Bostam — The Shaking Minaret. Photographer: Watson, John Williams
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the tower, with a group of curious onlookers in the right foreground: 'The famous shaking minaret was next visited and two men shook it with the result that a brick set on edge fell down. It is about forty feet high, composed of brickwork an...
Bostam — The Shaking Minaret. Photographer: Watson, John Williams
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the tower, with a group of curious onlookers in the right foreground: 'The famous shaking minaret was next visited and two men shook it with the result that a brick set on edge fell down. It is about forty feet high, composed of brickwork an...
Shrine of Muhamead [sic] Mahruk. Tomb of Omar Khayyam showing in left wing [at Nishapur or Neyshabur]. Photographer: Watson, John Williams
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view, but with top of dome of main tomb out of picture. 'Less than half a mile to the east [of the tomb of Farid-ud-din], in the heart of old Nishapur, the walls of which now resemble banks of earth, is a garden shrine. Under the dome, in the place of ho...
Shrine of Muhamead [sic] Mahruk. Tomb of Omar Khayyam showing in left wing [at Nishapur or Neyshabur]. Photographer: Watson, John Williams
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view, but with top of dome of main tomb out of picture. 'Less than half a mile to the east [of the tomb of Farid-ud-din], in the heart of old Nishapur, the walls of which now resemble banks of earth, is a garden shrine. Under the dome, in the place of ho...
Kadamagh from the east. Photographer: Watson, John Williams
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across fields towards domed shrine (somewhat distant): '...Upon leaving Nishapur, we rode to Kadamgah, where a shrine was built by Shah Abbas to cover the footprint of the Imam Riza. This shrine is surrounded by fine pines of a different species to ...
Kadamagh from the east. Photographer: Watson, John Williams
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across fields towards domed shrine (somewhat distant): '...Upon leaving Nishapur, we rode to Kadamgah, where a shrine was built by Shah Abbas to cover the footprint of the Imam Riza. This shrine is surrounded by fine pines of a different species to ...