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Four refugees reach the American relief station in Urmia

Place: Urmia · today Iran
Date: 1910s

Four refugees, two men and two women, stand in rags and wrapped footwear after reaching the American Relief Station in Urmia, 1918–1919. The War Department caption does not name their community; they were possibly Assyrian or Armenian.

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Near East Relief Historical Society digital archive (holding institution: US National Archives and Records Administration)

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Four refugees reach the American relief station in Urmia

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