Tehran Zoological Garden at Doshan Tappeh, Tehran vicinity, Iran, 1891

Item Overview

Title

Tehran Zoological Garden at Doshan Tappeh, Tehran vicinity, Iran, 1891

Photographer

Sachtleben, William Lewis

Date Created

October 3, 1891

Date

1891-10-03

Collection

Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Notes

Description

Photograph taken during William Lewis Sachtleben's bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr.
Photograph of William Sachtleben and Thomas Allen challenging a tiger in its cage at the Shah's Zoological gardens near the palace of Doshan Tappeh. Sachtleben and Allen stand next to their Humber bicycles. A third person (Morris?) behind Sachtleben or Allen extends his hand to the cage on the right.
The Tehran Zoological Garden at Doshan Tappeh was founded by Naser al-Din Shah Qajar.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: No. 16. Oct. 3, 1891. In front of the tiger's cage at the Shah's Zoological gardens near the palace of Tepe in vicinity of Teheran. Sachtleben and Morris bearding tiger before his den.
Handwritten on negative: 4898 / 18

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Sachtleben, William Lewis
Allen, Thomas Gaskell

Location

Iran--Tehran

Longitude

35.693273

Latitude

51.525192

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Bicycle touring -- Asia
Zoos -- Iran -- Tehran