imamzadeh at Qom
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 13.
Pishtaq (arched and framed portal) of a ruined building in Qum, [1870s - 1930s] 3 4
View Image
Negative number 59.12 (998)
Caption: None
Imamzadeh, [1870s - 1930s] 3 4
View Image
Negative number 30.8
Caption: None
Note: Europeans on horses in the foreground.
Imamzadeh with "sugar-loaf" dome, [1870s - 1930s] 3 4
View Image
Negative number 45.4 (439)
Caption: None
Haruniya mausoleum in Tus, [1870s - 1930s] 3 4
View Image
Negative number 26.9
Caption: Imamzadeh in Nishapur
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 18.
Tom Emir Arghun's daughter Salmas, [1870s - 1930s] 3 4
View Image
Negative number 47.2
Caption: None
Note: Tomb destroyed by an earthquake ca. 1931.
See also Box 5 Folder 17.
Shrine of Bayazid al-Bastami in Bastam, [1870s - 1930s] 3 4
View Image
Negative number 36.7 (192)
Caption: None
Note: View of minaret.
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 18.
Naqsh-i Rustam, Tomb of Darius I, [1870s - 1930s] 3 4
View Image
Negative number 30.11 (569)
Caption: None
Note: Interior view towards the northeast end.
Naqsh-i Rustam, Tomb of Darius I, [1870s - 1930s] 3 4
View Image
Negative number 29.6 (61)
Caption: None
Note: Northeast vault.
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 18.
Subseries 1.1.62: Architecture - Yazd-i Khast, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Yazd-i Khast, [1870s - 1930s] 3 5
View Image
Negative number 1.11
Caption: None
Note: General view of ancient fortress.
Yazd-i Khast, [1870s - 1930s] 3 5
View Image
Negative number 1.6
Caption: None
Note: General view
Yazd-i Khast, [1870s - 1930s] 3 5
View Image
Negative number 30.2
Caption: Yazdi Khast
Note: View from the northwest.
Yazd-i Khast, [1870s - 1930s] 3 5
View Image
Negative number 35.7 (387)
Caption: None
Note: General view.
Wooden bridge to Yazd-i Khast, [1870s - 1930s] 3 5
View Image
Negative number 30.1 (196)
Caption: Bridge of Yazdi Khast
Note: View from the southern side of fortress.
Subseries 1.1.63: Architecture - Townscapes and villages, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Tehran, city rooftops, [1870s - 1930s] 3 6
View Image
Negative number 48.8 (290)
Caption: Scene of Teheran
Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 3 6
View Image
Negative number 31.4 (207)
Caption: View of Teheran from Darwazeyi Dawlat
Aerial view of domed rooftops in Kashan, [1870s - 1930s] 3 6
View Image
Negative number 49.5 (462)
Caption: None
Note: Copy of negative 0.13 [?]
Aerial view of domed rooftops in Kashan, [1870s - 1930s] 3 6
View Image
Negative number 0.13 (462) (1615)
Caption: None
Note: Copy of negative number 49.5 [?]
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 15.
View of Shushtar, [1870s - 1930s] 3 6
View Image
Negative number 32.11 (810)
Caption: None
Darband, general view, [1870s - 1930s] 3 6
View Image
Negative number 53.8
Caption: Darband
View of village rooftops [Manzandaran?], [1870s - 1930s] 3 6
View Image
Negative number 45.5 (522)
Caption: None
Mazandaran, rest stop [?] with thatched roofed structures, [1870s - 1930s] 3 6
View Image
Negative number 42.11
Caption: Scene in Mazandaran
View of Zagros mountains, [1870s - 1930s] 3 6
View Image
Negative number 14.4
Caption: None
Note: Men in foreground standing on the city wall of Luristan.
Cultivated fields and gardens around Shiraz, [1870s - 1930s] 3 6
View Image
Negative number 46.9
Caption: General view of Shimran
Distant view of Bagh-i firdaws, Shimran, [1870s - 1930s] 3 6
View Image
Negative number 20.184
Caption: Deyzashur
Note: See also negative number 58.2 (Box1 Folder 12) for a comparative image.
Shimran townscape, [1870s - 1930s] 3 7
View Image
Negative number 20.172
Caption: Shimran
Townscape, [1870s - 1930s] 3 7
View Image
Negative number 48.6 (279)
Caption: None
Note: Palm trees in background.
Note: See also negative number 50.8 (Box 3 Folder 1) for a comparative view.
Dirt path and rock wall with gatepost in Shimran, [1870s - 1930s] 3 7
View Image
Negative number 20.01
Caption: Shimran
Townscape, [1870s - 1930s] 3 7
View Image
Negative number 15.8
Caption: None
Townscape, [1870s - 1930s] 3 7
View Image
Negative number 15.1
Caption: None
City rooftops against snowcapped mountains, [1870s - 1930s] 3 7
View Image
Negative number 0.2
Caption: None
Townscape, [1870s - 1930s] 3 7
View Image
Negative number 45.2 (241)
Caption: None
Townscape, [1870s - 1930s] 3 7
View Image
Negative number 33.4 (700)
Caption: None
Note: Water and mountain in background.
City rooftops, [1870s - 1930s] 3 7
View Image
Negative number 25.3 (965)
Caption: None
Village building, [1870s - 1930s] 3 7
View Image
Negative number 39.6 (711)
Caption: Zargandeh
General view of village, [1870s - 1930s] 3 7
View Image
Negative number 47.13 (24)
Caption: None
City rooftops, [1870s - 1930s] 3 8
View Image
Negative number 47.1
Caption: None
General view of a village, [1870s - 1930s] 3 8
View Image
Negative number 45.7
Caption: None
Barns in southern Iran, [1870s - 1930s] 3 8
View Image
Negative number 46.4 (455)
Caption: Barns in S. Iran
General view of a village, [1870s - 1930s] 3 8
View Image
Negative number 34.2 (289)
Caption: None
General view of a village, [1870s - 1930s] 3 8
View Image
Negative number 37.14 (735)
Caption: None
General view of a village, [1870s - 1930s] 3 8
View Image
Negative number 27.3 (447)
Caption: None
Townscape, [1870s - 1930s] 3 8
View Image
Negative number 18.1
Caption: None
Townscape, [1870s - 1930s] 3 8
View Image
Negative number 19.5
Caption: None
General view of a village, [1870s - 1930s] 3 8
View Image
Negative number 19.11
Caption: None
Campsite and village in the mountains, [1870s - 1930s] 3 8
View Image
Negative number 33.1 (292)
Caption: None
General view of village, [1870s - 1930s] 3 9
View Image
Negative number 32.12 (500)
Caption: None
House in ruins [Gilan?], [1870s - 1930s] 3 9
View Image
Negative number 2.011
Caption: None
Rooftops of a small village, [1870s - 1930s] 3 9
View Image
Negative number 0.7 (1129)
Caption: None
Buildings along seawall, [1870s - 1930s] 3 9
View Image
Negative number 0.10
Caption: None
Hot springs at Damavand mountain, Abigarm, [1870s - 1930s] 3 9
View Image
Negative number 45.6 (617)
Caption: None
Note: See negative 43.9 (Box 3 Folder 10) for a comparative view.
