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Aerial view of the Baqubah refugee camp on the Diyala

Place: Baqubah · today Iraq
Date: 1919

Rows of bell tents of the Baqubah refugee camp stretch along the bank of the Diyala river, seen from the air. The negative is marked "CA.906 29.1.19", suggesting January 1919; Commons dates it 1920.

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Wikimedia Commons (from The National Archives, UK, CN 5/2/397)

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Aerial view of the Baqubah refugee camp on the Diyala

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