Persia, Afghanistan & Baluchistan. Historic map, Library of Congress
Relief shown by Hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
Persia - Dervishes, Mollahs and Saids
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Mirza Ali Kuli Khan - Public domain portrait photograph
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Ourmiah, Persia - Fruit Market - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...
Photo probably taken during visit of Ahmad Shah Qajar (1898-1930) to Urmia, Iran. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009 and similar Bain negative: LC-B2-3284-14)
Shah of Persia arriving in Ourmiah
Photo shows visit of Ahmad Shah Qajar (1898-1930), to Urmia, Iran. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)
The ridge of the Mt. of Law - Mt. Sinai region
Armed men on Mt. Sinai. J153410 U.S. Copyright Office. Photograph taken from Gebel Abbas Basha, looking east and showing the ruins of Qasr Abbas Basha (palace), the vicinities of Wadi El Arba'ien (Leja) and Wa... More
Capt. B.H. Tillman - NEWPORT - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...
Photo shows Captain Tillman on the gunboat Newport which served as a training vessel for the New York Public Marine School. Probaby taken on the occasion of the fourth annual athletic games of the school. (Sour... More
Tel Aviv Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. On negative: dup. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978. Title from: list, Matson collection negative numbers 14565-15108.
Police sports on Scopus. American colony in Jerusalem public domain ph...
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Crowds in the Mosque el-Aksa [i.e., al-Aqsa], showing a victim
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Palestine disturbances 1936. Lt. General Dill awaiting the parade of t...
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[Woman wearing headscarf seated at table with drink]
On negative sleeve: "Bookboard" [i.e. Book board]. Forms part of: Toni Frissell collection (Library of Congress).
Colonel Johnson and Colonel Paul Yount, director of the United States ...
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An American locomotive with an American soldier crew hauling freight t...
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A black and white photo of a man in uniform smoking a cigarette. Offic...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Mountainous route of trains carrying supplies to Russia. An American e...
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Somewhere in the Persian corridor. A United States Army truck convoy c...
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Colonel Paul Yount, commanding officer of the American Army Railway Se...
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Correspondent overseas. George Tucker, Associated Press war correspond...
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American troops who work on the railway taking supplies to Russia wash...
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Teheran, Iran. Mrs. Louis Dreyfus, wife of the United States Minister ...
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Teheran, Iran. Mrs. Louis Dreyfus, wife of the United States Minister ...
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Colonel Paul Yount, Director of the Railway Service P.G.S.C., somewher...
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Somewhere in the Persian corridor. A United States Army truck convoy c...
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Somewhere in the Persian corridor. A United States Army truck convoy c...
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Somewhere in the Persian corridor. A United States Army truck convoy c...
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American, Russian and Royal air force pilots at a delivery point of Al...
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A black and white photo of a man sitting on a jeep. Office of War Info...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A black and white photo of a group of people. Office of War Informatio...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Kennedy's welcome Shah of Iran to W. House
Title and date from contact sheet folder caption. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 7667, frame 19. Forms part of: U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection.
Hostages inside the U.S. Embassy, Tehran
Americans seated at desk, two men in clerical vestments leading service in front of them, Christmas tree in background. Title from photographer. No. HAT 293. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1997:068.slide #293
Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Isfandiyar, Khan of the Russian protectorate ...
Title devised by Library staff based on information provided by Dr. Daniel G. Prior, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of History, Ohio State University. Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Con... More
Mar Yohannan, Bishop of Ooroomiah from life on stone by Chs. Fenderich...
Print shows Mar Yohanna, Bishop of Ooroomiah, Persia, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left. Caption continues: Translated by his brother and fellow laborer in the gospel, J. Perkins. Missionary to... More
The pitiful plight of the Assyrian Christians in Persia and Kurdistan ...
"General convention edition, with the resolution adopted"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references (p.62-66). Also available in digital form.
Atlas of Soviet administrative maps.
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[Front view of a crumbling mosque, with a man standing beside it]
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Bedouins in Jordan and other locations
Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region in 1934 and 1935. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer, and photographer. Pho... More
Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ arkheologicheskai︠a︡ / po raspori︠a︡zheni...
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Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ arkheologicheskai︠a︡ / po raspori︠a︡zheni...
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Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ arkheologicheskai︠a︡ / po raspori︠a︡zheni...
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Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ arkheologicheskai︠a︡ / po raspori︠a︡zheni...
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Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ arkheologicheskai︠a︡ / po raspori︠a︡zheni...
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The history of Persia - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress ...
Pedro, not Antonio, Teixeira was the compiler of this work.--cf. Silva, Dicc. bibl. port., Hoefer, Nouv. biog. générale, and Brit. mus. Catalogue. A translation, with additions, of Pedro Teixeira's Relaciones... More
The history of Persia - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress ...
Pedro, not Antonio, Teixeira was the compiler of this work.--cf. Silva, Dicc. bibl. port., Hoefer, Nouv. biog. générale, and Brit. mus. Catalogue. A translation, with additions, of Pedro Teixeira's Relaciones... More
Iran : a country study /
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Syr-dar'inskaia oblast'. G. Turkestan. Mavzolei pravnuchki Emira Timur...
Photograph shows mausoleum built in Turkistan, Kazakhstan, for the great-granddaughter of Uzbek national hero Emir Timur Kuragan.
