Menzil (rest stop) on the road between Qazvīn and Tehran, Iran, 1891
Item Overview
- Title
- Menzil (rest stop) on the road between Qazvīn and Tehran, Iran, 1891
- Photographer
- Sachtleben, William Lewis
- Date Created
- August 10, 1891
- Date
- 1891-08-10
- 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.
Photograph of a rest stop with a brick building fronted by an arcade. A man walks in front of the building and William Sachtleben's Humber bicycle is parked in the foreground next to a wooden bench. Two men are barely visible on the right. - Caption
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Text from negative sleeve: No. 56. August 10, 1891. One of the large menzils on the road side between Kasveen and the capital, Teheran. Stop for lunch.
Handwritten on negative: 4498 / 37
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photographic negative
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs - Location
- Iran
- Longitude
- 35.960223
- Latitude
- 50.685425
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Rest stops -- Iran
Bicycle touring -- Asia
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1841_0136
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002hfk6f
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- public domain
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.