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Nestorian (Assyrian) Christian family, studio portrait by Sevruguin

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Nestorian (Assyrian) Christian family, studio portrait by Sevruguin

Place
Persia · today Iran
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Studio portrait of a Nestorian Christian family in Persia: two men stand behind seated women and girls in floral dresses, embroidered caps and necklaces, before a painted backdrop. Glass-plate photograph by Antoin Sevruguin, likely late 19th or early 20th century.

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Source

Wikimedia Commons (from Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, Smithsonian, Myron Bement Smith Collection)

Antoin Sevruguin · Wikimedia Commons license: Public domain ({{PD-Iran}})

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