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American missionary William Whipple, Thomas Allen, and beggars in the courtyard of "Amir Caravanserai," Tabrīz, Iran, 1891

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Title: American missionary William Whipple, Thomas Allen, and beggars in the courtyard of "Amir Caravanserai," Tabrīz, Iran, 1891
Contributor: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Date Created and/or Issued: July 23, 1891
1891-07-23
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.
This photograph appears with the caption "Yard of Caravansary at Tabreez" in the book by Thomas Allen and William Sachtleben, Across Asia on a Bicycle (1897), p. 88.
Photograph of William Whipple, an American missionary (light hat, L), Thomas Allen (light hat R), and 3 women begging in the courtyard of "Amir Caravanserai." The courtyard is paved in stone and has large, circular tree beds.
Handwritten on negative: 4498 / 31
Text from negative sleeve: No. 30. July 23, 1891. A general view of the Amir Caravanserai, the best one in Tabriz. Whipple, Allen and Persian beggars in the foreground.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1841_0114
ark:/21198/zz002hfjfk
Subject: Missionaries--American--Iran--Tabriz
Caravansaries--Iran--Tabriz
Bicycle touring--Asia
Beggars--Iran--Tabriz
Courtyards--Iran--Tabriz
Whipple, William Levi, 1844-1901
Allen, Thomas Gaskell
Source: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

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