Album of Iranian Photographic Portraits

A family compiled album bound in gold embossed green leather and sold by Au Bon Marche, Paris. Seventy-six informal and studio individual portraits or groups by a variety of photographers from the 1860s to the 1940s or later. Subjects are likely family members, although formal portraits of royalty are also included. Formats range from large cabinet prints to cartes de visites, and are inserted into pockets rather than glued onto pages. Many of the prints have been cut down to fit into the cartes de visite pockets of the album. Most of the photographs have Persian language annotations written in pen or pencil.

FSA A2012.05

Abdullah Mirza Qajar, 1850-1909

Nāsir al-Dīn Shāh, Shah of Iran, 1831-1896

Asia

Iran

Qajar dynasty, -- Iran, -- 1794-1925

Clothing and dress

Landscapes

Hairstyles

headgear

Jewelry

Military

Palaces

Portrait photography

Royalty (Nobility)

Women

Purchase; 2014.

Qajar dynasty -- Iran -- 1794-1925

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Albumen prints

Cartes-de-visite

Photograph albums

Photographic prints

Studio portraits

Album of Iranian Photographic Portraits. FSA.A2012.05. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

Images indexed by original photographic print number.

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Albumen prints

Cartes-de-visite

Photograph albums

Photographic prints

Studio portraits

Collection is open for research.