ONE YEAR BEFORE
THE IRAQ MUSEUM

Photo Studies of
Iraq, 1925


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61.
Mar Behnan, the monastery near the lower Yab River


62.
Qura Serai a portion of the old fortress at Mosul which has been used as a jail by the Turks centuries ago


63.
Jami El Kebir or the large mosque with the tallest minaret in Mosul


64.
Kurdish lady in her best costume of black Persian silk with silver belt and her necklace of amber beads with Turkish gold coins attached


65.
A Kurdish tribesman from southern Kurdistan


66.
A group of Assyrian mountaineers


67.
At Mosul where the bank of the river used as a laundry


68.
Bejeweled women of Telkif village near Mosul


69.
A ten years old Childean bride in her wedding dress


70.
Arab women of the desert



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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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