Bridge and rock wall, [1870s - 1930s] 3 9
View Image
Negative number 14.9
Caption: None
Woman and boy at spring, [1870s - 1930s] 3 9
View Image
Negative number 14.5
Caption: None
Landscape with buildings and mounds, [1870s - 1930s] 3 9
View Image
Negative number 22.1 (960)
Caption: None
Stone walls in landscape, [1870s - 1930s] 3 9
View Image
Negative number 45.1 (556)
Caption: None
Landscape, [1870s - 1930s] 3 9
View Image
Negative number 55.3
Caption: None
Subseries 1.1.64: Landscapes, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Waterfall, [1870s - 1930s] 3 10
View Image
Negative number 54.3
Caption: Abshar
Mount Damavand of the Alburz range, [1870s - 1930s] 3 10
View Image
Negative number 13.437
Caption: Damavand
Note:
Hot springs at Mt. Damavand, Abigarm, [1870s - 1930s] 3 10
View Image
Negative number 43.9 (402)
Caption: Abi Garm on Damavand
Note: See also negative 45.6 (Box 3 Folder 9) for a comparative view.
Geyser at Mt. Damavand, Abigarm, [1870s - 1930s] 3 10
View Image
Negative number 42.9 (620)
Caption: Demavand-geyser/Abi garm
Camp set in front of hills, Gulahek, [1870s - 1930s] 3 10
View Image
Negative number 3.1
Caption: Hills near Gulhak
Mountainous landscape, [1870s - 1930s] 3 10
View Image
Negative number 42.5
Caption: Road to Mazandaran
The Safid Rud and rural buildings, near Rasht, [1870s - 1930s] 3 10
View Image
Negative number 31.5 (160)
Caption: Scene near Resht
Man seated on a mountain top in Shimran, [1870s - 1930s] 3 10
View Image
Negative number 20.501 (1033)
Caption: Mountains of Shimran
Soldier and four individuals [family?] seated in front of a waterfall, [1870s - 1930s] 3 10
View Image
Negative number 13.166
Caption: Waterfall - Shimran
Pul-i Rumi, Shimran, [1870s - 1930s] 3 11
View Image
Negative number 56.5
Caption: Pol i Rumi, Shimran
Note: Guards at estate gate and small bridge over a dry river bed.
Note: See also Box 5 Folder 15.
Pul-i Rumi, Shimran, [1870s - 1930s] 3 11
View Image
Negative number 13.164
Caption: Pol i rumi - Shimran
Note: Building beside a small bridge over a dry river bed.
Mountainous landscape in Shimran, [1870s - 1930s] 3 11
View Image
Negative number 43.5 (161)
Caption: Sari band - Shimran
Kutalipar Zan [Pass of the Old Woman] on way to Persian Gulf, [1870s - 1930s] 3 11
View Image
Negative number 30.10
Caption: Old road to Shimran
Sorkh-i Hisar Palace, [1870s - 1930s] 3 11
View Image
Negative number 55.8
Caption: None
Note: Northwest of Tehran. Distant view.
Building and view of the Alburz mountains, [1870s - 1930s] 3 11
View Image
Negative number 16.1
Caption: None
Note: North of Tehran.
Safid Rud valley, [1870s - 1930s] 3 11
View Image
Negative number 26.3 (109)
Caption: None
Note: See also Box 4 Folder 16.
River gorge, [1870s - 1930s] 3 11
View Image
Negative number 36.4 (749)
Caption: None
Lanscape with a large rock, [1870s - 1930s] 3 12
View Image
Negative number 20.173 (1021)
Caption: None
Landscape view from a building's porch, [1870s - 1930s] 3 12
View Image
Negative number 16.5
Caption: None
Landscape, [1870s - 1930s] 3 12
View Image
Negative number 61.8 (1048)
Caption: None
Landscape, [1870s - 1930s] 3 12
View Image
Negative number 55.6 (913)
Caption: None
Landscape in Shimran, [1870s - 1930s] 3 12
View Image
Negative number 33.9 (298)
Caption: Shimran
Maiden's Pass, [1870s - 1930s] 3 12
View Image
Negative number 34.3
Caption: None
Note: Road from Shiraz to the Persian Gulf.
Landscape with men walking along a road, [1870s - 1930s] 3 12
View Image
Negative number 34.4
Caption: None
Road and rider on horseback, [1870s - 1930s] 3 12
View Image
Negative number 54.1
Caption: Road to Abi Ali
Subseries 1.1.65: Industrial [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Russians posed with possibly the first truck in Iran, [1870s - 1930s] 3 13
View Image
Negative number 27.10 (355)
Caption: First truck
Train, [1870s - 1930s] 3 13
View Image
Negative number 17.5 (1031)
Caption: None
Group posed with a Junkers airplane, [1870s - 1930s] 3 13
View Image
Negative number 48.13.
Caption: First plane in Iran
Group posed with a German Junkers airplane in Iran, 1928 3 13
View Image
Negative number 48.2
Caption: First (?) plane to land in Iran
Note: Hady Atabay, later head of Iranian military health services, appears in white jacket under the "e" of "Junkers".
Wireless tower, [1920s - 1930s] 3 13
View Image
Negative number 39.3
Caption: Wireless tower
Wireless tower, ca. 1920 3 13
View Image
Negative number 42.12
Caption: Wireless tower (1928)
Subseries 1.1.66: Arts - Carpets, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Carpet, [1870s - 1930s] 3 14
View Image
Negative number 4.5
Caption: None
Carpet, [1870s - 1930s] 3 14
View Image
Negative number 4.10
Caption: None
Carpet, [1870s - 1930s] 3 14
View Image
Negative number 4.12
Caption: None
Carpet, [1870s - 1930s] 3 14
View Image
Negative number 7.13
Caption: None
Carpet, [1870s - 1930s] 3 14
View Image
Negative number 7.14
Caption: None
Carpet, [1870s - 1930s] 3 14
View Image
Negative number 8.9
Caption: None
Carpet, [1870s - 1930s] 3 14
View Image
Negative number 10.1
Caption: None
Subseries 1.1.67: Arts - Ceramics, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Plate, [1870s - 1930s] 3 15
View Image
Negative number 5.3 (983)
Caption: None
Broken plate, [1870s - 1930s] 3 15
View Image
Negative number 40.1
Caption: None
Star-shaped minai dish, [1870s - 1930s] 3 15
View Image
Negative number 7.6
Caption: None
Interior of multi-lobed bowl, [1870s - 1930s] 3 15
View Image
Negative number 10.8
Caption: None
Exterior of minai bowl, [1870s - 1930s] 3 15
View Image
Negative number 4.6
Caption: None
Exterior of minai bowl, [1870s - 1930s] 3 15
View Image
Negative number 7.3
Caption: None
Base of minai bowl, [1870s - 1930s] 3 15
View Image
Negative number 11.3
Caption: None
Interior of minai bowl, [1870s - 1930s] 3 15
View Image
Negative number 7.2
Caption: None
Interior of minai bowl, [1870s - 1930s] 3 15
View Image
Negative number 4.3
Caption: None
Interior of minai bowl, [1870s - 1930s] 3 15
View Image
Negative number 8.5
Caption: None
Interior of minai bowl, [1870s - 1930s] 3 16
View Image
Negative number 17.9
Caption: None
Interior of minai bowl (broken), [1870s - 1930s] 3 16
View Image
Negative number 59.11
Caption: None
Interior of minai bowl, [1870s - 1930s] 3 16
View Image
Negative number 7.1
Caption: None
Interior of minai bowl (broken), [1870s - 1930s] 3 16
View Image
Negative number 59.3
Caption: None
Interior of minai bowl, [1870s - 1930s] 3 16
View Image
Negative number 6.3
Caption: None
Interior of minai bowl, [1870s - 1930s] 3 16
View Image
Negative number 5.5
Caption: None
Interior of minai bowl, [1870s - 1930s] 3 16
View Image
Negative number 9.6
Caption: None
Interior of bowl (broken), [1870s - 1930s] 3 16
View Image
Negative number 9.7
Caption: None
Interior of dish with scalloped, upright sides and narrow, grooved rim, [1870s - 1930s] 3 16
View Image
Negative number 35.2
Caption: None
Note: Dish is from the Seljuk dynasty, dated 1210, signed by Sayyid Shams-al-Din al-Hasani. Part of the Freer Gallery art collection, F1941.11.
