Image / Bibi-Khanym Mausoleum, Samarqand, Uzbekistan, 1891

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Title: Bibi-Khanym Mausoleum, Samarqand, Uzbekistan, 1891
Contributor: Allen, Thomas Gaskell
Date Created and/or Issued: 1891-12-22
December 22, 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 of men seated across from the ruins of the Bibi-Khanym Mausoleum.
Photograph taken during William Lewis Sachtleben's bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr.
Text from negative sleeve: No. 51. Dec. 22, 1891. The tomb of Bibbi Khanem, the Chinese consort of Timourlane the Great. A scene in the old city of Samarcand.
Handwritten on negative: 5201 / [illegible nos.]
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1841_0382
ark:/21198/zz002hfvn1
Subject: Mausoleums--Uzbekistan--Samarqand
Bicycle touring--Asia
Bibi-Khanym Mausoleum (Samarqand, Uzbekistan)
Source: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

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