PhotographAA-0427

Girls' school at Tel Keppe, about 1924

Place: Tel Keppe · today Iraq
Date: 1920s

Pupils of a girls' school in Tel Keppe stand in rows in a courtyard in patterned traditional dresses, with nuns or teachers and a bearded priest at either side. Plate XI of Harry Luke's Mosul and Its Minorities (1925).

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Luke, Mosul and Its Minorities (1925), via Internet Archive

Harry Charles Luke (author; most photographs his own) · Published 1925; public domain in the US.

Girls' school at Tel Keppe, about 1924

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