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Joseph Knanishu and his family, Assyrian immigrants, Illinois, 1899
Studio portrait of Joseph Knanishu, seated with a baby on his knee, his wife standing and a small boy in a sailor suit, with a Syriac inscription along the bottom of the print. It is the frontispiece of his book About Persia and Its People, printed at Rock Island, Illinois, in 1899, in which he describes himself as a native of Persia; the photograph was likely taken in the United States.
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Internet Archive (Library of Congress copy of Joseph Knanishu, About Persia and Its People, 1899)
Joseph Knanishu (author); Lutheran Augustana Book Concern, Rock Island, Illinois (printers) · Public domain (published in the United States in 1899).
