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Assyrian printers at the mission press, Urmia, c. 1900

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Assyrian printers at the mission press, Urmia, c. 1900

Place
Urmia · today Iran
Date
1900s
MissionPersia

Three men stand at a large hand-cranked printing press, one holding up a printed sheet, at the Presbyterian mission press in Urmia about 1900.

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Source

Wikimedia Commons (from the Presbyterian Historical Society, Pearl: Shedd Family Papers)

Unknown (Shedd family papers) · Wikimedia Commons license: Public domain

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