ONE YEAR BEFORE
THE IRAQ MUSEUM

Photo Studies of
Iraq, 1925


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31.
A Jewish family of Baghdad


32.
The mullah teaching a prayer to a young man


33.
The famous arch of Ctesiphon built nearly fourteen centries ago by Chosrowes I


34.
Ctesiphon as it looks from an aeroplane


35.
The ruins of Babylon, the temple of Marzuk


36.
The Ruins of Babylon - inscription on the "Ishtar Gate"


37.
The lion that for centuries has dominated the ruins of Babylon


38.
Baghdad and the Tigris


39.
Smiling faces


40.
The interior court of Sheikh Abdulkader el Kaylani Mosque



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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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