Knife sharpening business at a bazaar in Stalinabad (Dushanbe), Tajikistan, Central Asia, ca. 1932-1933

Jacobi, Lotte, 1896-1990

Description

Photograph of a knife sharpening business at a bazaar in Stalinabad (Dushanbe), taken by Lotte Jacobi in Tajikistan, Central Asia, ca. 1932-1933. Two men wearing coats are sitting at a bazaar sharpening knives. One man is pulling a strap over an axle between two wooden blocks, rotating a stone that the other man is using to sharpen a knife.