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Ark-i ʻAlīshāh-i Tabrīz, view of the courtyard with William Sachtleben, Thomas Allen, missionaries and others, Tabrīz, Iran, 1891

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Title: Ark-i ʻAlīshāh-i Tabrīz, view of the courtyard with William Sachtleben, Thomas Allen, missionaries and others, 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
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Photograph taken during William Lewis Sachtleben's bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Photograph of a group of people in the courtyard of the Ark-i ʻAlīshāh-i Tabrīz, including William Sachtleben, Thomas Allen, missionaries and others.
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 / 21
Text from negative sleeve: No. 20. July 18, 1891: View of the court-yard of the ark. The ruins in the background, our party in the foreground.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1841_0107
ark:/21198/zz002hfj6z
Subject: Bicycle touring--Asia
Mosques--Iran--Tabriz
Sachtleben, William Lewis
Allen, Thomas Gaskell
Ark-i ʻAlīshāh-i Tabrīz
Source: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

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