Interior of bowl (broken), [1870s - 1930s] 3 16
View Image
Negative number 10.5
Caption: None
Interior of bowl, [1870s - 1930s] 3 17
View Image
Negative number 9.2
Caption: None
Interior of bowl, [1870s - 1930s] 3 17
View Image
Negative number 6.4
Caption: None
Interior of bowl, [1870s - 1930s] 3 17
View Image
Negative number 6.5
Caption: None
Interior of bowl, [1870s - 1930s] 3 17
View Image
Negative number 5.7
Caption: None
Interior of bowl, [1870s - 1930s] 3 17
View Image
Negative number 10.6
Caption: None
Interior of bowl, [1870s - 1930s] 3 17
View Image
Negative number 6.2
Caption: None
Interior of bowl, [1870s - 1930s] 3 17
View Image
Negative number 9.3
Caption: None
Interior of bowl (broken), [1870s - 1930s] 3 17
View Image
Negative number 7.8
Caption: None
Interior of bowl (broken), [1870s - 1930s] 3 17
View Image
Negative number 8.6
Caption: None
Interior of two bowls, [1870s - 1930s] 3 17
View Image
Negative number 10.9
Caption: None
Interior of three bowls, [1870s - 1930s] 3 18
View Image
Negative number 6.1
Caption: None
Interior of three bowls, [1870s - 1930s] 3 18
View Image
Negative number 59.6
Caption: None
Interior of four [Sultanabad?] bowls, [1870s - 1930s] 3 18
View Image
Negative number 59.2
Caption: None
Three [Sultanabad?] bowls, [1870s - 1930s] 3 18
View Image
Negative number 59.8
Caption: None
Interior of three bowls, [1870s - 1930s] 3 18
View Image
Negative number 9.4
Caption: None
Interior of four bowls, [1870s - 1930s] 3 18
View Image
Negative number 7.4
Caption: None
Interior of four bowls, [1870s - 1930s] 3 18
View Image
Negative number 6.7
Caption: None
Interior of four bowls, [1870s - 1930s] 3 18
View Image
Negative number 4.2
Caption: None
Eight bowls, [1870s - 1930s] 3 18
View Image
Negative number 10.7
Caption: None
Interior of twelve bowls, [1870s - 1930s] 3 18
View Image
Negative number 8.3
Caption: None
Jar, bowl, and ewer, [1870s - 1930s] 3 19
View Image
Negative number 59.4
Caption: None
Ewer, two jugs, and two bowls, [1870s - 1930s] 3 19
View Image
Negative number 11.2
Caption: None
Three bowls and two jars, [1870s - 1930s] 3 19
View Image
Negative number 10.12
Caption: None
Dish, jug, and bowl, [1870s - 1930s] 3 19
View Image
Negative number 8.4
Caption: None
Jar and interior of two bowls, [1870s - 1930s] 3 19
View Image
Negative number 6.9
Caption: None
Two-handled jar and interiors of two bowls, [1870s - 1930s] 3 19
View Image
Negative number 5.6
Caption: None
Jar and interiors of three bowls [1870s - 1930s] 3 19
View Image
Negative number 7.10
Caption: None
Jar, bowl, and ewer, [1870s - 1930s] 3 19
View Image
Negative number 8.2
Caption: None
Two ewers and a bowl, [1870s - 1930s] 3 19
View Image
Negative number 9.9
Caption: None
Three jars and two ewers, [1870s - 1930s] 3 19
View Image
Negative number 11.6
Caption: None
Ewer and jug, [1870s - 1930s] 3 20
View Image
Negative number 9.1
Caption: None
Bowl, jar, and jug, [1870s - 1930s] 3 20
View Image
Negative number 6.8
Caption: None
Bowl, two ewers, and two jars, [1870s - 1930s] 3 20
View Image
Negative number 6.6
Caption: None
Two jars and bowl, [1870s - 1930s] 3 20
View Image
Negative number 59.10
Caption: None
Jug, two jars, bowl, and animal head, [1870s - 1930s] 3 20
View Image
Negative number 11.4
Caption: None
Exterior of jar, [1870s - 1930s] 3 20
View Image
Negative number 4.1
Caption: None
Exterior of jar, [1870s - 1930s] 3 20
View Image
Negative number 7.7
Caption: None
Jar and bowl with inscriptions. [1870s - 1930s] 3 20
View Image
Negative number 7.9
Caption: None
Jar, [1870s - 1930s] 3 20
View Image
Negative number 9.5
Caption: None
Vase, [1870s - 1930s] 3 20
View Image
Negative number 5.4
Caption: None
Three jars, [1870s - 1930s] 3 21
View Image
Negative number 11.7
Caption: None
Ewer and four jars, [1870s - 1930s] 3 21
View Image
Negative number 11.8
Caption: None
Low relief jar with inscription, [1870s - 1930s] 3 21
View Image
Negative number 8.1
Caption: None
Low relief jar with inscription, [1870s - 1930s] 3 21
View Image
Negative number 8.7
Caption: None
Note: Close view of jar depicted in negative number 8.1.
Jar with low relief, [1870s - 1930s] 3 21
View Image
Negative number 11.5
Caption: None
Jar with low relief, [1870s - 1930s] 3 21
View Image
Negative number 11.1 (1252)
Caption: None
Ewer, jar with low relief, and vessel, [1870s - 1930s] 3 21
View Image
Negative number 26.5
Caption: None
Ewer, [1870s - 1930s] 3 21
View Image
Negative number 10.3
Caption: None
Ewer, [1870s - 1930s] 3 21
View Image
Negative number 7.5
Caption: None
Figural jar, [1870s - 1930s] 3 21
View Image
Negative number 11.9
Caption: None
Figural ewer, [1870s - 1930s] 3 22
View Image
Negative number 4.4
Caption: None
Figural ewer, [1870s - 1930s] 3 22
View Image
Negative number 4.9
Caption: None
Silver and gold ewer, [1870s - 1930s] 3 22
View Image
Negative number 5.2
Caption: None
Note: Now housed at the Museum fslamische Kunst in Berlin.
Multi-handled jar, [1870s - 1930s] 3 22
View Image
Negative number 9.8
Caption: None
Multi-handled jar, [1870s - 1930s] 3 22
View Image
Negative number 4.8
Caption: None
Two-handled jar, [1870s - 1930s] 3 22
View Image
Negative number 5.1
Caption: None
Jar and multi-handled jar, [1870s - 1930s] 3 22
View Image
Negative number 4.7
Caption: None
Ornate teapot and sugar bowl, [1870s - 1930s] 3 22
View Image
Negative number 10.2
Caption: None
Note: See also negative number 58.11 (Box 3 Folder 22.)
Ornate teapot and sugar bowl, [1870s - 1930s] 3 22
View Image
Negative number 58.11
Caption: None
Note: See also negative number 10.2.
Subseries 1.1.68: Arts - Figurines and incense burners, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Ceramic head, [1870s - 1930s] 3 23
View Image
Negative number 8.8
Caption: None
Statue of woman and child, [1870s - 1930s] 3 23
View Image
Negative number 59.7
Caption: None
Note: Front view.
