Between 26 November to 23 December 1923, and 2 March to 15 March 1924, Herzfeld spent six weeks on the terrace of Persepolis, where he drafted a plan of the structure and provided a photographic record of the site. This gelatin silver print forms part of this photographic record. The photograph is titled "Northwest corner of platform" in pencil in the album and is placed alongside a second photograph providing a panoramic view of the area in question.
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A glass negative of this image is located in the Ernst Herzfeld papers, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The glass negative location number is FSA A.6 04.GN.2270. The second image is also referenced in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives with the glass negative having a location number FSA A.6 04.GN.2269.