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Water supply at the Nestorian (Assyrian) refugee camp, Baghdad, 1927

PhotographAA-0136

Water supply at the Nestorian (Assyrian) refugee camp, Baghdad, 1927

Place
Baghdad · today Iraq
Date
1927
Refugees

Women and girls with tins and buckets crowd around two large water tanks at the Nestorian refugee camp in Baghdad, 1927, while men stand on the tank platform. From Barclay Acheson's Near East Relief photographs.

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Source

Near East Relief Historical Society digital archive (holding institution: Rockefeller Archive Center)

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