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International Trade

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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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