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On the flight from Urmia toward Baqubah, 1918

Place: Persia · today Iran
Date: 1918

Pack horses, riders and loaded carts halt beside a wall on the 1918 flight from Urmia. The verso reads "On flight from Urumia Rezaiyeh, whole city 50,000 in flight to tented city at Bakuba" and notes that Dr. Shedd died on the journey.

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Presbyterian Historical Society, Pearl Digital Collections (photographs from the estate of Marie Gillespie, missionary to Iran, 1917-1940)

Marie Gillespie

On the flight from Urmia toward Baqubah, 1918

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