Covington Memorial Evangelical church under construction, Tabrīz, Iran, 1891
Item Overview
- Title
- Covington Memorial Evangelical church under construction, Tabrīz, Iran, 1891
- Photographer
- Sachtleben, William Lewis
- Date Created
- July 18, 1891
- Date
- 1891-07-18
- Collection
- Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841
Notes
- Description
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Photograph taken during William Lewis Sachtleben's bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr.
The Presbyterian church was a gift of Mr. J. I. Covington of Brooklyn in memory of his daughter Ruth Covington.
Photograph of the interior of the Covington Memorial Evangelical church under construction with workmen engaged in building a brick wall and huge log beams in the foreground. - Caption
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Text from negative sleeve: No. 16. July 18, 1891. Building the Covington Memorial Evangelical church in Tabriz. The singing Mussalmans working on a Christian Missionary
Handwritten on negative: 4498 / [?]
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photographic negative
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs - Location
- Iran--Tabriz
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Churches -- Iran -- Tabriz
Bicycle touring -- Asia
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1841_0103
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002hfj2w
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- public domain
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.