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Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map (1906)

Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 695

An illustration from Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map, 1906, leaf 695 — well-equipped tele-graph headquarters, an imposing Imperial Bank, a so-calledBoulevard des Ambassadeurs, along which the ministers ofthe foreign legations ride in official dress, not to speak of shopswith European goods, two hotels, a claim to the use of gas,and a pretense of having a jingle-bell… … TEHERAN AS A CAPITAL 419 with the survival of many a custom that seems to antedate thetime of Cyrus — are characteristics that belong to the Orientand make Teheran as Oriental as any capital in the East,although I missed those signs of national greatness which be-longed to the days of Persias…

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