Washerwomen, Tehran. Photographer: Sevruguin, Antoine
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Genre: Portrait Photography Group of women and children posed with baskets of washing beneath a tree. Note beneath the print reads: 'Washerwomen in a private compound — probably a European house — the Armenian nanny with European child on right. Neat kerchief sleeves gathered at the wrist and h...
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.
Traditional band — 1910 [modern caption]. Photographer: Sevruguin, Antoine
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Genre: Portrait Photography Studio portrait of a group of musicians with drums, pipes and long trumpets, with accompanying note: 'In 1968-9 we saw such a band in the entrance to Isfahan Bazaar to 'play out' the setting sun. In Meshed we saw a band in a tower doing similarly — it also played for...
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...
[Unidentified man in uniform and plumed hat.] Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length standing portrait of an unidentified man, wearing a uniform and cape emblazoned with a motif of crosses and a plumed hat.
Reza Khan the Minister for War ('Sardar Sepah') and self [William John Cooper]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Snapshot of Reza Khan and William John Cooper at a race meeting, presumably in Tehran. A later note accompanying the print reads, 'Reza Khan — Minister for War (Saedar-e-Sepah) and Grandpa Cooper. Reza Khan was later (1925) to make himself Shah and became Reza Shah P...
Turkoman tribesman. Photographer: Sevruguin, Antoine
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Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders studio portrait of a Turkoman man, in half-profile looking off to the right and wearing a large black wool hat.