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

Dawid Mar Shimun, Assyrian military leader and relative of the patriarch, in a fur cap and British-style uniform at Baqubah, 1918–1919 (crop from a group photograph).

Dawid Mar Shimun at Baqubah

Malik Ismail II, chief of the Tiyari tribe, sits in a tall white felt hat, embroidered waistcoat and sash with a dagger at his waist, at Baqubah, 1918–1919 (crop from a group photograph).

Malik Ismail II of Upper Tiyari at Baqubah

Rows of bell tents of the Baqubah refugee camp stretch along the bank of the Diyala river, seen from the air. The negative is marked "CA.906 29.1.19", suggesting January 1919; Commons dates it 1920.

Aerial view of the Baqubah refugee camp on the Diyala

An inscribed stone obelisk headed "In Memoriam" stands on a stepped plinth inside a wire fence at the Baqubah camp, with tents behind. The English inscription says thousands of Christian Assyrians from the mountains of Kurdistan and Van and the districts of Salmas and Urmia lie there; a side panel in Syriac and English names Mar Paulus Shimun, Patriarch of the East.

Memorial stone at the Baqubah refugee camp, 1920

A group of maliks, the chiefs of the Nestorian (Assyrian) mountain tribes from Turkey, in embroidered tribal dress, posed in two rows before the tents of the Baqubah refugee camp in 1919.

Maliks of the Assyrian mountain tribes at Baqubah, 1919

Tents and people in the section of the Baqubah refugee camp allotted to Assyrians of the Tiyari tribe. High-contrast black-and-white scan of a halftone plate.

Tents of the Tiyari section at the Baqubah camp

A crowd of men, women and children of the Tkhuma tribe, captioned as "mountaineer Assyrians", gathered beside a tent at the Baqubah refugee camp. High-contrast black-and-white scan of a halftone plate.

Tkhuma mountaineer Assyrians at the Baqubah camp

A long line of Assyrian orphans with Mr. Neesan at the orphanage section of the Baqubah refugee camp, from the commandant's 1920 account of the camp. The plate is printed sideways in the book and the scan is a high-contrast black-and-white copy.

Assyrian orphans at the Baqubah refugee camp

Patriarch Abraham Mar Shimun

Mountain refugees in the Russian consulate, Urmia

View over the rooftops of Urmia

British soldier tending a Jilu Assyrian refugee child

Assyrian children in a remote village of Hakkari, c. 1900

Assyrian woman in traditional jewellery at Tel Tamer, 1938

Map of the country of the Assyrian Christians, 1920

Assyrian fighters from Jilu, 1918

Nestorian (Assyrian) house in Tiyari

Nun with a gospel at the Church of the Virgin, Hah, 1909

A Syrian (Assyrian) girl, 1891 engraving

Two Chaldean women of Mardin

Syriac and Chaldean women and girls of Mardin province

Jilu Assyrian refugees cooking with a British soldier, 1918

Tiyari (Assyrian) refugees helped by the Armenian Committee in Urmia, 1917

Elderly Assyrian man at Tel Tamer, 1938

Assyrian refugees from Tiyari and Tkhuma encamped near Urmia, 1915

Entrance to the Syriac Orthodox church of St. Mark, Jerusalem

Syriac-rite Mass with Cardinal Tappouni at the 1937 Paris Exposition

Syriac cultural centre in Varberga, Örebro

Bear hunters at Qudshanis

Archbishop Julius Abdulahad Gallo Shabo at a church founding ceremony, Örebro

Jilu Assyrian mother giving her child a drink, 1918

Jacobite (Syriac Orthodox) women drawing water at Midyat, Tur Abdin

Nestorian (Assyrian) Christian family, studio portrait by Sevruguin

Stera and Warina, survivors of the massacres

St Peter and St Paul Syriac Orthodox church, Hallunda

Faces, places & memories of the Assyrian people.