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

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

Boy scouts with drums and flags march through a street in Aleppo, in a colour photograph of the Sixth Regiment of Syriac Scouts dated to the 1980s.

Sixth Regiment of Syriac Scouts marching in Aleppo, 1980s

A large crowd fills the street outside St George's Church in Aleppo for the funeral of the Syriac Orthodox priest Fr. Habib Tokhmeji, around 1973.

Crowd at the funeral of Fr. Habib Tokhmeji, Aleppo, 1973

Two young men act a scene at a draped table in the Syriac Scouts' production of "Nadamat Bakhil" (A Miser's Regret), staged on 12 January 1958 according to the source.

Syriac Scouts stage the play "Nadamat Bakhil", Aleppo, 1958

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

A group of boys and young women in uniform poses in front of the Bani Taghlib Second School in 1972. The source names many of them.

Pupils and teachers at the Bani Taghlib Second School, 1972

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

Large group of pupils and teachers in a schoolyard, with a printed heading in French, Syriac and Arabic: "Association de St Jacob d'École Syrien Or., Alep (Syrie)".

St Jacob of Edessa Association of the Syriac Orthodox School, Aleppo

Fourteen young men in suits pose for a group portrait with a handwritten Syriac caption dated 1938. The source names them, including Youssef Na'em, whom it calls the author.

Syriac youth assembly in Aleppo, 1938

Formal group portrait of men of the Syriac community of Aleppo in 1935, several in fezzes and some in traditional robes, with a Syriac Orthodox priest seated in the centre. The source names every row.

Men of the Syriac community of Aleppo, 1935

Large group of men, women and children of the Mor Ephrem Syriac Orthodox school in Aleppo, seated with Bishop Hanna Abaji and clergy before an arcaded building, with a Syriac (Garshuni) inscription along the bottom. The parish's file name dates it to July 1927.

Mor Ephrem Syriac Orthodox school, Aleppo, with Bishop Hanna Abaji, 1927

Consecration of the Virgin Mary church in Paramus, 1968

Urmia refugees on horseback trekking through Bijar, 1918

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