PhotographAA-0556

Isaac Adams, Assyrian author and physician, frontispiece of 1900

Date

1900

Seated studio portrait of the Rev. Isaac Adams, M.D., with a card naming him as author and publisher of "Darkness and Daybreak" and "Persia by a Persian", the frontispiece of his autobiographical book published in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1900. Adams, an Assyrian from Urmia, describes in the book his years of study and lecturing in the United States and Canada.