Persia - Dervishes, Mollahs and Sards – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Persia - Dervishes, Mollahs and Sards, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Persia - Dervishes, Mollahs and Sards
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The caption for this Persian scene names dervishes, mollahs and a term rendered "Sards," though the record marks the title as unverified. The glass negative belongs to the Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that sold news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century. Dervishes are members of Sufi orders known for mystical devotion, and mollahs are Islamic clerics and teachers, so the pairing points to religious life in Persia, the country known as Iran after 1935.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,703 × 4,197 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-14301 |
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