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Costumed students of the Syro-Chaldean Seminary of St. Jean, Mosul

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Costumed students of the Syro-Chaldean Seminary of St. Jean, Mosul

Place
Mosul · today Iraq
Date
1936
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Students of the Syro-Chaldean Seminary of St. Jean in Mosul pose in costume for a play, several in Napoleonic bicorne hats and holding rifles, with one in a false white beard and one seated. Dated 22 January 1936; the seminary had a long tradition of theatre.

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