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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 9494895, member: 8267&quot;]I went through the inventory of Eisenmann (and Wendt) photographs on the Syracuse website that [USER=1476]@Debora[/USER] posted, but did not find another copy of this particular photograph.</p><p><br /></p><p>More information surely lies in the inscription. But some portions are difficult to interpret, partly because it is in a foreign language. Transliteration of African names, including place names, is also extremely variable.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Sorriah&quot; may be more commonly written as Soraya, which is a name derived from Arabic. Usually a woman&#039;s name, this might be consistent with an origin in West Africa where Islam is a major religion. There is at least one occurrence of Soraya as a surname in the Lagunes District of Cote&nbsp; d&#039;Ivoire.&nbsp; <a href="https://forebears.io/surnames/soraya" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://forebears.io/surnames/soraya" rel="nofollow">https://forebears.io/surnames/soraya</a></p><p><br /></p><p>If the inscription follows standard western practice (which is not certain), it seems it would be in the form of - first name, last name, town or village name, larger regional name. But I have so far not been able to find corresponding geographic names.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=82016]@New Bowery[/USER] - is there any additional information on the back of the photograph?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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