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Bukharan girls in Samarkand, c. 1900

Jewish girls in Samarkand (modern-day Uzbekistan) circa 1900. Photograph from Russia, created as part of work to document the Russian Empire from 1909 to 1915. Via United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID prok.02295.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Bukharan girls in Samarkand, c. 1900." (Viewed on June 15, 2026) <https://qa.jwa.org/media/bukharan-girls-samarkand-c-1900>.