Stereocards of Iran
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circa 1870s
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10 Items (Stereocards)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2015.23
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Ten stereocards of scenes of Iran dating from the 1870s. Brief captions in French. Publisher is Wereld-Tourist-Collectie (N.V.) Haarlem, Netherlands.
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Sevruguin, Antoin, 1851-1933
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undated
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1 Item (album (99 photoprints), b&w, 31.2 cm. x 41.6 cm. (sheet))
62 albumen prints (b&w, 25 cm. x 20 cm. or smaller)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2011.03
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
A large album of prints by photographer Antoin Sevruguin, likely dating from his early career in Iran in the 1870s and 1880s. The collection also includes a number of loose, unbacked prints, many duplicating the photographs in the album. Roughly half of the mounted prints have English handwritten captions.
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American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
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undated
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98 lantern slides (black and white and color)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A1991.04
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Lantern slides, undated, some hand-tinted, assembled by the Foreign Missions Library of New York City to document missionary activities in Iran, probably during the early part of the twentienth century. Included are images of missionaries and evangelists, Fiske seminary, The American High School for Boys in Tehran, the Memorial School for Boys in T...
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Bier, Lionel D., 1942-2004
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1975-1976
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29 Items (architectural drawings)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2004.05
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Twenty-nine ink and pencil drawings documenting, usually both in plan and elevation, a number of both pre-Islamic and Islamic Iranian architectural monuments, executed on site between 1975 and 1976. Focus primarily is on Sassanian sites. Sites covered include: Bishapur, Firuzabad, Istakhr, Masjid-i Sang, Sarvistan, and Shari-i Ij
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Sevruguin, Antoin, 1851-1933
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undated
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1 Item (album (120 photoprints))
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2015.09
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Black leather bound album of 119 albumen prints and one silver gelatin print. Prints are likely produced by the studio of photographer Antoin Sevruguin in the 1870s and 80s in his early career in Iran. Includes handwritten captions in Persian. Many of the prints have an unusually purplish tone.
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Sevruguin, Antoin, 1851-1933
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1880s-1930
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1 gelatin silver print (b&w, -- cm. x -- cm.)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2012.03
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- On recto of the print, faded handwritten number (inked, probably by Antoin Sevruguin) reads, "245."
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ANONYMOUS
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undated
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1 Print (albumen, image 21 x 16 cm., mounted 51 x 41 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A1999.01
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Undated albumen print by an unknown photographer, depicting a Persian-Armenian woman in outdoors dress.
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Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979
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undated
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18 Photographs
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A1998.03
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Color photoprints, matted, and housed in a portfolio entitled Iran, dated 1957, taken by Nelson A. Rockefeller (1908-1979) of architecture, mostly in the city of Isfahan, including The Cihil Sutun; and the Darius relief momument at Bistun.
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Sevruguin, Antoin, 1851-1933
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1969-1985
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18 albumen prints (b&w)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A.15
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Antoin Sevruguin managed and operated one of the most successful commercial photography studios in Tehran in the late 19th century. Born in the 1840s in Iran, Sevruguin's mother returned with her children to her hometown of Tbilisi after his father Vassil, a Russian diplomat in Iran, died in a horse riding accident. Trained as a painter, Sevruguin ...
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1960s-1970s
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3 Linear feet (Approximately 1387 images. )
The collection had minimal arrangement when acquired.
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2017.04
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Photography taken by Mr. Schricker in Iran during the 1970s. His photography covers several topics: the opening of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in 1977, images of industrial buildings, and images of Iranian works of art from the Behshar Industrial Group and other artists. Materials consist of slides, positive film strips, transparencies, ...