ONE YEAR BEFORE
THE IRAQ MUSEUM

Photo Studies of
Iraq, 1925


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11.
The Shrine of Shiekh Omar surrounded by muslim cemeteries


12.
The tomb of Sitt Zubayda, Baghdad the wife of Harun El Rashid the fourth Abbasid caliph


13.
The Kadimain, the Holy City near Baghdad, from an aeroplane


14.
The golden domes and minarets of the Kadimain Mosque


15.
The entrance gate of the Kadimain Mosque leading to the tomb of the Imam Moosa Al Kadim


16.
Tallisim, the tower of the ancient baghdad rampart which was built by Abri Jaffar Al Mansour the first founder of Baghdad in the year 730 AD. This tower was blown down by the Turks in their evacuation of Baghdad in 1917.


17.
The Maude Bridge Baghdad


18.
The Koutah Bridge, Baghdad


19.
Pilgrims with their camels on their way to Kerbala


20.
Religious ceremonies



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Photos by A. Kerim, 1925, published by the Hasso Brothers in Baghdad and printed by Rotophot A.G. in Berlin.

Harvard Semitic Museum Photographic Archives

Courtesy of the Fine Arts Library, Harvard College Library

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