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Jilu Assyrian children gathered at Baqubah refugee camp

Place: Baqubah · today Iraq
Date: 1919

A crowd of boys and small girls in caps and smocks poses for the camera, with a European man behind them. Rowden's album titles it "Jelu Boys", at Baqubah, about 1919.

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Lucerna Magic Lantern Web Resource; Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter (Rowden Collection)

Jilu Assyrian children gathered at Baqubah refugee camp

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