SAEDNEWS: A quiet, dusty view of Toopkhaneh Square, featuring a waste collector alongside his donkeys and a water carrier with his water skin, jug, and bowl. Through these photographs, we take you back to scenes from the daily lives of people in Iran during the Qajar era.
According to the society section of the Saed News analytical platform, citing Faradid, these photographs can be viewed repeatedly, and each time something new can be discovered in them—from the details of clothing and facial expressions to the appearance of houses, streets, and everything else that has changed greatly over more than a century.
The first photo today depicts the northern side of Toopkhaneh Square in the late Qajar era and possibly the early Pahlavi period. In the background of this image, the Municipality Palace (Baladiyeh building), or the old city hall, can be seen. This beautiful building was designed by Nikolai Markov, a Georgian architect living in Iran, and it was demolished in the 1960s.
The second photo, as can be understood from the old caption beneath it, shows city sanitation workers along with donkeys that were used to transport waste.
The final image is also an interesting photograph of a water carrier (saqqa), who apparently carried water using various tools and containers.
