Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Collection: Sachtleben (William) Images of Armenian Massacre / Subject: Mass burials--Turkey--Erzurum - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Photograph of the bodies of Armenian massacre victims laid out in an open area on the ground between a wall (L) and a stand of trees in the Armenian Cemetery in Erzurum, with people gathered around them along the wall and standing among the trees.
Date:: November 1, 1895-November 2, 1895
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841
Sachtleben (William) Images of Armenian Massacre

Description:: Photograph of rows of Armenian massacre victims interred in a mass grave in the Armenian cemetery in Erzurum. Four men place a body on the ground, while others holding shovels pause and watch or look towards the photographer. The grave is lined by a row of mourners, with tall trees visible behind them.
Date:: November 2, 1895
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841
Sachtleben (William) Images of Armenian Massacre

Description:: Photograph of an Armenian massacre victim being lowered into a mass grave in the Armenian cemetery in Erzurum as mourners watch. On the right on the ground are human bones from graves disturbed digging the huge fifty-three feet square mass grave.
Date:: November 2, 1895
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841
Sachtleben (William) Images of Armenian Massacre

Description:: Photograph of 4 Armenian men carrying the body of a victim of the October 30 massacre to the mass grave. The cemetery wall and stand of trees where the bodies of the victims were laid out are in the background.
Date:: November 2, 1895
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841
Sachtleben (William) Images of Armenian Massacre

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