Statue of woman and child, [1870s - 1930s] 3 23
View Image
Negative number 4.11
Caption: None
Note: Back view.
Statue of a man, [1870s - 1930s] 3 23
View Image
Negative number 59.9
Caption: None
Ceramic elephant, [1870s - 1930s] 3 23
View Image
Negative number 10.10
Caption: None
Note: Side view.
Ceramic elephant, [1870s - 1930s] 3 23
View Image
Negative number 10.13
Caption: None
Note: Front view.
Horse, [1870s - 1930s] 3 23
View Image
Negative number 10.4
Caption: None
Horse, [1870s - 1930s] 3 23
View Image
Negative number 7.11
Caption: None
Ram, [1870s - 1930s] 3 23
View Image
Negative number 9.10
Caption: None
Bull's head, [1870s - 1930s] 3 23
View Image
Negative number 7.12
Caption: None
Lion's head, [1870s - 1930s] 3 23
View Image
Negative number 10.11
Caption: None
Incense burner, [1870s - 1930s] 3 23
View Image
Negative number 4.13
Caption: None
Subseries 1.1.69: Arts - Ivories, [1870s 1930s]
Box Folder
Carved ivory piece, [1870s - 1930s] 3 24
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Negative number 51.17
Caption: None
Subseries 1.1.70: Arts - paintings, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Sacrifice of Isaac, [1870s - 1930s] 3 25
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Negative number 36.13
Caption: None
Note: Oval painting signed by Sevr[uguin?]
Western style painting, [1870s - 1930s] 3 25
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Negative number 61.1
Caption: None
Painting from Chihil Situn, [1870s - 1930s] 3 25
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Negative number 27.4
Caption: Painting from Chihil Situn
Painting of a man on an animal skin, [1870s - 1930s] 3 25
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Negative number 33.11
Caption: None
Bahram Gur Hunts with Azada, [1870s - 1930s] 3 25
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Negative number 40.7
Caption: None
Note: Photo of bound, illustrated page of , Shahnama.
Painting is now housed at the Harvard University Art Museums.
Two bound illustrated manuscript pages from, Shahnama, [1870s - 1930s] 3 25
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Negative number 41.8
Caption: Miniatures from, Shahnameh
Two bound, illustrated manuscript pages, [1870s - 1930s] 3 25
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Negative number 46.14
Caption: None
Subseries 1.1.71: Arts - Prints and drawings, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Ayinakhana (Hall of Mirrors), Isfahan, [1870s - 1930s] 3 26
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Negative number 12.1
Caption: None
Note: Engraving by Pascal Coste from, Monuments Modernes de la Perse, Paris: 1867.
Masjid-i Shah (Royal Mosque), Isfahan, [1870s - 1930s] 3 26
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Negative number 12.2
Caption: None
Note: From a lithograph.
Madrasa-i Shah Husein, Isfahan, [1870s - 1930s] 3 26
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Negative number 12.3
Caption: None
Note: Exterior view of mosque.
Note: Engraving by Pascal Coste from, Monuments Modernes de la Perse, Paris: 1867.
Patio and veranda of the Marma Throne, Gulistan Palace, Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 3 26
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Negative number 12.4
Caption: None
Note: Engraving by Pascal Coste from, Monuments Modernes de la Perse, Paris: 1867.
Patio and veranda of Marmar Throne, Gulistan Palace, Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 3 26
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Negative number 12.5
Caption: None
Note: Lithograph by Eugene Flandin from, Voyage en Perse/Perse Moderne/Eugen Fandin et Pasca Coste, Paris: 1844-1854.
Panorama of powder factory outside of Tehran, [1870s - 1930s] 3 26
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Negative number 12.6
Caption: None
Note: Lithograph by Eugene Flandin in, Voyage en Perse?Perse Moderne/Eugen Flandin et Pascal Coste, Paris: 1844-1854.
Old Dowlate Gate, [1870s - 1930s] 3 26
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Negative number 12.7
Caption: None
Note: Lithograph by Eugene Flandin from, Voyage en Perse/Perse Moderne/ Eugen Flandin et Pascal Coste, Paris: 1844-1854.
Palace of Qasri-Qajar, [1870s - 1930s] 3 26
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Negative number 12.8
Caption: Kasri Kajar
Note: Lithograph by Eugene Flandin from, Voyage en Perse/ Perse Moderne/ Eugen Flandin et Pascal Coste, Paris: 1844-1854.
Print of musicians, [1870s - 1930s] 3 26
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Negative number 12.9
Caption: None
Note: Signed by Euhousset.
Seated women with a lyre, inside a harem, [1870s - 1930s] 3 26
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Negative number 12.10
Caption: None
Note: Print from a book.
Print of a seated woman inside a harem, [1870s - 1930s] 3 26
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Negative number 12.11
Caption: None
Print of men eating food in a room, [1870s - 1930s] 3 27
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Negative number 25.5
Caption: None
Note: Captioned, Dejeuner Persan.
Illustration of a large, Persian man, [1923 - 1930s] 3 27
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Negative number 25.5
Caption: None
Note: Signed by MAK and dated 1923, Tehran.
Illustration of man viewing a woman with a child, [1923 - 1930s] 3 27
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Negative number 25.6
Caption: None
Note: Signed by MAK and dated 1923, Tehran.
Illustration showing men performing ghama-zani (a form of self-flagellation), [1923 - 1930s] 3 27
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Negative number 25.7
Caption: None
Note: Possibly for a passion play. Signed by MAK and dated 1923, Tehran.
Illustration of woman in carriage and man with bow, [1923 - 1930s] 3 27
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Negative number 25.8
Caption: None.
Note: Possibly for passion play. Signed by MAK and dated 1923, Tehran.
Illustration of men performing self-flagellation, [1870s - 1930s] 3 27
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Negative number 25.9
Caption: None
Note: Possibly for passion play. Illustration by MAK.
Illustration of a woman, [1924 - 1930s] 3 27
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Negative number 25.10
Caption: None
Note: Signed by MAK and dated 1924, Tehran. Round picture.
Illustration of a procession, [1923 - 1930s] 3 27
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Negative number 25.11
Caption: None
Note: Possibly for passion play. Signed by MAK and dated 1923, Tehran.
Illustration of woman and servant[?], [1923 - 1930s] 3 27
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Negative number 25.12
Caption: None
Note: Possibly for passion play. Signed by MAK and dated 1923, Tehran.
Illustration of a procession[?]m [1923, - 1930s] 3 27
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Negative number 25.13
Caption: None
Note: Possibly for passion play. Signed by MAK and dated 1923, Tehran
Subseries 1.2: Myron Bement Smith Collection - Gelatin silver prints donated by Joseph Upton, [1870s - 1928]
Joseph Upton purchased 66 original gelatin silver prints from Antoin Sevruguin in Tehran in 1928. According to the official minutes of the Committee for Islamic Culture (October 24, 1953), Upon donated these prints to the Islamic Archives.
The prints measure from 16.5 x 22 cm. to a slightly larger size of 17.5 x 23 cm. The verso of most prints include a handwritten caption in French. Those captions are listed in the following item list. The spelling of the captions on the verso of the prints are transcribed below as closely as possible. A "note" field includes further clarification or information supplied by the archivist. Some images depict one or more numbers inked on the negative. These numbers are recorded in the following item list.
The materials in this subseries are arranged according to the following subject arrangement:
Subject Arrangement
Royalty
People – Military – Soldiers
People – Daily activities
People – Towns and villages
People – Punishment
People – Religious
People – Portraits
People – Women
Architecture
Landscapes
Subseries 1.2.1: Royalty, [1870s - 1928]
Box Folder
Fath Ali Shah (reigned 1797-1834), [1870s - 1928] 4 1
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Caption: Fatah Shah
Note: Photograph of art work.
