Collections : [University of Michigan History of Art Visual Resources Collection]

The Donald Newton Wilber collection is comprised of approximately 2,500 black-and-white negatives of Iranian architectural monuments. The collection depicts monuments from the Achaemenid and Sasanian empires.

The Donald Newton Wilber collection is comprised of approximately 2,500 black and white negatives depicting tombs, shrines, mosques, gardens and bridges throughout Iran. The negatives depict Wilber's work in Iran during the 1930's when he studied the architectural monuments of Iran, including the Shrine of Imam Riza in Mashhad, the Do Minar Dardasht in Isfahan, and the Achaemenid tomb in Naqsh-i-Rustam. Some of the monuments date from the Archaemenid (550-330 CE) or Sasanian Empires (224-651 CE).