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Mission Photograph Album - Western Asia O.P. #1

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Title

Mission Photograph Album - Western Asia O.P. #1

Description

Images related to Methodist mission work in Africa taken under the direction of the Board of Missions between the 1900s and late 1920s

Date

1910-1920s

Creator

Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church

Subject

Missions
Western Asia

Rights

Permission for use must be obtained from the General Commission on Archives and History. Contact e-mail is research@gcah.org

Publisher

The General Commission on Archives and History of The United Methodist Church. The United Methodist Archives and History Center. Madison, New Jersey

Identifier

Mission Photograph Albums - Western Asia O.P. #1

Scriptus

Status

Complete

Percent Completed

100

Items in the Mission Photograph Album - Western Asia O.P. #1 Collection


English nurses, Gloucester Castle, on their way to the Near East.

Saloniki, Greece.

56798 Bird's eye - Robert College, Constantinople. Turkey.

Bird's eye - Robert College, Constantinople. Turkey.


Bird's eye - Robert College, Constantinople. Turkey.

American Commission Relief on their way to Smyrna, Near East.

Group of Americans depart for Smyrna, Near East.


56784 Loading battleship with flour for Near East relief.

Turkish palace, Constantinople, Turkey.

Prinkipo: the relief ship off for Syria.

Near Derinji, Mesopotamia.


56793 Relief train of the American Commission Relief of the Near East off
for Syria.

Goats at Derinji, American Commission Relief of the Near East off for
Syria.

56780 English "Tommies," Eregli, Kastamun. Turkey.

Relief train of the American Commission Relief of the Near East.
Eskishehr, Brusa, Turkey.


Wheat warehouses, Plains Station, Near East.

Bee Hive, Asia Minor.

German plan of development, Asia Minor.

American relief train on the plains of Mesopotamia.


56783 Sunset near Konieh, Near East.

Military station, Asia Minor American Commission.

56779 Relief train on the plains.

56824 View toward Konium, ancient Iconium.


56777 Camels at Konieh, Near East.

Station - at Oulan Kichla, en route Near East relief.

Station at Oulan Kichla, en route Near East relief. Point where goods
transhipped by caravan.

Dr. Washburn signing release for refugee girl. American Commission Relief
of the Near East, Oulan Kichla.


Wheat storage near Tchifte Khan, American Commission Relief of the Near
East.

British guard, Tchifte Khan, Near East.

The baths, Tchifte Khan, Near East.

56797 Bozanti, en route American Commission Relief of the Near East.


56773 Soldiers near Tchifte Khan, Near East.

Train load of war salvage. Tchifte Khan, Near East.

56781 Looking west from Bozanti, Near East.

Gorge mouth below Cilician Gates. Near East. View from Tarsus, looking
toward Taurus Mountains. Small Mosque by road.


Adana Orphanage, Adana, Cilicia.

56770 Adana Orphanage, Adana, Cilicia.

American lieutenant who found his sister in Aleppo, Syria.

56792 Citadel at Aleppo, Syria.


56789 Irrigation pump at Aleppo, Syria.

Ancient pump, Aleppo, Syria.

56750 Camel train, Aleppo, Syria.

Way station, Syria plains.


Euphrates River, Mesopotamia.

Relief train along Euphrates River, Mesopotamia.

Ruins, Carchemish, Euphrates River, Mesopotamia.

Military camp, Euphrates River, Mesopotamia.


56796 Euphrates Valley, Mesopotamia.

American relief train near Euphrates River. Mesopotamia.

Familiar mound cultivated field near Mardin. Mesopotamia.

River Euphrates looking toward Carchemish. Mesopotamia.


American relief train for the Near East, near Serublisse. Mesopotamia.

Panorama - Mesopotamia.

56795 Station - at Mardin. Mesopotamia.

View of Mardin. Mesopotamia.


German villa, Mardin. Mesopotamia.

Near the city gates of Mardin. Mesopotamia.

Bird's eye view of Mardin. Mesopotamia.

Bird's eye view of Mardin. Mesopotamia.


Milling the one live enterprise in Mardin.

Market - at Mardin. Mesopotamia.

Armenian graveyard. Bozanti. Near East.

Massacred Armenians, Bozanti.


