
ONE YEAR BEFORE
THE IRAQ MUSEUM
Photo Studies of
Iraq, 1925

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A Jewish family of Baghdad
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The mullah teaching a prayer to a young man
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The famous arch of Ctesiphon built nearly fourteen centries ago by Chosrowes I
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Ctesiphon as it looks from an aeroplane
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The ruins of Babylon, the temple of Marzuk
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The Ruins of Babylon - inscription on the "Ishtar Gate"
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The lion that for centuries has dominated the ruins of Babylon
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Baghdad and the Tigris
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Smiling faces
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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
©2003 by Iraq Museum International