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Some Iranian and Afghan Portraits in thePublic Record Office
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2009
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For several years now the Lafayette Project has beencompiling a data base of portrait photographs fromthe Copy I collection at the Public Record Office,Kew (PRO). The Lafayette Project was founded tofurther the cataloguing of historic photographs andfunding by the Elm Trust has enabled the project toset new standards for the documentation of historicphotographs based on careful analysis of an imageand its contents as a historical source. The database is a means not only of investigating portraitsbut also a starting point for entering into thewider scope of the collection to pursue historicalresearch.
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4 I am grateful to Barbara Borkowy (researcher for the Lafayette Project) for allowing me to consult her unpublished study of Count Ostrorog's career.