56805 Massacred Armenians. Bozanti, Near East.

56819 View, Near Bozanti, Near East, Taurus Range.

Among the Taurus Mountains, Near East.

American Commission Relief of the Near East train stopping for breakfast
en route Adana, Mesopotamia.


Gorge in the Taurus Mountains, Adana, Cilicia.

Gorge in the Taurus Mountains, Adana, Cilicia.

Gorge in the Taurus Mountains, Adana, Cilicia.

Two English non-commissioned officers. Mardion, Mesopotamia.


Miss McMichael of the American Commission Relief of the Near East at the
Izzet Pasha Divide. Mesopotamia.

Relief smear, the American Commission Relief of the Near East doctor.

Native dispatch bearer connected with the American Commission Relief of
the Near East.


Armenian child and an American doctor of the American Commission Relief of
the Near East.

56788 Sunday walk children under the care of the American Commission
Relief of the Near East.

56804 American relief workers at the highway of Diarbekr. Mesopotamia.

Near East refugees under the care of the American Commission Relief of the
Near East.


The only male survivors of a Massacre in Mardin, Near East.

Native refugees at the hospital, Mardin. Mesopotamia.

Arabians who worked with the American Commission Relief of the Near East.

At the American Commission Relief of the Near East Hospital. Mardin,
Mesopotamia.


56775 Refugees working in the hospital for the American Commission Relief
of the Near East at Mardin, Mesopotamia.

56762 Kurdish Chief's daughter and native group, at the Mardin Hospital.
Mesopotamia.

Turkish Commander Izzet Pasha. Mesopotamia.

Turkish Commander Izzet Pasha and Turkish soldier. Mesopotamia.


56776 Across the Tigris River at Diarbekr. Mesopotamia.

Turkish father and son, Near East.

56758 Caravan at rest, en route Mardin, Mesopotamia.

American Commission Relief of the Near East travelling by camel train.
Mesopotamia.


56802 The Sheikh of Basra. Near East.

A Sheikh and party of Basra, Near East.

56790 Basra Arabs and outfit en route. Mesopotamia.

American Commission Relief of the Near East camel train climbing Mardin
Hill. Mesopotamia.


An Arab family of Mardin. Mesopotamia.

Kurdish stretcher and native bearer with chief.

56767 Member of the American Commission Relief of the Near East and
rescued child. Mardin, Mesopotamia.


Mardin house and citadel from a Mardin upper courtyard. Mesopotamia.

In a Mardin garden, Mardin, Mesopotamia.

Turkish Commander Izzet Pasha. Mesopotamia.


Watering the camel, Tigris River, Diarbekr. Mesopotamia.

56808 Miss Graf and Prisca, American Commission Relief of the Near East.

Making bergle, Lower Khanike, Mesopotamia.

The "Prot" and her rescued Moslems. American Commision Relief of the Near
East.


In a gareden of Mardin, with the American Commission Relief of the Near
East.

In a garden of Mardin, with the American Commission Relief of the Near
East.

In the compound, Mardin, Mesopotamia.

56752 Turkish Ferris wheel. Mesopotamia.

Bird's eye view of Diarbekr from Mosque. Mesopotamia.


Band concert. Canaan Beg and Sheikh, Basra, with the American Commission
Relief of the Near East.

Sheikh, Basra, with the American Commission Relief of the Near East.

56766 Entertainment by the Mardin Band for the Mardin American Commisssion
Relief of the Near East.

56791 Exercises for the American Commission Relief of the Near East at
Mardin. Mesopotamia.


A memshi, Mardin, Mesopotamia.

Mardin Street, Mardin, Mesopotamia.

Members of the American Commission Relief of the Near East.

56209 American Board Foreign Missions. Garden, Mardin, Mesopotamia.


Boys orphanage, Mardin, Mesopotamia.

Boys orphanage, Mardin, Mesopotamia.

56822 Refugees of Mesopotamia.

Threshing flour, Upper Khanike. Mesopotamia.


Threshing flour, Upper Khanike, Mesopotamia.

56763 Kurd Village. Diarbekr, Mesopotamia.

Native wheat rack near Diarbekr.

56761 Auto train of the American Commission Relief of the Near East,
Mesopotamia.


Collision of two auto trucks on Mardin Road. Mesopotamia.

