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`Witnesses' to Massacres and Genocide and their Aftermath: Probing the Photographic Record

• Close-Up of an Original "Ravished Armenia" Single-Sheet Movie Poster:
  Finding an Appropriate Place for it on the Spectrum of Armenian Genocide Imagery
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - January 12, 2023.

• The Genocide Against the Armenians by the Turks - Part 2
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - August 27, 2022.

• Images that are So Wrong on All Accounts, and Should Have Been Discarded, Insist on Persisting
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - July 19, 2022.

• About Propaganda and the False Accusation that Armenians Are Masters of The Craft of Spin
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - July 12, 2022.

• Raphael Lemkin and the Coining of the word "Genocide"
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - July 5, 2022.

• A Series of Photo Albums Prepared by Maria Jacobsen, Missionary Nurse and Relief Worker
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - June 28, 2022.

• The Genocide Against The Armenians By The Turks
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - January 22, 2022.

• Memoir of Genocide - 1915 to 1920 | The Story of an Armenian Boy - By Nahabed Chakrian (1904 - 1993)
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - January 5, 2022.

• Case of Turks Distorting a 1915 Caption to a Real Photograph With The Express Purpose of Twisting The Facts
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - September 26, 2021.

• An Introduction and Some Background to Our Video "An Intimate Look at a Bronze Statue of Emmanuel Fremiet's Gorilla and Woman"
  Installed in Allerton Park and Retreat Center, University of Illinois, Monticello, Illinois.
  Appreciating More Fully A Marketing Strategy Used for the Film "Ravished Armenia"
• By Eugene L. Taylor and Abraham D. Krikorian - September 6, 2021.

• Wishful Thinking by the British on the Gallipoli Invasion: A 1915 Cartoon that Reflects Putting the Cart Before the Horse
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - September 5, 2021.

• An Early Accounting of The Wretchedness of Turkish Villages
• By Eugene L. Taylor and Abraham D. Krikorian - July 9, 2021.

• WILL AMERICA EVER UNDERSTAND TURKEY? Time To Take a Cartoon Out of Storage to Remind Us of Some Crucial Facts
• By Eugene L. Taylor and Abraham D. Krikorian - July 2, 2021.

• THE EMPTY BOWL: A little-known prize-winning poster from 1920 designed by Kirill Zdanevich, future father of the Avant-Garde Russian Cubo-Futurism school of Painting
• By Eugene L. Taylor and Abraham D. Krikorian - July 1, 2021.

• Beheading as Portrayed in Cartoons From The Ottoman Turkish Period
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - June 17, 2021.

• EVOLUTION OF A GRUESOME PHOTO OF DECAPITATION: From Instilling Terror to Typifying Turkish Savagery
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - June 3, 2021.

• Poster Soliciting Funds to Support Armenians Using Armenian Survivors of The Genocide as Illustrative Models
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - April 25, 2021.

• Adapting an Existing Work of Art For Use as a Fundraising Poster Simply by Adding Text
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - April 24, 2021.

• The Power of a Photograph and its Recycling Over Time
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - April 23, 2021.

• The Attempted Murder of a Nation. An Illustrator for the Press, a Satirist-artist, and a Cartoonist attempt to portray events.
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - April 24, 2018.

• French Political Satirist Orens Denizard Decries Sultan Abdul Hamid II in his 1903-1904 Cartoons Depicting Ruthless Massacres by the Turks
• By Eugene L. Taylor and Abraham D. Krikorian - October 4, 2017.

• Harpoot and Mezereh: A glimpse into the way it was in 1956 when Ruth Azniv Parmelee, M.D. visited.
• By Eugene L. Taylor and Abraham D. Krikorian - October 3, 2017.

• American Missionary Physician Dr. Ruth A. Parmelee Describes the 1915 "Harpoot Deportations": with Appendix of some rare imagery from our files to complement what she wrote; included is the Infamous "Deportation Proclamation"
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - September 29, 2017.

• Photos Of Destitution and Misery: Starving Armenian Kids in Erivan
• By Eugene L. Taylor and Abraham D. Krikorian - September 27, 2017.