U.S.S. Brooklyn, Marine guard bayonet drill
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Costumes and characters, etc. Shepherd
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Shah of Persia, seated - Public domain portrait photograph
A black and white photo of a young boy. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Costumes, characters, etc. Druse [i.e., Druze] sheikh
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[Arched entranceway to a mosque with minaret]
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Pupils of school & group of anti-royalists, Tabriz, Persia [Large grou...
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J.L. Caldwell - Public domain photograph, glass negative
Photo shows John Lawrence Caldwell (1875-1922), U.S. ambassador to Iran in 1914. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)
Marine hospital bldg. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
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[Searching Jewish rabbi for hidden arms, Jerusalem]
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Persian Minister, Bulgarian Minister & wife, 5/16/23
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Marine Corps Major in dress white uniform, W[orld] W[ar] II
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Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War In...
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Somewhere in the Persian corridor. A United States Army truck convoy c...
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Moslem [i.e., Muslim] celebrations at Mejdal (Wady Nemill and Sey'd Hu...
Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Somewhere in Iran. Jack Tchernawitz, a Russian-born United States Army...
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Private First Class Leonard L. Sweeney, of Winooski, Vermont. A mechan...
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Major General Donald H. Connolly, Commander of the United States Army ...
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A black and white photo of a group of men standing in front of a truck...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Somewhere in the Persian corridor. A United States Army truck convoy c...
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Jerusalem. 8th Station of the Cross
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Free Iranian political prisoners
Designed by Rachel Romero. Forms part of the Artist poster filing series (Library of Congress) Promotional goal: U.S. H13. 1975
The Honorable Francis Ricciardone, Ambassador of the United States to...
Left to right: two members of the American Embassy staff; Fawzi Tadros, Area Specialist, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress; Ambassador Francis Ricciardone; His Holiness Pope Shenouda III;... More
Middle East oil and gas. - Public domain map
"802936AI (C00494) 4-07." Shows oil and gas fields and pipelines, tanker terminals, and refineries on oil and gas map. Includes inset of Persian Gulf area. Available also through the Library of Congress Web sit... More
Shepherd's Mystery: Blue tunic, green cape with red lining, brown band...
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Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Obrazt︠s︡y mozaichnykh sti︠e︡n v Shakh-Zinde....
Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views in Central Asia, Russian Empire, LOT 10338, no. 75.... More
Kitāb-i mazāmīr-i Ḥaz̤rat-i Dāvīd = Sefer Tehilim : tefilah le-Daṿid
Text of Sefer Tehillim [Book of Psalms] in Hebrew with interlinear Persian translation. Ms. In Persian and Hebrew. Produced in Tehran, Iran; edited by ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd Mʻaṣūmī Tihrānī; illumination by Mahdi... More
[Design drawing for stained glass window with the Visitation]
Public domain reproduction of illuminated book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Annunciation is a biblical event in which the angel Gabriel appeared to the Virgin Mar... More
Bedouins in Jordan and other locations
Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region in 1934 and 1935. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer, and photographer. Pho... More
Photographs of the Dead Sea and surrounding area
Album page image number 1-14 (p. 1-27) Photographs include: Map of the Dead Sea, man floating in Dead Sea, Cape Ras Feshkha, collecting salt from the lagoon, Wady Derejeh, 'Ain Jiddy (Ein Gedi), shittim trees, ... More
Green River Cañon, Colorado / T. H. O'Sullivan, phot.
Plate 66 from: Geological exploration of the fortieth parallel / U.S. Army Corps. of Engineers ; Clarence King, geologist in charge. [Washington, D.C., 187-?].
Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ arkheologicheskai︠a︡ / po raspori︠a︡zheni...
Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Iran : a country study /
Public domain history book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Persarum imperium. Historic map, Library of Congress
Shows Iran and adjacent counties. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
Zhenskie obychai u Tadzhikov. Uveselenie (mailis)
Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, pl. 74.
Africa - Stores: vaulted bazaars of Tunis - Frank G. Carpenter collect...
Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).
Tomb, Cyrus, Iran - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Costumes, characters, etc. Dervish with cheeks pierced
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
[Student standing alongside tiger] / John Weston Galbraith.
Letter "P" for Princeton University in background. Promotional goal: U.S. G53. 1902.
Fanatical dervishes guarding the "Mahmal" or Holy Carpet, Damascus, Sy...
Dervishes and others standing in front of the Mahmal, the symbol of the Ottoman sultan, during the Hajj. H39502 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by William H. Rau. No. 5457.
Shah of Persia, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photograph shows Ahmad Shah Qajar (1898-1930), who was Shah of Iran from 1909 to 1925 and was the last leader of the Qajar dynasty. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain Ne... More
Assyrian Christians driven from homes in North Persia Driven from thei...
Photograph shows displaced Assyrian Christian people with their belongs seated on the ground during the Assyrian Genocide. Forms part of: American National Red Cross collection (Library of Congress). Accession... More
JUNIOR MARINES - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
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British military drills during 1920s; [Another view of British militar...
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Genl. Reville & Marine ofc., 12/9/29
A group of men in uniform standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Agriculture, etc. Phenomenal growth of a cypress tree from the trunk o...
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Iraq. Kirkuk. A street scene in the older town
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Iraq. Babylon "the great." Various views of the crumbling ruins. The I...
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Iraq. Kerbela. Second holy city of the Shiite Moslems [i.e., Muslims]....
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Departure of Mr. & Mrs. Lynch for Iran (1937 Sept.)
Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
A black and white photo of a small plane. Great Depression FFSA / OWI ...
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Gas decontamination squad practicing in the USSR (Union of Soviet Soci...
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