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Pack Animals Transporting Goods — Tiflis Bazaar Area, Late 19th Century

Photograph showing pack animals loaded with goods standing on a cobbled street in the Tiflis bazaar area, with people and carts visible in the background.

Pack animals carrying goods in the Tiflis bazaar area.

Photograph by David Guramishvili documenting the transport of goods in the Tiflis bazaar environment. The image shows pack animals loaded with merchandise standing in a cobbled market street, reflecting the role of animal transport in the movement of goods within the city’s commercial districts during the late nineteenth century.

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Date
1870s
Photographer
David Guramishvili
Source
Courtesy of Roena Kenia, Tbilisi.
Attribution
Digitization courtesy of the Photomuseum archive.
Rights
Public domain - Free to use
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