• A Rare Poster of an Armenian Boy Used in Fund Raising for the Near East Relief
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - September 15, 2017.

• Documentation and Attribution of Photographs as they Relate to the Atrocities and The Genocide
• By Eugene L. Taylor and Abraham D. Krikorian - September 14, 2017.

• Casting of actors portraying Talaat and Morgenthau is quite good in the film "the promise": A few images to substantiate this opinion
• By Eugene L. Taylor and Abraham D. Krikorian - May 12, 2017.

• Scene from the Armenian Genocide: A French Artist's Chilling Portrayal of Events at the Euphrates River
• By Eugene L. Taylor and Abraham D. Krikorian - April 24, 2017.

• United States Consul Leslie Ammerton Davis Assumes Duties at Harput, Turkey on 31 May 1914
  A Rare Photograph of Him and his Predecessor Consul William Wesley Masterson Together in the Garden of the American Consulate in Mezereh
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - April 21, 2017.

• United States Consul Leslie A. Davis's Communication to Ambassador Henry Morgenthau at the
  American Embassy in Constantinople Concerning Arrests and Subsequent Murders of Harput Men
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - April 17, 2017.

• United States Consul Leslie A. Davis's Photographs of Armenians Slaughtered at Lake Goeljuk, Summer of 1915
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - April 7, 2017.

• Armenian Christmas, Theophany, Epiphany, "Little Christmas", and especially "Le Petit Nol": trying to make sense of a December 23, 1905 cartoon and its caption
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - January 6, 2017.

• Church calendar and tortures of Saint Gregory
• By Eugene L. Taylor and Abraham D. Krikorian - January 1, 2017.

• We Survived: We Are Alive, Well and Undaunted by Turkish Terror. BUT We Will Never Forget. Armenian Immigrants Rebuilding their Lives in America.
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - April 25, 2016.

• Picture This: American Cartoonists Portray the Destruction of the Armenian Nation by the Turks. A remarkable cartoon essay on this colossal crime published in December 1915 that tells of the scale of the horrors in no uncertain terms.
• By Eugene L. Taylor and Abraham D. Krikorian - April 23, 2016.

• Armenian Immigrants Rebuilding their Lives in America.
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - April 23, 2016.

• A 1935/1936 Season Sunday School Photograph Taken by Kazaros Sarkis Melikian at the Armenian Church of Our Saviour, Worcester, Massachusetts: putting a face on a group photograph of first-generation American Armenian youngsters through a heroic effort to identify them.
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - March 20, 2016.

• Winter in Kharpert area: how much detail do we have on the use of a `kourss' to keep the family warm in winter?
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - March 7, 2016.

• A February 1924 cover photograph of The New Near East magazine asks "Will you send a Valentine to a Near East child - A year of life for $60, or a month for $5?"
  Is anyone able to provide some precise information on this wonderful photograph?
• By Eugene L. Taylor and Abraham D. Krikorian - February 14, 2016.

• Fund-raising pleas on behalf of "Starving Armenians" at Christmastime: from 1919, 1921, and from a box of Safety Matches
• By Eugene L. Taylor and Abraham D. Krikorian - December 27, 2015.

• Satirical Cartoon Published 120 years today, December 21, 1895, on the cover of the weekly magazine Judge (New York): Take home lesson - Money and Profits always trump principles or obligations!
• By Eugene L. Taylor and Abraham D. Krikorian - December 12, 2015.

• A case of an incorrectly attested photograph in a 1906 issue of the French journal Le Tour du Monde shows a young Ruth A. Parmelee, her brother Julius and father, Dr. Moses P. Parmelee in Trebizond 1895 at the Time of the Hamidian Massacres.
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - November 5, 2015.

• Dutch `Cartoonist' Louis Raemaekers' Poster of 1916 entitled `The Lord Mayor London's Appeal for Help for the Armenian People'
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - October 26, 2015.

• Armenian Master Photographer Kazar Sarkis Melikian Collection and Melikian Photo Studio Work Donated to the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress.
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - October 15, 2015.

