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The Mohammedan temple in Petrograd with its beautiful blue mosaic tile has been protected from injury by the erection of a high wooden fence. #26

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The Mohammedan temple in Petrograd with its beautiful blue mosaic tile has been protected from injury by the erection of a high wooden fence. #26

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Photograph shows the Saint Petersburg Mosque, St. Petersburg, Russia
J228393 U.S. Copyright Office.
Title from copyright register.
Copyrighted February 27, 1918 by Orrin S. Wightman.
Library of Congress copy mounted on cardboard.
Transfer; U.S. Copyright Office; 1918; 45730.
Wightman took this photograph when on an American Red Cross medical mission to Russia in 1917.

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Date

01/01/1917

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Contributors

Wightman, Orrin Sage, 1873-1965, photographer

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Location

Lisiĭ Nos (Saint Petersburg, Russia), 60.00000, 0.50000

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Library of Congress

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http://www.loc.gov/

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