Accession Number: 2009.24.16.331-.334
Description: .331: BW print, two men in suits stand side-by-side on the steps of a building in front of the doorway; on reverse, "Essad, our first blind boy May 1926 in Tabriz, now working as an evangelist with Hermann Loerner. Isfahan, 1.5.55"; .332: BW print, five rows of teachers and students stand on the front steps of a columned entry; on reverse, "Our home-family including some of our formerly blind armenian girls. Pastor Christoffel's Blind-home Herman Loerner. Isfahan, 1.5.55"; .333: BW print,two rows of teachers and students stand on the front porch of a columned entry; on reverse, "Our home-family 1.5.55 Isfahan. (Blind home of Pastor Christofel ) Hermann Loerner"; .334: Group of students and adults stand behind a mounded grave laid with flowers; on reverse, "Our blind boys, some of our persian servants, one [sic] the grave of Pastor Christofel. Hermann Loerner 1.5.55".
Medium: Photographic Paper
Date: 1955
History/Provenance: Ernst J. Christobel opened a home for the Blind in Taliz, Iran in 1926, and another in Isfahan, Iran in 1928. Assad Benan, seen in .331, was his first student in Taliz.
Credit Line: AFB Migel Memorial Library Collection, 2009.24
Subjects: Blind children Education of disabled persons Iran Schools for the blind and visually impaired