• Bringing a Photograph into Clearer Focus: Update to Library of Congress' Bain News Service Collection Photo "Armenian Refugees... Date Created/Published: [1920 Dec. 3]
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - October 12, 2015.

• Mary Christine Melikian of Worcester, Massachusetts died at the age of 89 on 22 September 2015.
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - October 11, 2015.

• Ninety-three Years ago Today: the fires of Smyrna are still smoldering and not totally out. Reports by credible witnesses are today forgotten. Forceful Witnesses to the Genocide are muted, and the Republic of Turkey issues a boastful stamp in 1972 commemorating the 50th anniversary of the entry of the glorious Turkish Army into Izmir.
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - September 22, 2015.

• Correction to a Photograph of "Armenian Widows with their Children" Wrongly Dated 1915. It actually dates from 1909.
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - September 22, 2015.

• Maps for `Friends of Kharpert'
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - July 13, 2015.

• A Family Photograph from Korpeh, Kharpert, Old Armenia Bears Forceful Witness to the Genocide
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - July 10, 2015.

• The American Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire: Who was where, and when?
• By Eugene L. Taylor and Abraham D. Krikorian - July 4, 2015.

• Aux Peuples Assassin©s" ["To the Murdered Peoples"]
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - April 25, 2015.

• NINETY-SIX YEARS AGO TODAY, The S.S. Leviathan leaves Hoboken, NJ
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - February 16, 2015.

• Recent additions to Conscience Films videos on Youtube
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - December 27, 2014.

• 99 Years Ago Today: Who Knew What, When and How about The Massacres
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - October 4, 2014.

• Some Details of the Death of Dr. Armenag Harutune Haigazian, Intellectual and Educator in Mezreh, Kharpert in 1921
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - September 25, 2014.

• Sultan Abdul Hamid II: What did he really look like? Caricatures versus photographs.
• By Eugene L. Taylor and Abraham D. Krikorian - September 21, 2014.

• Photograph of "Typical Needy Armenians" on the November 1914 cover of "The Friend of Armenia" (London): Recycling of a Photograph from No Later than September 1, 1913 originally attesting "Massacre Victims in Rags"
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - August 28, 2014.

• An Armenian Orphan of the Genocide Gives Fuller Meaning to the Essence of a Painting
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - August 25, 2014.

• The Monument Shown on the Cover of Teodig's 1919 Book Entitled Hushartsan Abril Dasnamegi (Memorial April 11)
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - August 18, 2014.

• Conceptualizing the Attempt to Annihilate the Armenians of Turkey: two 1915 cartoons by William Charles Morris
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - April 23, 2014.

• Who Today with Armenian Roots or Connections Knows Anything about `Papier d'Arménie?'
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - March 18, 2014.

• An Orphan of the Armenian Genocide: A Valentine's Day Armenian Poster Child
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - February 14, 2014.

• Christmas Celebration for Armenian Orphans in Mezerh (Kharpert) Jan. 8th, 1920
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - January 6, 2014.

• Finding a Photograph for a Caption: Dr. Ruth A. Parmelee's Comments on some Euphrates (Yeprad) College Professors and their Fate during the Armenian Genocide
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - June 27, 2011.

• Filling in the Picture: Postscript to a Description of the Well-Known 1915 Photograph of Armenian Men of Kharpert Being Led Away under Armed Guard
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - June 13, 2011.

• "A Brief Assessment of the Ravished Armenia Marquee Poster" by Amber Karlins; published as a Research Note in the Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - December 12, 2010.

• Dirt Poor, Desperate, Burdened with Heart-Wrenching Decisions Concerning Her Three Children: the appalling woes of an Armenian woman from Geghi (Erzerum Vilayet) after the Hamidian Massacres: A publicity photograph of 1899
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - September 7, 2010.

• Saga of a Forged Photograph from the Armenian Genocide Era
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - February 22, 2010.

• Massacres Averted in Mamouret ul Aziz [Kharpert] in April 1909
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - December 16, 2009.

• Two Grand Armenian Ladies of New Mexico Pass Away
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - July 20, 2007.

• Mary C. Masterson, Daughter of Harput Consul William W Masterson, 92
• By Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor - June 11, 2007.