Emil Alpiger at the Ziegler carpet company office, Sultanabad
1890
Emil Alpiger, manager at the Ziegler carpet company's Sultanabad branch, Persia, 1890, European mercantile involvement in the industrialized export carpet trade. Photographed by Antoin Sevruguin.
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