PhotographAA-0613

A group of Assyrian orphan girls

Date: 1910s

Photograph of about fifteen girls in dresses and headscarves standing in a row against a wall, many of them knitting. Werda's caption says hundreds of such orphans had no books or schools.

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Werda, The Flickering Light of Asia, or the Assyrian Nation and Church (1924), via Internet Archive

Werda, Joel E. · Public domain in the United States (published before 1931)

A group of Assyrian orphan girls

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