Here's
a photo album containing 29 historical pictures on
Iran , taken
during the last decades of the 19th and first decades of
the 20th centuries.
The photographer was Antoin Sevruguin, who was born in
the Russian
Embassy in
Tehran
in 1840 and
died in 1933. He was known as a famous
and talented photographer in
Tehran and Tabriz .
Sevruguin found his way to Mozaffareddin Shah, the Crown
Prince of the
Qajar dynasty and became the special photographer of the
court.
Some of his pictures was put on display in an exhibition
in the winter of
2002 in Golestan Palace Museum and included modern
prints made from
Sevruguin's original glass-plate negatives.
These pictures are from the National Museum of Ethnology
in
Leiden
,
The Netherlands .
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