Josef Cohn, Assyrian from Urmia, police portrait with mirror, Stockholm, 1905

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Josef Cohn, Assyrian from Urmia, police portrait with mirror, Stockholm, 1905

Place
Stockholm
Date
1905

Police photograph of Josef Cohn, described by Stockholm City Archives as a Christian Assyrian from Persia, shown face-on with his profile in a mirror. Arrested for vagrancy in Falkenberg in 1905 and questioned in Stockholm, he said he came from the village "Tjarpas" near Urmia (likely Charbash) and had studied to be a preacher.

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Source

Stockholms stadsarkiv, via Stockholmskällan

Okänd polisfotograf · CC-BY. Stadsarkivet SE/SSA/0023/01, Överståthållarämbetet för polisärenden, Kriminalavdelningen, Fotografier 1893-1907.