PhotographAA-0519

Column of refugees on the flight from Urmia, 1918

Place: Persia · today Iran
Date: 1918

A long column of people and animals stretches across a plain, captioned in ink "Flight from Urumia 1918". Cropped from a scrapbook page of Baqubah refugee camp photographs.

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

Marie Gillespie

Column of refugees on the flight from Urmia, 1918

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