Shah of Persia arriving in Ourmiah – 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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Shah of Persia arriving in Ourmiah. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Shah of Persia arriving in Ourmiah
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Ourmiah, the northwestern Iranian town now usually spelled Urmia, is the place named in this glass negative, which shows a shah's arrival there. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the glass plates of the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century. The record gives no firm date, and its title rests on unverified caption information, so the particular shah and occasion remain open to question. Visits by rulers drew crowds and local notice in this regional center near the lake of the same name.
| 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 | 5,709 × 4,197 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-14300 |
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