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Slide set: South Persia and the Great War (lecture: Royal Geographical Society, 47 slides, 1921)

Descriptive data for this set (listed below slide images)
Slide 1
Ploughing near Bandar Abbas
Slide 2
Isfahan -- The Royal Square and Mosque
Slide 3
Treading out the corn, Bandar Abbas
Slide 3
Shiraz from the garden of the Imperial Bank of Persia
Slide 4
The Shiraz Valley
Slide 9
The rock tombs of the Achaemenians
[10]
Winnowing near Bandar
[11]
Banyan Tree Bandar Abbas, from which the tree derived its name
[12]
Water carriers at Bandar Abbas
[13]
Veiled woman, Bandar Abbas
[14]
Isfahan -- Chehel Sutoon Hall (with British Indian and Persian officers)
[15]
Arab tribesmen of Fars
[16]
Arab tribesmen of Fars
[17]
Arab tribesmen of Fars in camp
[18]
Band-i-Amir (Moore's Bendermeer) Fars
[19]
A birka or Water Tank
[20]
Frieze of the Archers, Susa
[21]
Bas-reflief of Cyrus the Great, Pasargadae
[22]
Persepolis -- Hall of 100 Columns
[23]
Hall of 100 columns, Persepolis
[24]
The Porch of Xerxes from the north
[25]
Rubble Tower 60' high in ruins of fort surrounded by a circular moat
[26]
Gateway of the Safavi period
Main type of image
photograph
Main usage of set
lecture
Date of first manufacture
1921
Reading or song

Percy Sykes, ‘South Persia and the Great War’ in Geographical Journal

Events where this set was shown

South Persia and the War 1916-1918 (lantern lecture, London, England, 18 April 1921)

Notes

The set originally comprised 47 slides; 24 were destroyed in 1951 because the images were faded.

A few of the slides are numbered, but otherwise the order in which the slides are shown here does not necessarily correspond to their showing order in the original 1921 lecture.

Lucerna ID  3009072

Record created by Emily Hayes and Richard Crangle. Last updated 16 July 2017

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