Note: See also Box 1 Folder 1.
Number inked on negative: (742)
Mirza Yusuf Ashtiyani, the mustawfi al-mamalik, [1880s - 1928] 4 1
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Caption: Mostiof Mamaleh grand Vizier
Note: Photograph of art work ca. early 1880s.
Note:See also negative number 41.2 (Box 1 Folder 9.)
Zahir al-dawla, [1870s - 1928] 4 1
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Caption: Maitre des Cérémonies
Note: Nasir al-din Shah's son-in-law and master of ceremonies.
Note: See also negative number 49.3 (Box 1 Folder 9.)
Number inked on negative: (675)
Mirza Abdul Vahab Khan Nizam al-mulk, [1870s - 1928] 4 1
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Caption: Vieux ministre
Number inked on negative: (83)
Palace reception, [1870s - 1928] 4 1
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Caption: Invitation chez le Sahah
Number inked on negative: (605)
Subseries 1.2.2: People - military - soldiers, [1870s - 1928]
Box Folder
7 armed soldiers and small crowd of spectators, [1870s - 1928] 4 2
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Caption: Poste persane
Number inked on negative: (243)
Regiment of soldiers, [1870s - 1928] 4 2
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Caption: Regiment Lore
Number inked on negative: (134)
Subseries 1.2.3: People - Daily Activities - Agricultural laborers, [1870s - 1928]
Box Folder
Workers harvesting rice, [1870s - 1928] 4 3
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Caption: la culture du riz
Number inked on negative:(369)
Peasant scene, [1870s - 1928] 4 3
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Caption: Maison paysane a Mayandéran (?)
Number inked on negative: (114)
Note: Man guiding cow threshing grain and a woman sorting grain. In Mazandaran province.
Shepherd, [1870s - 1928] 4 3
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Caption: Le berger persan
Number inked on negative: (506)
Note: See also negative number 32.4 (Box 1 Folder 39.)
Fishermen at a landing, [1870s - 1928] 4 3
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Caption: Pahléir(?)
Subseries 1.2.4: People - Daily activities - Occupations, [1870s - 1928]
Box Folder
Two men washing clothes on a rock, [1870s - 1928] 4 3
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Caption: Lavage du _(?) à Ispahan
Number inked on negative: (499)
Girls weaving a carpet, [1870s - 1928] 4 3
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Caption: None
Number inked on negative: (491)
Note: See also negative number 37.5 (Box 1 Folder 40) for comparative view.
Three water carriers, [1870s - 1928] 4 3
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Caption: Porteurs d'eau au village
Mendicant women, [1870s - 1928] 4 3
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Caption: Les Bohémiennes
Number inked on negative:(36)
Lion keepers, [1870s - 1928] 4 3
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Caption: Loutis et Lion
Number inked on negative:(428)
Subseries 1.2.5: People – Daily activities - Street vendors and market scenes, [1870s - 1928]
Box Folder
Portrait of a merchant, [1870s - 1928] 4 3
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Caption: Marchand perse
Money dealer or "sarraf", [1870s - 1928] 4 3
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Caption: Banquier
Number inked on negative:(1057)
Money dealers, [1870s - 1928] 4 3
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Caption: Banquier
Number inked on negative: (110)
Ice cream vendor, [1870s - 1928] 4 3
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Caption: La Glace
Number inked on negative:(139)
Note: Staged in Drill Square in Tehran.
See also Box 5 Folder 1.
Luggage bearers, [1870s - 1928] 4 3
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Caption: Brocanteurs
Subseries 1.2.6: People - Daily activities - Caravans, [1870s - 1928]
Box Folder
Caravan, [1870s - 1928] 4 5
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Caption: Caravane
Number inked on negative: (177)
People and animals outside a caravansarai, [1870s - 1928] 4 5
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Caption: None
Number inked on negative:(30?)
Men and horses in a caravansarai, [1870s - 1928] 4 5
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Caption: None
Number inked on negative:(808)
Subseries 1.2.7: People - Towns and villages, [1870s - 1928]
Box Folder
Group of men in Isfahan, [1870s - 1928] 4 6
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Caption: Isfahān
Number inked on negative: (43)
Men outside a hut, [1870s - 1928] 4 6
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Caption: None
Number inked on negative:(461)
People and a village along water, [1870s - 1928] 4 6
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Caption: Mya____(?)
Number inked on negative: (508).
Subseries 1.2.8: People - Punishment, [1870s - 1928]
Box Folder
A boy receiving punishment with small crowd of male spectators, [1870s - 1928] 4 7
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Caption: La punition a l'atelier de broderie
Note: See also Box 1 (Sevruguin) Folder 20 for comparative view.
Subseries 1.2.9: People - Religious, [1870s - 1928]
Box Folder
Dervish, [1870s - 1928] 4 8
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Caption: Derviche
Dervish, [1870s - 1928] 4 8
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Caption: Derviche
Number inked on negative: (508)
Dervish, [1870s - 1928] 4 8
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Caption: Derviche nègre
Number inked on negative: (37)
Dervish or cleric [?], [1870s - 1928] 4 8
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Caption: Mollah
See also negative number 56.2 (Box 1 Folder 33.)
Ta'ziya performance, [1870s - 1928] 4 8
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Caption: Le théatre religieuse
Tekiyeh, [1870s - 1928] 4 8
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Caption: None
Note: Temporary theatre for religious mourning ceremony for the martyrdom of Imam Hussayn (640 AD).
Subseries 1.2.10: People - Portraits, [1870s - 1928]
Box Folder
Nur Mahmud, [1870s - 1928] 4 9
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Caption: My[----?]
Number inked on negative: (15)
Note: Celebrated Jewish doctor in Tehran.
Nur (seated center with book) and family, patients, servants, and others, [1870s - 1928] 4 9
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Caption: Famille Juive
Number inked on negative:(50).
Note: Pictured in interior courtyard of Nur Mahmud's house in Tehran.
Persian school, [1870s - 1928] 4 9
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Caption: Ecole perse
Number inked on negative:(691) .
Subseries 1.2.11: People - Women - Armenians, [1870s - 1928]
Box Folder
Armenian girls in Urmia, [1870s - 1928] 4 10
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Caption: Filles arméniennes a Urmiah
Armenian woman, [1870s - 1928] 4 10
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Caption: Dame arménne
Number inked on negative: (334).
Note: See also negative number 46.15 (Box 1 Folder 27)
Subseries 1.2.12: People – Women - Jews, [1870s - 1928]
Box Folder
Jewish village girl in elaborate costume, [1870s - 1928] 4 11
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Caption: Juive
Two tribal women, [1870s - 1928] 4 11
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Caption: Juives
Number inked on negative:(373), (1230).
Subseries 1.2.13: People – Women - Kurds, [1870s - 1928]
Box Folder
Kurdish woman in front of a wall with graffiti, [1870s - 1928] 4 12
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Caption: Kurdesse
Number inked on negative: (214).
Kurdish woman, [1870s - 1928] 4 12
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Caption: Kurdesse
Number inked on negative:(157).
Kurdish woman, [1870s - 1928] 4 12
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Caption: Kurdesse
Number inked on negative:(208).
Girl carrying a water vessel, [1870s - 1928] 4 12
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Caption: Kurdesse
Number inked on negative: (208).
Kurdish, Jewish woman reclining on carpets, [1870s - 1928] 4 12
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Caption: Juive
Number inked on negative: (32).