Crane nest, Diarbekr. Mesopotamia.

Roman Bridge over Tigris River. Diarbekr, Mesopotamia.

American Commission Relief of the Near East make iron rolls for Mardin
Hospital. Mesopotamia.


56800 Native help at Mardin Hospital, Mardin, Mesopotamia.

Manual training shop of the American Commission Relief of the Near East.
Mardin, Mesopotamia.

Refugees being sent to their homes by the aid of the American Commission
Relief of the Near East.

56772 Boys orphanage Sunday exercises. Mardin, Mesopotamia.


Auto truck on the Mesopotamia plains.

Ancient pillars of Nisibin. Mesopotamia.

Turkish threshing machine. Nisibin, Mesopotamia.

Threshing, Nisibin, Mesopotamia.


Summer camp, Mardin garden. Mesopotamia.

Mardin garden. Mesopotamia.

German "left over" auto trucks. Diarbekr, Mesopotamia.

American Commission Relief of the Near East truck at the North Gate.
Diarbekr, Mesopotamia.


Interior Armenian church. Diarbekr, Mesopotamia.

Bird's eye view of Diarbekr, Mesopotamia.

Bird's eye view of Diarbekr, Mesopotamia.

Bird's eye view of Diarbekr, Mesopotamia.


Armenian orphanage. Diarbekr, Mesopotamia.

Armenian orphanage. Diarbekr, Mesopotamia.

Armenian orphanage. Diarbekr, Mesopotamia.

56771 Church whose spire crumpled. Diarbekr, Mesopotamia.


Members of the American Commission Relief of the Near East at Diarbekr,
Mesopotamia.

Members of the American Commission Relief of the Near East at Diarbekr,
Mesopotamia.

View up the Tigris River from Diarbekr. Mesopotamia.

Diarbekr walls. Mesopotamia.


Military Commander Halett Bey.

American Commission Relief of the Near East en route for Diarbekr.
Mesopotamia.

56753 A ruined Christian village. Kalat Mara. Near East.

A garden on the way to Quarry. Mesopotamia.


Member of the American Commission Relief of the Near East on the castle
top. Mesopotamia.

Native Christian on the castle top. Mesopotamia.

Burying the dead on the hillside. Diarbekr, Mesopotamia.


Jacobile Chapel in the Rock Cave, Mesopotamia.

Mardin Industrial Department of the American Commission Relief of the Near
East. Mesopotamia.

Primitive spinning. Mesopotamia.

Miss Wade of the American Commission Relief of the Near East and group
from Diarbekr. Mesopotamia.


Mardin market scene. Mesopotamia.

56787 Mardin town built by Christians who were later massacred.
Mesopotamia.

View of Mardin. Mesopotamia.


Group of American Commission Relief of the Near East and natives,
Mesopotamia.

Group of American Commission Relief of the Near East and natives.
Mesopotamia.

Members of the American Commission Relief of the Near East. Mesopotamia.

Swimming pool. Mesopotamia.


Hospital kitchen fitted with native stove. Mardin, Mesopotamia.

56765 Boys orphanage. Mardin, Mesopotamia.

Bird's eye view of plains of Mesopotamia.

Ibrahamish, a ruined-and-deserted city, Mesopotamia.


Natives working with the American Commission Relief of the Near East.
Mesopotamia

Osman Pasha and body guard. Mesopotamia.

Residence of Osman Pasha and friendly chiefs. Mesopotamia.

Some members of the American Commission Relief of the Near East.
Mesopotamia.


Members of the American Commission Relief of the Near East giving medical
treatment to natives. Mardin, Mesopotamia.

56811 American Commission Relief of the Near East pack train en route
Diarbekr, Mesopotamia.

Natives sleeping on roofs. Mardin, Mesopotamia.

Muteseriff and son-in-law. Mardin, Mesopotamia.


Village reclamation work. Diarbekr, Mesopotamia.

56759 Bird's eye view of Diarbekr, Mesopotamia.

Sunday evening song service. Mardin, Mesopotamia.


General Harward and Miss Fenenga of the American Commission Relief of the
Near East. Mesopotamia.

56751 General Haward and group at Mardin. Mesopotamia.

Along the Tigris Valley. Mesopotamia.

