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Elderly man in mountain dress at Baqubah refugee camp

Place: Baqubah · today Iraq
Date: 1918

An old man with a white beard, felt cap, embroidered jacket and staff stands among other refugees at the Baqubah camp. Uncaptioned; likely an Assyrian from the Hakkari mountains.

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

Marie Gillespie

Elderly man in mountain dress at Baqubah refugee camp

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