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

Juan Cole 02/15/2017

British Museum | Sir Percy Sykes | – –

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

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

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment and 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. Follow him at @jricole.