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Photo of the Day: Sad Girl, Happy Girl, Iran 1900 (Sykes)

Juan Cole 02/15/2017

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British Museum | Sir Percy Sykes | – –

Two rural Iranian girls of the Qajar era, 1900, one sad, one mischievous.

qajargirls

Via British Museum

Museum number: Sykes.453

Description: Lantern slide, showing two young girls posing. Iran.

Producer name: Photographed by: Gen Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes KCIE

Date: 1900 (circa)

Materials: glass

Filed Under: art and photography, Children, Colonialism, Culture, History, Iran, women

About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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