PhotographAA-0526

"Happy little refugees" at Baqubah camp

Place: Baqubah · today Iraq
Date: 1918

Five children crouch at the edge of a pool of water on the flat plain of the Baqubah camp, two soldiers in sun helmets standing behind. Captioned "Happy Little Refugees".

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

Marie Gillespie

"Happy little refugees" at Baqubah camp

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