Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Showing bales of unidentified goods (wool?) awaiting transportation, piled in the street in front of a row of houses.
Early oil derricks, Masjid-i-Sulaiman [Masjed Soleyman]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Industrial Photography General view of an oil well drilling rig in the leading oil fields of south-west Iran. Oil was first struck in the district in 1908.
Genre: Industrial Photography Snapshot view looking across a river (with a pontoon bridge and car in foreground) towards a distant oil derrick, probably at Masjed Soleyman.