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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph taken during William Lewis Sachtleben's bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr. Photograph of William Sachtleben and Thomas Allen challenging a tiger in its cage at the Shah's Zoological gardens near the palace of Doshan Tappeh. Sachtleben and Allen stand next to their Humber bicycles. A third person (Morris?) behind Sachtleben or Allen extends his hand to the cage on the right. The Tehran Zoological Garden at Doshan Tappeh was founded by Naser al-Din Shah Qajar. Text from negative sleeve: No. 16. Oct. 3, 1891. In front of the tiger's cage at the Shah's Zoological gardens near the palace of Tepe in vicinity of Teheran. Sachtleben and Morris bearding tiger before his den. Handwritten on negative: 4898 / 18
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1841_0087 ark:/21198/zz002hfhh4
Subject
Bicycle touring--Asia Zoos--Iran--Tehran Sachtleben, William Lewis Allen, Thomas Gaskell
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