Genre: Portrait Photography Oval image. Head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman tentatively identified as William John Cooper's mother. Copy print of an older original.
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length seated studio portrait of a uniformed Bakhtiari chief, on photographer's card mount. The photographer styles himself as 'Russian photographer, Tehran' (in Russian, Persian and French) on the printed legend on the back of the mount.
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length seated studio portrait of a Bakhtiari chief, holding a rifle across his knees and wearing bandoliers of bullets. Inscribed in Persian on mount.
Sheikh? Wearing the Order of the Lion and the Sun. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length standing portrait of an unidentified man, wearing uniform jacket and medals. Inscribed in Persian on mount.
Boys outing to a Persian garden, in the middle of the desert near Kerman, 1938. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of Persian boys in a large terraced garden. The view looks up the hillside towards a pavilion in the distance. Precise location unidentified. The note below the print identifies Rev. Arthur Howden (who married Winifred Wilson's daughter Isobel in 1939)...