Kalleh Choom [on journey from Esfahan to Ahvaz]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography Snapshot looking over the rooftops of the village, towards mountains beyond. Identified on reverse as 'Kala Cham'. Precise location untraced.
Caravanserai. Notice palakens on donkey with a passenger in each. Photographer: Sevruguin, Antoine
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Group with donkeys posed in the courtyard of a caravanserai. The donkey on the left carries children in covered wood-framed baskets slung on each side of the animal.
Snapshot of the droshky carriage broken down on the road, with a figure lying on the ground repairing the rear wheel or axle. Another copy at Mss. Add. 70650B (26).
Mrs Cooper and friends go into the mountains for a picnic, 1912. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Snapshot group of Europeans with ponies on a mountain track in the Elburz Mountains. With pencilled note on back of print: 'Kolakchal 11/8/12.' Mount Kolakchal in just north of Tehran.
[Snapshot of European couple beside a stone cairn, Elburz Mountains, Tehran.] Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Probably taken on the same occasion as print 320 (i.e, on Mount Kolakchal, north of Tehran). The figure on the left is Alice Cooper.
Funeral car for a Burmese monk (‘phongi’). Inscribed ‘Enclosure and catafalque in which a Phungi is placed to be burnt. Hearse in car in which a Phungi is carried to the burning place.’
Two round funeral cars for Burmese lay people. Inscribed: ‘Lay catafalque and coffin.’ Note: The receptacle for the monk’s body is the quadrangular black segment in the middle of the funeral car. Such ornate funeral cars denoted a person of high status, and the related ceremonies would have b...
This collection is composed of 4310 negatives but 191 negatives are missing, so there is information about 4119 negatives in this database. The collection contains two series. A series of 4282 6x6 triacetate negatives and another series of 28 9x12 triacetate negatives. Together they have been org...