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Christian refugees given quilts by the Armenian and Syrian Relief, Urmia

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Christian refugees given quilts by the Armenian and Syrian Relief, Urmia

Place
Urmia · today Iran
Date
1910s
RefugeesWorld WarMission

Refugee women, men and children sit before a brick building with the quilts they have just received. The album caption, credited to Dr. W. A. Shedd of Urumia, says over four hundred refugee families were living in two villages and that the Armenian and Syrian Relief gave them 300 quilts.

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Source

General Commission on Archives and History of the United Methodist Church, GCAH Mission Albums Gallery (Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church photograph albums)

Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church

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