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View of Tabrīz from the roof of the Turkish Consulate, Tabrīz, Iran, 1891

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Title: View of Tabrīz from the roof of the Turkish Consulate, Tabrīz, Iran, 1891
Contributor: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Date Created and/or Issued: 1891
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
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.
Ark-i ʻAlīshāh-i Tabrīz, also known as Arg-e AliShāh, Arg-e Tabriz and Masjid AliShāh, is a remnant of a mosque in the center of Tabriz, Iran, built in the Ilkhanate period.
Handwritten on negative: 4489 [?] / 10
Text from negative sleeve: No. 9. July 17, 1891. View of Tabriz from the roof of the Turkish Consulate looking south and a little east. The ark in the distance.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1841_0097
ark:/21198/zz002hfhv9
Subject: Bicycle touring--Asia
Mosques--Iran--Tabriz
Consulates--Turkish--Iran--Tabriz
Source: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

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