56803 Mohadjars on the way home. Diarbekr, Mesopotamia.


Ancient fendal castle. Aghana. Mardin, Mesopotamia.

Taurus Range Hills. Mesopotamia.

Typical native village. Mesopotamia.

Tigris River near Diarbekr. Mesopotamia.


Old German copper mines. Aghana. Mardin, Mesopotamia.

General Harward and party. Tigris River, Mesopotamia.

Roman bridge across Tigris River. Mesopotamia.

56760 Mountain road. Armenia.


Among the Mountains of Taurus. Mesopotamia.

A narrow pass in the Taurus Mountains. Mesopotamia.

Bird's eye view near Harpoot and Diarbekr. Mesopotamia.

Bird's eye view of Arghana, Mardin, Mesopotamia.


Bird's eye view of Harpoot. Mesopotamia.

56769 Unloading hospital supplies. Mardin, Mesopotamia.

Cattle near Nisibin. Mesopotamia.

Boy's co,pound. Mardin, Mesopotamia.


56774 Camels on the plains of Mesopotamia.



Little Moslem child with the American Commission Relief of the Near East.

Member of the American Commission Relief of the Near East and natives.
Mardin, Mesopotamia.


Refugee children of Mardin, Mesopotamia.

Refugee children of Mardin. Mesopotamia.

Members of the American Commission Relief of the Near East. Mardin,
Mesopotamia.

Members of the American Commission Relief of the Near East. Mardin,
Mesopotamia.


In the gardens of Mardin. Mesopotamia.

Little Bessie. Mardin, Mesopotamia.

Mardin Hospital. Mesopotamia.

Sawing stone slabs for operating room. Mardin Hospital. Mesopotamia.


Wheat market of Nisibin. Mesopotamia.

Natives learning to weave. Diarbekr, Mesopotamia.

Industrial-department under the American Commission Relief of the Near
East at Diarbekr. Mesopotamia.

Industrial department under the American Commission Relief of the Near
East at Diarbekr. Mesopotamia.


Balcony of Mardin Hospital. Mardin, Mesopotamia.

Sunday exercises, boys orphanage. Mardin, Mesopotamia.

Turkish family. Mesopotamia.

Rear entrance to Mardin Hospital. Mesopotamia.


56794 Type of old Mardin woman. Mesopotamia.

Interior of Mardin home. Mesopotamia.

American Commission Relief of the Near East Clinic. Mardin, Mesopotamia.


American Commission Relief of the Near East Clinic, Mardin, Mesopotamia.

Mohadjars at clinic camp. Mardin, Mesopotamia.

56786 Mohadjars camp. Mardin, Mesopotamia.

Turkish scenery.


A narrow pass.

A view from Diarbekr.

Arghana, Turkey. Oldest and one of richest copper mines in the world is
located here.


56756 Rug makers. Mardin, Mesopotamia.

56757 American compound. Harkoot, W. Asia.


Easter procession at the entrance of the church of the Holy Sephulchre,
Jerusalem.


Group of school boys and girls. Jerusalem.


Mohammedans leaving Jerusalem during Holy Week for the pilgrimage to the
"Neby Musa" their tomb of Moses which is located about 20 miles east of
Jerusalem.


56885 Winnowing. Nisibin.

56807 Mardin.

56888 German "Left Overs," Diarbekr.

56887 Garden dinner party.


56901 Diarbekr Walls.

56943 Beside Tigris River. N. Diarbekr.

56900 Up the Tigris from Summer yards.

56949 Road at Taurus.


56823 "Relief" smear.

56879 Manual training shop. Mardin.

56899 Summer Aes. Vale. Diarbekr.

56882 On the Mesopotamia Plain - American Commission Relief of the Near
East was waiting 9 and 1/2 hours for "Bengins." Nisibin to Mardin.

26877 American Commission Relief of the Near East makes its own tools -
Iron Rolls. Mardin Hospital.


56892 Diarbekr.

56893 Diarbekr.

56894 Armenian orphanage, Diarbekr.

56898 Vale. Diarbekr.


Pillars of Ancient, Nisibin.