Kurdish [or Armenian?] woman in elaborate costume, [1870s - 1928] 4 12
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Caption: Kurdesse
Number inked on negative: (442).
Two Kurdish women, [1870s - 1928] 4 12
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Caption: Juives
Number inked on negative:(523).
Subseries 1.2.14: People – Women - Persians, [1870s - 1928]
Box Folder
Iranian woman dressed in a ballerina costume, [1870s - 1928] 4 13
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Caption: Balerine persane
Iranian woman, [1870s - 1928] 4 13
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Caption: Dame persane
Zoroastrian [?] woman, [1870s - 1928] 4 13
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Caption: Dame guetre[?]
Subseries 1.2.15: People – Women – Harems, [1870s - 1896]
Box Folder
Harem fantasy with prostitute [?] and servant, [1870s - 1928] 4 14
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Caption: Dans le harem
Number inked on negative:(835)
Subseries 1.2.16: Architecture, [1870s - 1928]
Box Folder
Ala al-dawla Street (Firdawsi Avenue) in Tehran, [1870s - 1928] 4 15
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Caption: Avenue Alla es Dovleh à Teheran
Number inked on negative: (100).
Note: View with snow.
Note: See also negative number 34.5 (Box 2 Folder 30.)
Street scene with horse-pulled trollies and people, [1870s - 1928] 4 15
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Caption: Sar tchechmé (ancienne rue de Teheran)
Number inked on negative: (262)
Gas Street in Teheran, [1870s - 1928] 4 15
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Caption: La Rue du Gaz
Number inked on negative:(255)
Note: Street named after the Gas Lam Factory (Usine à Gaz) established in 1877 in Tehran.
House of Parliament in Tehran, [1870s - 1928] 4 15
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Caption: Le Parlement
Note: Exterior court view.
The barracks at the Square of Canons in Tehran, [1870s - 1928] 4 15
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Caption: La place des canons (la caserne en 1919)
Residence of an American diplomat [?], [1870s - 1928] 4 15
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Caption: None
Number inked on negative:(11).
Note: See also negative number 26.10 (Box 2 Folder 27.)
View of town and rooftops, [1870s - 1928] 4 15
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Caption: Qurmi[ah?]
Number inked on negative: (42).
View of Shushtar, including a bridge, [1870s - 1928] 4 15
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Caption: Shushtar
Number inked on negative:(493).
Landscape with city [Sultanabad?] view in distance, [1870s - 1928] 4 15
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Caption: Soultanabad
Number inked on negative:(400).
Ruins of bridge and barrages at Dizful, [1870s - 1928] 4 15
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Caption: Chouchtar
Number inked on negative: (234).
Note: See also negative number 30.6 (Box 2 Folder 19.)
Rural bridge in Rasht, [1870s - 1928] 4 15
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Caption: Recht - le pire ba[z?]ar
Note: See also negative 46.18 (Box 2 Folder 19.)
Subseries 1.2.17: Landscapes, [1870s - 1928]
Box Folder
Safid Rud valley, [1870s - 1928] 4 16
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Caption: Safid Roud
Note: See also negative number 26.3 (Box 3 Folder 11.)
Two men seated on a ridge, [1870s - 1928] 4 16
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Caption: Nocturne
Western traveler and other men at a hut [rest stop?], [1870s - 1928] 4 16
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Caption: En route de Recht
Men seated in front of a hut [rest stop?], [1870s - 1928] 4 16
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Caption: En route de Recht
Subseries 1.3: Myron Bement Smith Collection - Gelatin Silver Prints, [1870s - 1934]
According to the official minutes of the fourth meeting of the Committee for Islamic Culture, held on September 15, 1951, Myron Bment Smith viewed and ordered prints of part of Sevruguin's negatives when he visited Sevruguin's shop in 1934. This subseries is composed of 82 gelatin silver prints. The prints are stamped "Photographie Sevruguin" and the photographer's name in Persian. Nearly all images concern monuments and architecture. Smith stamped and annotated the verso to record information (such as country, district, town, monument, and detail) about the site depicted.
The prints appear to be relatively uniform in size with an exterior measurement of approximately 18 x 24 cm. and an interior image are of 16.5 x 22.5 cm.
A "note" field includes further clarification or information supplied by the archivist. Some images depict one or more numbers inked on the negative. These numbers are recorded in the following item list.
The materials in this subseries are arranged according to the following subject arrangement:
Subject Arrangement
People
Architecture – Pre-Islamic
Royalty – Residences – Gulistan Palace (Tehran)
Architecture
Landscapes
Subseries 1.3.1: People, [1870s - 1934]
Box Folder
Ice cream vendor, ca. 1900 5 1
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Males viewing moving pictures in an apparatus commonly known as a Shahr-i farang, ca. 1900 5 1
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Note: Men viewing magnified images of European cities.
See also Box 4 Folder 4
Bazaar in front of the mosque of Shah Sultan Hussein in Qazvin, ca. 1900 5 1
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Number(s) inked on negative: (837)
Note: See also negative numbers 15.12 and 48.5 (Box 3 Folder 1) for comparative images.
Pilgrims at the Shrine of Najar, Iraq, ca. 1900 5 1
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Religious dignitaries in front of a shrine, ca. 1900 5 1
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Note: See also negative number 41.3 (Box 3 Folder 1.)
Clerics gathered in portal, ca. 1900 5 1
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Subseries 1.3.2: Architecture - Pre-Islamic - Naqsh-i Rajab, ca. 1900
Box Folder
Naqsh-i Rajab, relief IV, ca. 1900 5 2
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Note: Depicts bust and inscription of Kartir, the high priest.
Note: See also negative number 38.11 (Box 2 Folder 9.)
Subseries 1.3.3: Pre-Islamic – Naqsh-i Rustam, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Naqsh-i Rustam, three tombs, ca. 1900 5 3
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Note: View of façade.
Naqsh-i Rustam, tomb of Xerxes, ca. 1900 5 3
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Note: Façade.
Note: See also negative number 40.10 (Box 2 Folder 10.)
Naqsh-i Rustam, tomb of Darius I, ca. 1900 5 3
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Note: Middle register, seen from the side.
Note: See also negative number 38.9 (Box 2 Folder 10.)
Bishapur, Sasanian rock relief depicting victory of Shapur 1 over Valerian, ca. 1900 5 3
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Bishapur, Sasanian rock relief depicting Bahram II's subjection of Arab tribes, ca. 1900 5 3
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Note: See also negative number 31.11 (Box 2 Folder 12.)
Naqsh-i Rustam rock relief II depicting the triumph of Shapur I over Valerian, ca. 1900 5 3
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Note: Sevruguin in foreground.
Note: See also negative number 38.6 (Box 2 Folder 11.)
Naqsh-i Rustam rock relief I depicting the investiture of Ardashir I by Hormizd and rock relief II depicting Bahram II with his court, ca. 1900 5 3
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Note: See also negative number 29.10 (Box 2 Folder 11.)
Naqsh-i Rustam, rock relief IX depicting equestrian combat, ca. 1900 5 4
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Note: Rock relief IX attributed to Shapur II.
Note: See also negative number 31.11 (Box 2 Folder 11.)
Naqsh-i Rustam, rock relief IV depicting the investiture of Narseh by Anahita, ca. 1900 5 4
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Note: See also negative number 47.3 (Box 2 Folder 11.)
Naqsh-i Rustam, fire altars, ca. 1900 5 4
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Note: See also negative number 39.4 (Box 2 Folder 10.)
