A line of barefoot girls in headscarves and long patterned skirts carry large clay water jars on their backs past a brick wall. Newton & Co lantern slide no. 50 from the series "The Persians, Kurds, and Nestorians, their manners and customs", attributed by the Nelson Collection to Ernest Hoeltzer, late 19th century; published in The Living Races of Mankind (1901) as "Armenians water-carrying (Nestorians)" and by D'Allemagne (1911) as "Jeunes filles Nestoriennes faisant le métier de porteuses d'eau" (young Nestorian women working as water carriers).

Nestorian (Assyrian) girls carrying water jars

Iraqi Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Qasim (third from left) with Metropolitan Mar Yousip Khnanisho and Bishop Mar Esho Sargis at the opening of the Assyrian Church of the East's Mar Zayya church in Baghdad; the source dates it to the 1960s, and Qasim was in office until February 1963.

Abd al-Karim Qasim at the opening of Mar Zayya church, Baghdad

A crowd of uniformed Syriac Scouts and townspeople, some playing horns, gathered in a street in Qamishli, likely in the 1960s.

Syriac Scouts and crowd in Qamishli, 1960s

Children in white, the boys in dark jackets, at a ceremonial communion at the Syriac Orthodox St George's Church in Aleppo in 1964.

First communion at St George's Church, Aleppo, 1964

The Al-Shahba football team, a club of Aleppo's Syriac community, poses after beating Al-Shabiba 3–0 at the municipal stadium on 22 April 1968 to win the Second Division Championship, under the patronage of Bishop Mor Dionysius George Behnam.

Al-Shahba Sports Club after winning the second division, Aleppo, 1968

Teacher Georgette Arshelia with young pupils at their desks in the kindergarten of the second Beni Taghleb school in 1964, according to the source.

Beni Taghleb school kindergarten, Aleppo, 1964

Page of colour photographs printed with the caption "Consecration of the Assyrian Apostolic Church of the Virgin Mary, April 7, 1968": the archbishop celebrating at the altar under stained glass, clergy and deacons, and the full church.

First liturgy at the newly consecrated Paramus church, 1968

Colour photographs of the consecration of the Virgin Mary church in Paramus on April 7, 1968: the archbishop anointing the walls, clergy reading at the altar, and the congregation in the new church.

Consecration of the Virgin Mary church in Paramus, 1968

Mar Athanasius Yeshue Samuel, Assyrian (Syriac) Orthodox Archbishop of the U.S. and Canada, with Rev. John Khoury and trustees president Thomas Esehak at the laying of the cornerstone, dated 1967, of the Virgin Mary church in Paramus on September 17, 1967.

Archbishop Athanasius Samuel lays the Paramus cornerstone, 1967

Page of six photographs showing the construction of the church and church hall in Paramus, New Jersey: the domed roof framing, the cross being raised and the hall under construction.

Building the Virgin Mary church in Paramus, 1967

Cover and menu of the printed program for Consecration Day of the "Assyrian Apostolic Church of the Virgin Mary", 644 Paramus Road, Paramus, New Jersey, Sunday, April 7, 1968, with a drawing of the new church. The menu notes altar flowers donated by St. Leon's Armenian Church of Fair Lawn.

Consecration Day program of the Virgin Mary church in Paramus, 1968

Urmia refugees on horseback trekking through Bijar, 1918

View over the rooftops of Urmia

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