56874 Harpoot and Mardin meet on bank of Tigris.

56884 Threshing machines Ala Turk. Nisibin.

56909 Jacobile - Chapel in Rock - cave.


56875 Diarbekr - crane nest.

56889 American Commission Relief of the Near East truck at N. Gate.
Diarbekr.

56915 Mardin.


56795 Mardin.

Euphrates Valley.

56902 Halett Beg, Military Commander. Diarbekr.

Diarbekr, Mesopotamia.


56886 Summer camp, Mardin.

Caravan at rest - toward Mardin.

56986 American Commission Relief of the Near East Clinic at camp, Mardin.

56930 "Getting up in the morning," Mardin.


14

56946 Roman bridge across Tigris.

131 Sunday exercises boys orphanage, Mardin.

24 Camels.


86 Across Tigris at Diarbekr.

31 Near Bozanti.

12 Syria.

39 Citadel - Aleppo.


56960 Boys compound, Mardin.

201 Unloading hospital bed, Mardin (American Commission Relief of the Near
East).

56942 "Good-bye," American Commission Relief of the Near East.

26 Sunset near Konia.


22 Pass over plain, 6 hours from Konia.

204 Camels resting.

34 West from Bozanti.

37 Orphanage.


146 The church whose spire reached too high in Diarbekr.

56784 Constantinople.

48

56962 People worth saving, Mardin.




9 People sitting in front of the wall.

86

91


56956

56953 A narrow pass.

Band concert. Canaan. Beg and Soy Basra.

56843 American Commission Relief of the Near East train-climbing Mardin
Hill.


56845 Bearing a Chist, Mardin.

56869 Threshing, upper Khanike. Mesopotamia.

56925 Osman Pasha and body guard.


56890 Interior Armenian church, Diarbekr.

56802 Mesopotamia.

56756

56754


56755

56753

56751 Salunika.

56948 Turkey special.


56765 Plain station. Wheat "warehouse."

56766 Asia Minor.

56767 German plan of development. Asia Minor.

56770 Station, Asia Minor.


56764

56926 Osman Pasha, A friendly Chist.

56762 Derinis.

120


76

56965 American Commission Relief of the Near East "mums squad." Mardin
Hospital.

23

46

88




40 Irrigation pump, Aleppo.

44 American Commission Relief of the Near East workmen - Mardin Hospital.

96 Mardin, May - A fine "rescue." American Commission relief of the Near
East.


32 Armistice frontier near Tchifte Khan.

110 Mardin. July 3-19.

222 Mardin lady, one of the old-fashioned.


In the compound. July 3-19.

Armenian Orphanage - Diarbekr.

American Commission Relief of the Near East pack train at stream towards
Diarbekr.

Taurus Mountain.


Aleppo - Mar. 29-19.

Refugee workers hospital - Mardin.

American Commission Relief of the Near East Ind. Dept. - Diarbekr. Miss
Wade.


Sunday walk children under 10 - A. C. R. N. E. Mardin.

A. C. R. N. E. Day with the camels of Basra.

Exercises for A. C. R. N. E. July 3-19 - Mardin.

Mardin as you look down. Massacred tower built by Christians.


A. C. R. N. E. cutting out the "past" - Tigris in foreground.

Kurdish Chists daughter. Mardin.

Roads - Armenia.

Our Turkish Commander Izzet Pasha. 6-13-19.


5-26-19. A. C. R. N. E. picnic garden near Mardin.

Mardin. A. C. R. N. E. picnic in garden. 5-26.



The "Prot" and her rescued Moslems.




Diarbekr from Mosque.

Near R. Euphrates.

Diarbekr.


An Arab family - Mardin. 6-1-19.

Turkish Commander Izzet Pasha. 5-1-19.

Mardin house and citadel from a Mardin upper courtyard.

Lower Khanike - making bergle.

Off for garden. July 6-19.


A Mardin St. "going down."

Mardin. Carl Harward's group. 9-15-19.

July 3-19 - Acrmemshi, Mardin.

Canaan Beg, Sheikh Basra - A. C. R. N. E.


Breakfast. About to start for Adana. 3-22-19.

Mardin hosp. Repair - May-19.

Our Arab friends. Mardin Hospital. 5-12-19.

Natives Mardin. 5-10-19.


The only survivors.

Under the walnut garden. Mardin. 5-26-19.

May 26-19.


