Graduates of the Girls' Industrial School at Urmia

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Graduates of the Girls' Industrial School at Urmia

Place
Urmia · today Iran
Date
1916

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."

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Source

Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books

Rockwell, William Walker (New York: American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief) · The books in this collection are in the public domain and are free to use and reuse.