P 1383/1914 Report by Lieut Colonel P M Sykes on a journey from Meshed to Russian Turkestan; correspondence regarding payment to Messrs Kodak for prints
Scope & Content:
Contains 22 photographs IOR/L/PS/11/76, P 1383/1914 (1-22)
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the tomb tower, with party on horseback in front of the structure: 'In the afternoon we left the marsh and rode to Mil-i-Radkan, or 'Tower of Radkan.' This structure stands eighty feet high and measures one hundred and fifty feet in circumference...
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the tomb tower, with party on horseback in front of the structure: 'In the afternoon we left the marsh and rode to Mil-i-Radkan, or 'Tower of Radkan.' This structure stands eighty feet high and measures one hundred and fifty feet in circumference...
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length portrait of an elderly bearded man standing in front of a yurt: 'The Chapashlu, or 'Owners of Goats', are a branch of the Turkish Istajlu, one of the seven tribes which set Shah Ismail, the founder of the Savafi dynasty, on the throne of Persia.'
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length portrait of an elderly bearded man standing in front of a yurt: 'The Chapashlu, or 'Owners of Goats', are a branch of the Turkish Istajlu, one of the seven tribes which set Shah Ismail, the founder of the Savafi dynasty, on the throne of Persia.'