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

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

Place
Urmia · today Iran
Date
1917

An older woman in a headscarf and patched coat stands with three children in patterned dresses and caps against a brick wall. The Red Cross caption describes them as "a group of Tiarians who are being helped by the Armenian Committee in Urumia, Persia"; the photograph was received in November 1917.

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Source

Library of Congress, American National Red Cross photograph collection

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