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Assyrian orphans at the Baqubah refugee camp

Place: Baqubah · today Iraq
Date: 1910s

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.

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Austin, The Baqubah Refugee Camp (1920), via Internet Archive

H. H. Austin · Public domain (published 1920)

Assyrian orphans at the Baqubah refugee camp

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