PhotographAA-0279

Teachers and graduating class, Fiske Seminary, Urmia

Place: Urmia · today Iran
Date: 19th century

Seven women in white dresses and headscarves, and two in dark dresses, posed before a patterned hanging. They are the teachers and graduating class of the Fiske Seminary, the American mission's school for Assyrian girls at Urmia.

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Yonan, Persian Women (1898), via Internet Archive

Isaac Malek Yonan (author); photographer not named · Published 1898 in Nashville; public domain.

Teachers and graduating class, Fiske Seminary, Urmia

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