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View over the rooftops of Urmia

Place: Urmia · today Iran
Date: 1880s

View across flat mud-brick roofs and gardens of Urmia toward the mountains, with a two-storey building in the middle distance. Mounted print captioned "Ourmiah", from Henry Binder's album given to the Société de Géographie in 1887.

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Bibliothèque nationale de France, Société de Géographie (Gallica)

Henry Binder · conditions spécifiques d'utilisation (sous convention Société de géographie)

Reference: SG WD-72, f. 10

View over the rooftops of Urmia

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