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Title: Ark-i ʻAlīshāh-i Tabrīz, view of the top, Tabrīz, Iran, 1891
Contributor: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Date Created and/or Issued: 1891-07-18
July 18, 1891
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841
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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.
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: 4498 / 18
Text from negative sleeve: No. 17. July 18, 1891. On the top of the ark. Entrance to the chamber from whence the Shaw threw down his disobedient or immoral wives to the ground below, 100 feet.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1841_0104
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Subject: Bicycle touring--Asia
Mosques--Iran--Tabriz
Ark-i ʻAlīshāh-i Tabrīz
Source: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

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