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Refugee children at Baqubah

Place: Baqubah · today Iraq
Date: 1918

Two photographs on a scrapbook page captioned "Baquba": a girl and women in head cloths, and a smiling child in a long coat and headscarf among other 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

Refugee children at Baqubah

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