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

Franciscan sisters in white wimples with assistant teachers and girl pupils in local dress and headdresses, posed in rows at the Capuchin mission school in Mardin in 1904. The pupils were likely from Mardin's Syriac, Chaldean and Armenian Christian families.

Franciscan sisters, teachers and pupils of the mission school, Mardin

A large group of boys and girls of the Assyrian Orphanage in Adana pose in front of an arched building with their teachers and leaders, among them the monk Hanna (Yuhanon) Dolabani. Photographed by Abrohom Nuro in 1921.

Students and staff of the Assyrian orphanage in Adana, 1921

Rows of boys in long tunics and caps stand behind seated Syriac Orthodox clergy at the Deyrulzafaran (Mor Hananyo) monastery near Mardin in 1918. The source identifies the group as the monk Hanna Dolabani with orphaned students.

Monk Hanna Dolabani with orphaned students at Deyrulzafaran, 1918

About sixty girls in headscarves sit and stand in rows with two male teachers and several women at the girls' school in Supurghan, a village of the Urmia plain, in 1904. Published in G. D. Malech's History of the Syrian Nation (1910).

Girls' school in Supurghan, Urmia, 1904

Eleven young women in white dresses and headscarves pose in two rows before a large patterned rug, which the caption says was their own handiwork; they are captioned as graduates of the Girls' Industrial School at Urumia ("since closed"). Plate from the 1916 pamphlet "The Pitiful Plight of the Assyrian Christians in Persia and Kurdistan."

Graduates of the Girls' Industrial School at Urmia

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

Malik Ismail II of Upper Tiyari at Baqubah

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.

Franciscan sisters, teachers and pupils of the mission school, Mardin

Students and staff of the Assyrian orphanage in Adana, 1921

Monk Hanna Dolabani with orphaned students at Deyrulzafaran, 1918

Girls' school in Supurghan, Urmia, 1904

Graduates of the Girls' Industrial School at Urmia

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