Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the snow-covered garden towards the steps leading to the verandah of the house at Gulhek, north of Tehran.
Village near Teheran in winter. Snow swept off flat roofs fills narrow lanes. Photographer: Unknown
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View looking along the narrow village street, blocked with snow, towards the mountain rising behind, with figures posed in the foreground. The village is presumably located in the Elburz Mountains, north of Tehran.
Golestan Palace. 1910. Shah's audience saloon. Photographer: Sevruguin, Antoine
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Inscription: Signed 'Sevruguin' in cyrillic script in negative. Genre: Architectural Photography General view looking along the audience hall, decorated with richly-painted walls and massive chandeliers. The photograph appears older than the given date of 1910.
Shah's Peacock Throne in the audience chamber. Emblem of the sun over the back. It would be lined with a fine carpet and the Shah would sit in it cross-legged [modern caption]. Photographer: Sevruguin, Antoine
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Inscription: Signed in the negative 'Sevruguin' in Cyrillic script. Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of the throne.
Persian fruiterer [modern caption]. Photographer: Sevruguin, Antoine
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Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of a shopkeeper, probably in Tehran, seated among shallow baskets of fruit in front of a shop, with other onlookers posed for the camera.
Teheran, baker's shop [modern caption]. Photographer: Sevruguin, Antoine
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Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of a baker seated in front of his shop with his scales in front of him and loaves of flat bread laid out on either side. With a youth and a younger boy in the foreground. The accompanying note reads, 'Boy on left with a 'loaf' of Sangat bread over each shoul...