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Chaldean father and his two daughters in Mesopotamia

Place: Mesopotamia · today Iraq
Date: 1910s

A seated man in a light robe with two long-haired girls in white dresses standing either side of him, in front of a brick wall and doorway. Captioned by the photographer as a Chaldean household; taken during the Mesopotamia campaign of 1915–1919.

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Charles Henry Weaver

Chaldean father and his two daughters in Mesopotamia

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