HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTIONS
Iraq: A Visual Memory of Mesopotamia
Historical photographs of Iraqi cities and daily life, from Baghdad to Mosul, the Tigris and Euphrates banks, and ancient settlements.Inside this collection
Cities, places and album subjects
Baghdad163 images ↗Location unconfirmed83 images ↗Mosul52 images ↗Babylon29 images ↗Ur21 images ↗Kirkuk21 images ↗Hillah16 images ↗Najaf17 images ↗Karbala14 images ↗Qayyarah12 images ↗Erbil11 images ↗Al-Mada’in11 images ↗Borsippa9 images ↗Al Kifl10 images ↗Hindiya6 images ↗Kufa6 images ↗Kish5 images ↗Tell al-Ubaid4 images ↗Assur3 images ↗Nimrud3 images ↗Iraq Album · 192372 images ↗Basra7 images ↗Amarah1 images ↗
Mosul — Qara Saray
36.3416, 43.1291
A bookbinding workshop in Mosul, 1890
36.3416, 43.1291
A prisoner of war comforting his son in Najaf, 2003
32.0010, 44.3300
The funeral of Goltz Pasha
Location not yet established
British soldiers captured at Kut al-Amara, 1916
32.5010, 45.8296
A British flag being raised at the Ottoman headquarters in Kirkuk
35.4719, 44.3954
Ottoman soldiers captured by the British army
Location not yet established
Ottoman soldiers captured by the British army
Location not yet established
Babylon Basalt Lion. Closer front view, probably a Hittite war trophy
32.5447, 44.4318
Wool washing on Tigris banks at Mosul
36.3416, 43.1291
Nimrud, 20 miles S. of Mosul
36.0982, 43.3289
Nimrud (20 S. of Mosul) Assyrian capital 900-800 B.C
36.0982, 43.3289
Scene near Kerbela
32.5984, 44.0158
Rev. Panfil's house, Mosul
36.3416, 43.1291
Mosul
36.3416, 43.1291
Mosul
36.3416, 43.1291
Mosul, minaret
36.3416, 43.1291
Camp near Kerbela
32.5984, 44.0158
Mosul
36.3416, 43.1291
Kerbela
32.5984, 44.0158
Babylon
32.5447, 44.4318
Babylon
32.5447, 44.4318
Lion's den, Babylon
32.5447, 44.4318
Mosul
36.3416, 43.1291