Naqsh-i Rustam, Achaemenian grave tower, ca. 1900 5 4
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Number inked on negative: (570)
Subseries 1.3.4: Architecture – Pre-Islamic – Pasargadae, ca. 1900
Box Folder
Tomb of Cyrus, ca. 1900 5 5
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Note: Sevruguin's camera crew on site.
Reverse angle of other image of Pasargadae in this box.
Tomb of Cyrus, ca. 1900 5 5
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Number(s) inked on negative: (474)
Subseries 1.3.5: Architecture – Pre-Islamic – Persepolis, ca. 1900
Box Folder
Terrace viewed from northwest corner, ca. 1900 5 6
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Note: Columns of Apadana visible on the right.
Note: See also negative number 31.11 (Box 2 Folder 12.)
Northern wall of Throne Hall, ca. 1900 5 6
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Note: Viewed from the east.
Note: See also negative number 38.8 (Box 2 Folder 13.)
Gate of Xerxes, ca. 1900 5 6
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Note: With guardian bulls of western doorway.
Note: See also negative number 31.9 (Box 2 Folder 13.)
Gate of Xerxes, ca. 1900 5 6
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Note: See also negative number 38.3 (Box 2 Folder 13.)
Gateway, doorway of treasury, ca. 1900 5 6
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Number inked on negative (894)
Council Hall, ca. 1900 5 6
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Note: King and two attendants with parasol. Ahuramazda symbol on west door jamb of southern doorway of main hall. Viewed from the east.
Note: See also negative number 38.1 (Box 2 Folder 14.)
Throne hall, ca. 1900 5 6
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Note: Northern wall, western doorway, east jam. Relief depicts audience and guards.
Note: See also negative number 30.12 (Box 2 Folder 13.)
Throne hall, ca. 1900 5 6
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Note: Northern wall, eastern doorway, west jamb. Relief depicts audience and guards.
Note: See also negative number 56.6 (Box 2 Folder 13.)
Apadana, ca. 1900 5 6
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Note: Northern stairway, central panel. Guards and trilingual inscription of Xerxes. Viewed from the southwest.
Note: See also negative number 42.7 (Box 2 Folder 14.)
Palace of Darius, ca. 1900 5 6
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Note: See also negative number 29.7 (Box 2 Folder 14.)
Subseries 1.3.6 Architecture – Pre-Islamic – Taq-i Bustan, [1870s - 1928]
Box Folder
Cave of Shapur III, ca. 1900 5 7
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Note: View from water.
Note: See also negative number 39.9 (Box 2 Folder 15.)
Cave of Shapur III, ca. 1900 5 7
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Note: View of rock relief.
Note: See also negative number 47.4 (Box 2 Folder 15.)
Cave of Shapur III, ca. 1900 5 7
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Note: Detail of rock relief depicting a royal deer hunt.
Note: See also negative number 39.8 (Box 2 Folder 15.)
Cave of Shapur III, ca. 1900 5 7
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Note: Detail of rock relief depicting a royal deer hunt.
Note: See also negative number 52.10 (Box 2 Folder 15.)
Cave of Shapur III, ca. 1900 5 7
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Number inked on negative (812)
Note: Rock relief depicting royal boar hung, Khusrau II in boat.
Note: See also negative 39.7 (Box 2 Folder 15.)
Rock relief depicting investiture of Ardashir II by Hormizd and Mithra, ca. 1900 5 7
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Number inked on negative (816)
Note: Front view.
Rock relief depicting investiture of Ardashir II, ca. 1900 5 7
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Note: Side view.
Subseries 1.3.7: Architecture – Pre-Islamic –Taq-i Girra, [1870s - 1928]
Box Folder
Stone structure in hills, ca. 1900 5 8
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Subseries 1.3.8: Architecture – Pre-Islamic – Rock inscriptions, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Ganjnama (Treasure Book), ca. 1900 5 9
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Note: Two cuneiform inscriptions carved on Mount Alvand near Hamadan. A Bakhitayari stands guard.
Subseries 1.3.9: Architecture – Qajar – Rock reliefs, [1870s - 1930s]
Box Folder
Relief depicting Fath Ali Shah, ca. 1900 5 10
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Number inked on negative (817)
Note: Above the spring Chasmayi Ali, Sorsoreh Mountain, Rayy.
Note: See also negative 0.12 (Box 2 Folder 17.)
Relief depicting Fath Ali Shah hunting, ca. 1900 5 10
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Number inked on negative (326)
Note: At Sorsoreh Mountain, Rayy.
Relief above the spring Chasmayi Ali, ca. 1900 5 10
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Number inked on negative
Note: [At Sorsoreh Mountain, Rayy?]
Subseries 1.3.10 – Royalty – Residences – Gulistan Palace (Tehran), ca. 1900
Box Folder
Imarat-i badgir (Tower of the Winds), ca. 1900 5 11
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Note: Part of the Gulistan Palace complex.
Note: See also negative number 29.11 (Box 1 Folder 11.)
Dari-Ahmasi, ca. 1900 5 11
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Note: Part of the Gulistan Palace complex.
Note:See also negative number 28.2 (Box 1 Folder 11.)
Salon and thrones, ca. 1900 5 11
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Note: See also negative number 49.6 (Box 1 Folder 11.)
Subseries 1.3.11: Architecture - Mosques and shrines, ca. 1900
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Shrine of Shaikh Safi in Ardabil, ca. 1900 5 12
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Number inked on negative:(274)
Note:See also negative number 36.8 (Box 3 Folder 2.)
Masjid-i Kabud (the Blue Mosque) in Tabriz, ca. 1900 5 12
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Note: Built in 1450 during the rule of Jahanshah Qaraquyunlu.
Masjid-i Kabud (the Blue Mosque) in Tabriz, [1870s - 1934] 5 12
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Number inked on negative:(507)
Note: View of large iwan.
Note: See also negative number 46.19 (Box 3 Folder 2.)
Masjid-i Kabud (the Blue Mosque) in Tabriz, ca. 1900 5 12
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Masjid-i Kabud (the Blue Mosque) in Tabriz, ca. 1900 5 12
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Gunbad-i Alayvian in Hamadan, ca. 1900 5 12
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Note: See also negative number 36.6 (Box 3 Folder 3.)
Minaret of Masjid-i Juma (Great Mosque) in Damghan, [1870s - 1934] 5 12
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Note: See also negative number 31.8 (Box 3 Folder 1.)
Mosque of Gawhar Shad in Mashad, ca. 1900 5 12
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Note: See also negative number 3.4 (Box 3 Folder 2.)
Mosque of Gawhar Shad in Mashad, ca. 1900 5 12
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Note: View of dome and minaret tops.
Note: See also negative number 32.2 (Box 3 Folder 2.)
Imamzadeh in Qum, ca. 1900 5 13
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Number inked on negative:(107)
Note: See also negative number 31.3 (Box 3 Folder 4.)
Cemetary in Qum, ca. 1900 5 13
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Note: Shrine of Fatima al-Masuma in the background.
Shrine of Fatima al-Masuma in Qum, ca. 1900 5 13
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Note: North façade.
Note: See also negative number 53.10 (Box 3 Folder 3.)
Shrine of Fatima al-Masum in Qum, ca. 1900 5 13
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Note: North façade.
Note: See also negative number 35.3 (Box 3 Folder 3.)
Shrine of Fatima al-Masuma in Qum, ca. 1900 5 13
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Number inked on negative: (66)
Note: See also negative number 35.3 (Box 3 Folder 3.)
Shrine of Fatima al-Masuma in Qum, ca. 1900 5 13
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Number inked on negative: (645)
Note: View of courtyard.