Armenian graveyard. Bozanti. 3-21-19.

The market. Mardin.

Izzet Pasha "divide" narrow gauge "switchback." Miss McMichael. A. C. R.
N. E.

Sarg. Major. and Sarg. Pollard. Mardin. 5-1-19.


Our runner. Apr. 2-19.

An A. C. R. N. E. doctor. "The smear."

The only live enterprise in Mardin.

Oulan Kichla. March 20.


Near the city gates. 4-2-19.

Mardin.

German villa in Mardin.

Station at Mardin. April 1-19.


Near Serublisse. Mesopotamia. 3-31-19.

R. Euphrates toward Carchemish. March 31-19.

R. Euphrates.

Ruin Carchemish - R. Euphrates. 3-31-19.


British guard casting net - Tchifte Khan.

Wheat storage near Tchifte Khan.

R. Euphrates. 3-31-19.

R. Euphrates. Mar. 31-19.


War station. Mesopotamia. 3-21-19.

Am. Lieut. U. S. M. S. who found his sister in Aleppo.

Pump. Aleppo. 3-29-19.




Sunday exercises boys orphanage. Mardin. A. C. R. N. E.

My first host and children. Huther Chelaby.

Rear view Mardin Hospital.

A Mardin home.


Near Derinje. Mar. 14.

Prinkipe. March 14-19. Off for Syria.

Gorge mouth below Cilician Gates. 3-22-19.

Tchifte Khan bath. 3-21-19.






Sawing stone slabs of room. Mardin Hospital. A. C. R. N. E.

Ready for operation. Mardin.


For Diarbekr.

A garden on the way to Quarry.

Castle top. 8-26-19.

Castle top. 8-16-19.


Hospital sink.

Mardin Industrial Dept. A. C. R. N. E. Miss Truax.

Spinning. A. C. R. N. E.






Hospital kitchen. Native stove. Mardin. 9-4-19.

Picnic. Mesopotamia. Aug. 29-19.

Mesopotamia. "Swimming hole." 8-19.


After lunch music.

Garden picnic. Aug. 29-19. Guests of honor. Mil. Com. Canaan Beg and party.

A Mardin market scene. 8-25.

A. C. R. N. E. and group just from Diarbekr.


Taurus Ranos Hill.

Tigris Valley. 9-18-19.

Aghana - Ancient T. Feudal castle.

Village reclamation work. A. C. R. N. E. Near Diarbekr.


Muteseriff and son-in-law.

A. C. R. N. E. clinic. Gollis, Mesopotamia.

Opening the spring at Ibrahamish. A. C. R. N. E.

Being reoccupied. Ruined village.


"Mumps squad." Mardin - Mesopotamia. A. C. R. N. E. 9-25-19.



Near Aghana - Mardin. 9-16-19.

Getting up in the morning. Boys orphanage.


Camp. Mardin. 10-4-19.



A delightful host. Mardin. 9-2.

Our little Moslem.


Kalat Mara, a ruined Christian village.

Near Diarbekr. Going back. Mohadjars.

Toward Konia. March 18.

A view. Mardin Hospital.


Dessia as "Prot."

About the garden - Mardin. 9-22-19.

Garden party for A. C. R. N. E. Mardin, Mesopotamia.

Garden party for A. C. R. N. E. Mardin, Mesopotamia. 9-22-19.


56945 C. Genl. Harward's party. Tigris R.

56950 Taurus Ranos.

56944 Old German copper mines. Aghana.

56985 Mardin city clinic. A. C. R. N. E.


56782 Tchifte Khan. 3-22-19. War salvage.

Cleaning up. Boys orphanage - Mardin.

56984 A. C. R. N. E. clinic. Mardin.

"Ferris Wheel" a al Turk. Mardin.

English sisters - Gloucester Castle. 3-2-19.


Taurus Mt. Gorge. 3-22-19.

Garden. July 6-19.

Kurd village. Diarbekr road.


O. P. The ancient walls and towers besides the automobiles and buses, and
the modern highway leading to Bethlehem.


O. P. The approach to Nazareth from Damascus highway.


O. P. The Jewish quarters near the wailing wall and the tower of a
Mohamedan Mosque in the background. The scene of the bloody massacre in
1929 Jerusalem.