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Uzbekistan

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = Uzbekistan

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Advertisement for Karakul Sheep. "Bringing a Harem to Texas", 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3031
Scope and Contents

Article, illustration and photographs from the St. Louis Dispatch, January 24, 1909 entitled, "Bringing a Harem to Texas" about Dr. C C Young's importing Karakul sheep from Bokhara [Uzbekistan] to Holliday [Texas]. The illustraion shows a man in Arabic dress offering a platter with small men on it to a Western man in a top hat. There is a map of the Central Asian region and two photographs of women in Uzbek costume.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Fat-Tailed Sheep, Khiva [Uzbekistan], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2339
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a few fat-tailed sheep in a courtyard in Khiva, [Uzbekistan] taken by Ella Christie of Cowden Castle in [possibly 1912].

Dates: 1870s-1930s

His Excellency, the Kushbegi, Vice Emir of Bokhara [Bukhara], [Uzbekistan], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2998
Scope and Contents

Photograph of His Excellency, the Kushbegi, the Vice Emir of Bokhara [Bukhara], [Uzbekistan] riding in an open-topped carriage drawn by a team of horses in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Karakul Market of Old Bokhara City, [Uzbekistan], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3029
Scope and Contents

Photograph of Uzbek men and boys in traditional dress holding Karakul lambs in the Karakul Market of Old Bokhara City, [Bukhara], [Uzbekistan] in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s