Unidentified mosque, ca. 1900 5 13
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Number inked on negative: (606)
Rear view of a mosque [Kashan?], ca. 1900 5 13
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Number inked on negative: (167)
Note: See also negative number 33.5 (Box 3 Folder 3.)
Shrine near Baghdad , ca. 1900 13 5
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Number inked on negative: (663)
Note: [Alid sanctuary in Kazimayn?]
Note: See also negative number 31.8 (Box 3 Folder 1.)
Subseries 1.3.12: Architecture - City gates, [1870s - 1928]
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[Citadel in Tehran or city gate in Shiraz?], [1870s - 1928] 5 14
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Note: See also negative number 44.9 (Box 2 Folder 3.)
Subseries 1.3.13: Architecture - Rooftops, ca. 1900
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Aerial view of domed rooftops in Kashan, ca. 1900 5 15
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Note: See also negative numbers 49.5 and 0.13 (Box 3 Folder 6.)
Subseries 1.3.14: Architecture - Ruins, [1870s - 1928]
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Palace in Bagh-i Chashma, Ashraf, ca. 1900 5 16
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Palace in Bagh-i Sahi-i Zaman, Ashraf, ca. 1900 5 16
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Taq-i Kisra, palace at Ctesiphon, Iraq, [1870s - 1928] 5 16
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Subseries 1.3.15: Architecture - Tombs, [1870s - 1928]
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Gunbad-i Kabud, Maragheh, [1870s - 1930s] 5 17
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Note: Blue dome, said to be the grave of Hulaku Khan's wives,
Tomb of Emir Arghun's daughter, Salmas, ca. 1900 5 17
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Note: Tomb destroyed in an earthquake ca. 1931.
See also negative number 47.2 (Box 3 Folder 4.)
Shrine of Shaikh Safi, Ardabil, ca. 1900 5 17
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Number inked on negative: (187)
Note: Exterior view of tomb chamber, south façade.
Tomb of Hafix, Shiraz, ca. 1900 5 17
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Number inked on negative: (832)
Tomb of Ssaadi, near Shiraz, ca. 1900 5 17
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Tomb, Shiraz, ca. 1900 5 18
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Note: Northern view to Allah Akbar Gate.
Naqsh-i Rustam, Tomb of Darius I, ca. 1900 5 18
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Number inked on negative: (61)
Note: Northeast vault.
Note: See also negative number 29.6 (Box 3 Folder 4.)
Tomb of Esther and Mordechai, Hamadan, ca. 1900 5 18
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Haruniya mausoleum, Tus, ca. 1900 5 18
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Note: See also negative number 26.9 (Box 3 Folder 4.)
Shrine of Bayazid al-Bistami, Bustam, ca. 1900 5 18
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Shrine of Bayazid al-Bistami, Bustam, ca. 1900 5 18
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Shrine of Bayazid al-Bistami , Bustam, ca. 1900 5 18
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Number inked on negative: (192)
Note: View of minaret.
Note: See also negative number 36.7 (Box 3 Folder 4.)
Subseries 1.3.16: Landscape, ca. 1900
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Bridge on road to Rasht, ca. 1900. 5 19
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Note: See also negative number 46.5 (Box 2 Folder 19.)
German embassy property, Gulahek, ca. 1900 5 19
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Note: View of path by stream.
Note: See also negative number 46.2 (Box 2 Folder 30.)
Series 2: Antoin Sevruguin Photographs, 1870s - 1930s
The items in this series come from the Antoin Sevruguin Photographs collection. Donated to the Freer Gallery Art by Jay Bisno in 1985, the prints measure from 10.5 x 14.5 to 15.5 x 21 cm. 14 prints include captions, in French. These captions are listed in the following container list in the "caption" field. A "note" field includes further clarification or information supplied by the archivist. Some images depict one or more numbers inked on the negative. The number(s) are recorded in the following item list.
The materials in this subseries are arranged according to the following subject arrangement:Subject Arrangement:RoyaltyPeopleExecutions, criminals, punishmentArchitecture
Subseries 2.1: Royalty, 1870s - 1896
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Nasir al-din Shah in front of the Peacock Throne, 1870s - 1930s 1 (Sevruguin) 1
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Number inked on negative: (628)
Caption: Nasr-i Din Shah
Note: See also negative number 31.1 (Box 1 Folder 2.)
Funeral bier of Nasir al-din Shah, 1896 1 (Sevruguin) 2
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Number inked on negative: (368)
Caption: Catafalque de [____?] Shah
Portrait of Muzaffar al-din Shah, 1870s - 1930s 1 (Sevruguin) 3
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Number inked on negative: (600)
Caption: None
Muzaffar al-din Shah (seated) with the Amin al-sultan (right) and an unidentified man, 1870s - 1930s 1 (Sevruguin) 4
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Caption: None
Note: See also negative number 51.6 (Box 1 Folder 2.)
Standing portrait of the Amin al-sultan, 1870s - 1930s 1 (Sevruguin) 5
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Number inked on negative: (83)
Caption: [illegible]
Note: See also negative number 51.6 (Box 1 Folder 2.)
Subseries 2.2: People, 1870s - 1930s
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Seated portrait of a dervish, 1870s - 1930s 1 (Sevruguin) 6
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Number inked on negative: (639)
Caption: Derviche
"Note:" See also box 1, folder 33.
Dervish and two men, 1870s - 1930s 1 7
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Number inked on negative: (140)
Caption: Derviches
Jewish quarter of Tehran, 1870s - 1930s 1 (Sevruguin) 8
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Number inked on negative: (1054)
Caption: Teheran Quartier Juive
Man with a falcon, 1870s - 1930s 1 (Sevruguin) 9
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Number inked on negative: (1335)
Caption: None
Large crowd [wrestling match?] at Gulistan Palace, Tehran, 1870s - 1930s 1 (Sevruguin) 10
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Number inked on negative: (653)
Caption: Teheran
Subseries 2.3: Executions, criminals, punishment, 1870s - 1930s
Box Folder
Mirza Riza Kirmani, 1896 1 (Sevruguin) 11
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Caption: Mirza Riza
Note: Assassin of Nasir al-din Shah
Public hanging of Irza Riza Kirmani, 1896 August 12 1 (Sevruguin) 12
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Number inked on negative: (623)
Caption: Mirza Riza
Note: Assassin of Nasir al-din Shah.
Group of prisoners and guards, 1870s - 1930s 1 (Sevruguin) 13
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Number inked on negative: (122)
Caption: None
Note: Probably not ordinary prisoners, possibly Bahais or political revolutionaries.
A prisoner and guard, 1870s - 1930s 1 (Sevruguin) 14
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Number inked on negative: (1264)
Caption: Un brigand
Executed prisoner in a public square, 1870s - 1930s 1 (Sevruguin) 15
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Caption: Execute
Man being buried alive, 1870s - 1930s 1 (Sevruguin) 16
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Number inked on negative: (1131)
Caption: Execute
Note: Probably not a common thief or adulterer, possibly a Bahai leader.
See also negative number 39.2a (Box 2 Folder 7.)
Administration of punishment by application of bastinado, 1870s - 1930s 1 (Sevruguin) 17
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Number inked on negative: (299)
Caption: Bastanad
Note: See also Box 4 folder 7 for a comparative image.
Subseries 2.4: Architecture, 1870s - 1930s
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Masjid-i Shah Abdul Azim, Tehran 1870s - 1930s 1 (Sevruguin) 18
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Number inked on negative: (85)
Caption: Shah [___?] Abdoul azime
Note: See also negative number 54.4 (Box 3 Folder 2.)