Armenian News Network / Groong
Photograph of ÒTypical
Needy ArmeniansÓ on the November 1914 cover of ÒThe Friend of ArmeniaÓ (London): Recycling of a Photograph from No
Later than September 1, 1913 originally attesting ÒMassacre Victims in RagsÓ
Armenian News Network /
Groong
August 28, 2014
Special to Groong by Abraham D. Krikorian
and Eugene L. Taylor
Long Island, NY
Armenians in England: the history up to the 20-ies of the XXth Century by R Yeghiazaryan, Yason Printing
House, Yerevan, 2014) is only 352 pages long but it is full of information and
contains many rich research leads. It
is well-referenced. Whether this book gets the attention it
deserves is something that we cannot predict of course. Far too few copies were printed — according
to the inside cover, only 100 copies.
Because of our interest in imagery
and photographs we will use this opportunity to draw attention to what is on its
soft cover.
The photograph reproduced on the
journal issue is of considerable interest not only because it is attractive in
a morose way but it discloses considerable skill and
sensitivity on the part of the ÔoriginatorÕ of the photograph in selecting an
image that would elicit sympathy and outpouring of support — hopefully in
the form of financial help. We use
the word ÔoriginatorÕ since it may well have been a deliberately posed
photograph instigated by someone such as a missionary care giver who saw an
opportunity to capture on film a perfect image to evoke pathos. So far, we have not located an original
photographic print.
The image is also of no little
interest because it derives from at least no later than 1 September 1913. (In Lain the expression used is terminus ante quem.)
That is the date of the first
printing-ÔeditionÕ of the small (191 page long) volume bearing the title What
Next in Turkey. Glimpses of the American BoardÕs Work in the Near East
by David Brewer Eddy (The American Board, Boston, 1913). This volume is accessible online at https://archive.org/details/whatnextinturke00eddygooghe
The following photographic
enlargements of the image in the Eddy volume are presented below to show in
better detail the people in question.
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