Three girls soliciting alms from the American missionary, William Whipple, Tabrīz, Iran, 1891

Item Overview

Title: Three girls soliciting alms from the American missionary, William Whipple, Tabrīz, Iran, 1891
Photographer: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Date Created: July 23, 1891
Date: 1891-07-23
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.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: 4498 / 30
Text from negative sleeve: No. 29. July 23, 1891. Persian beggar-girls soliciting alms from the American missionary, Mr. Whipple, in Tabriz. Taken in the bazaars of Tabriz.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 photographic negative
Medium: b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs
Names: Whipple, William Levi, 1844-1901
Location: Iran--Tabriz
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Missionaries--American -- Iran -- Tabriz
Bicycle touring -- Asia
Beggars -- Iran -- Tabriz
Bazaars -- Iran -- Tabriz

Find This Item

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1841_0113
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hfjd2
Manifest url

Access Condition

Rights statement: public domain
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.