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Myron Bement Smith Collection

98 photoprints, collected in 1934
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Black and white photo of men gathering around an ice cream vendor with a makeshift cart, against an open backdrop of dry dirt and sky.
Black and white photo of crowds outside a mosque.
Five men and a woman in dark clothes, and a child in white stand in front of a shrine, turned sideways to peer at the camera.
Well-dressed religious dignitaries gather outside a pair of ornate doors
The face of High Priest Kartir, with hand raised and outstretched, in relief on rock face.
Tomb architecture carved into the face of a cliff.
Rock cut reliefs depicting the Triumph of Shapur I over Valerian with Groups of Cavalry and Infantry Saluting the King
Rock cut reliefs Showing Bahram II Receiving a Delegation: Detail View of Delegation Bringing Horses and Camels to the King
Stone cut relief depicting the Triumph of Shapur I over Valerian, and Middle Persian Inscription of the High Priest Kartir
A man looking up at Two Sasanian Reliefs Depicting the Investiture of Ardashir I by the God Ahura Mazda (Hormizd) (left) as well as Bahram II and Court, Carved over a Pre-Achaemenid Relief (right), with another man sitting at the base of the cliff in which the reliefs are carved.
Rock cut relief depicting the Equestrian Combat of King Bahram II
Rock cut reliefs depicting the Investiture of Narseh by Anahita
A man walks in the foreground in front of a tower in the desert, while three horses graze on one side, and a man astride a white horse looks up at the tower.
Mausoleum of Cyrus the Great
Two men look up at the mausoleum of Cyrus the Great while horses graze nearby.
Clerics standing and sitting in an entrance portal.
Four men stand at the foot of a cliff with tomb architecture carved into its face.
An oblique view of a tomb entrance carved into the face of a cliff.
A figure leans against a cliff, on top of which is carved two fire altars.
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