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Dr. Shedd with refugees in the city compound, Urmia, 1918

Place: Urmia · today Iran
Date: 1918

Dr. William Ambrose Shedd, the American missionary (likely the man in the white suit), among refugees seated with their bundles in the city compound at Urmia in 1918.

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Shedd, The Measure of a Man (1922), via Internet Archive

Mary Lewis Shedd · Public domain (published 1922)

Dr. Shedd with refugees in the city compound, Urmia, 1918

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