Baghdad Collection

Desert Bus Service
The Nairn Transport Company operates this motor coach which carries passengers from Baghdad on the road to Damascus, and vice versa

British troops on the way to Baghdad, Mesopotamia, WW1
British troops by the Tigris, Mesopotamia (now Iraq), on the way to Baghdad during the First World War. Date: 1916

Gertrude Bell on Horseback - Baghdad, Iraq

Market Place - A Quarter of Baghdad, Iraq. Date: 1910s

Betaween Avenue, Baghdad, Iraq
Betaween (Battaween) Avenue, Baghdad, Iraq. circa 1950s

Baghdad, Iraq - Saadoun Avenue (now Saadoun Street). Date: circa 1960s

The Taq Kisra) at Ctesiphon, Iraq
Interesting view (from the rear) of the gigantic vaulted hall (the Taq Kisra) at Ctesiphon, an ancient Parthian city located southeast of modern Baghdad, Iraq

Baghdad, Iraq - Firdos Square
Baghdad, Iraq - The Firdos ( The Firdaws ) Square - a rather stark illustration of British Colonial City planning/development

Sabians or Star Worshippers - Iraq
Sabians or Star Worshippers - at the Baghdad Medical Mission, Iraq. A name given by the Shemitic peoples to those who worship the spiritual beings in the universe;

Al-Kadhimiya Mosque, Baghdad, Iraq
Al-Kadhimiya Mosque (Masjid Al-Kazimiyyah) or Al-Kadhimayn Shrine (Ḥaram Al-Kazimayn) - a Shi'ite Islamic mosque and shrine located in the Kadhimayn suburb of Baghdad, Iraq

Iraqi Minister of Development Mohammad Ghussein & colleagues
The Iraqi Minister of Development Mohammad Ghussein, colleagues and their spouses at the Department of Development - Baghdad, Iraq. Date: circa 1950s

An Arab Cafe in Baghdad, Iraq. Date: circa 1910s

Actor Conrad Veidt
German actor Conrad Veidt, shortly to appear as Diasar the Magician in the film The Thief of Baghdad'. Date: circa 1939

Sheikh Abdul Qadir Gilani's tomb, Baghdad, Iraq. Date: circa 1918

Sheikh Omar's tomb and mosque, Baghdad, Iraq
Sheikh Omar Al-Sahrawardi tomb and mosque, Baghdad, Iraq. Date: 1910s

Tomb of Sheikh Maruf Karkhi, Baghdad, Iraq
Tomb of Sheikh Maruf Karkhi (Abu Mahfuz Maruf Ibn Firuz al-Karkhi, c.750/760-c.815-820), in the Moslem Cemetery, Baghdad, Iraq. Date: circa 1920

General Maude's grave, Baghdad, Iraq
Grave of Lieutenant General Sir Stanley Maude, North Gate War Cemetery, Baghdad, Iraq. He was Commander-in-Chief of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, and died at Baghdad in November 1917

No. 55 Bomber Squardron RAF, 1934
No.55 Bomber Squardron RAF, flying from Jerusalem to Baghdad, 1934

Sitt Zumurrud Khatuns Tomb. This is the most famous mausoleum in Baghdad. It is situated in the western sector of Baghdad not faraway from the main railway station.Erroneously ascribed to Sitt

Woman of Baghdad in everyday dress of botanical-print robes, harem pants and sandals. Illustration by Mounier from Guillaume-Antoine Oliviers Travels in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and Persia, 1801

Woman of Baghdad in formal dress. Illustration by Mounier from Guillaume-Antoine Oliviers Travels in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and Persia, 1801

Tenor singer Huet as the Caliph in The Caliph
Tenor singer Louis-Auguste Huet as Calife in the comic opera Le Calife de Bagdad by Francois Adrien Boieldieu, Theatre Royal de l Opera Comique, 1824. Handcoloured lithograph by F

Baghdad, Iraq - Entrance to the Al-Kadhimiya Mosque
Date: early 1950s

The Citadel, Baghdad, Iraq - WWI Xmas card
A rather unusual Christmas Greetings postcard, featuring a World War One era soldier (serving on the Mesopotamian front) in patriotic pose before an inset view of The Citadel, Baghdad, Iraq

Interior of Sheikh Abdul Qadir Gilanis tomb, Baghdad, Iraq
The interior (entrance) of Sheikh Abdul Qadir Gilanis tomb, in his madrasa in Babul-Sheikh, Rusafa on the east bank of the Tigris in Baghdad, Iraq Date: circa 1930s

Maude Bridge, Baghdad, Iraq. It was built in 1918 and named after Sir Frederick Stanley Maude. This photograph dates from circa 1930. Date: circa 1930

Old gun, Abu Khazama, in Baghdad, Iraq
Old gun, known as Abu Khazama, outside the citadel in Baghdad, Iraq. Date: circa 1917

Arab porters in Main Street, Baghdad, Iraq. circa 1917

Hardware Shop, Baghdad, Iraq. Date: circa 1920s

The Ziggurat Akar Kuf (Aqar Quf)
The Ziggurat Akar Kuf (Aqar Quf, formerly Dur-Kurigalzu), situated near Baghdad and originates from the Kassite Dynasty. The layers of masonry consist alternately of clay bricks and hemp or raffia

Helmet of King Meskalamdug. Sumerian art
Gold helmet of King Meskalamdug. ca. 2400 BC. Sumerian art. Jewelry. IRAQ. Bagdad. Baghdad Museum. Proc: IRAQ. Ur

A street in Baghdad, Iraq

The golden towers of Khadamain, Baghdad. An illustration to " A Dweller in Mesopotamia." by Donald Maxwell

Modern Buildings, Baghdad, Iraq Date: circa 1950

Baghdad, Iraq - Mausoleum of Hadrat Sheikh Marouf al Karkhi
Baghdad, Iraq - The Mausoleum of Abu Mahfuz Maruf Ibn Firuz al-Karkhi aka Maruf Kharki - Sufi Saint (born 750-760, died 815-820) Date: circa 1920s

Baghdad, Iraq - The Al-Kadhimiya Mosque
The Al-Kadhimiya Mosque is a shrine located in the Kadhimayn suburb of Baghdad, Iraq. It contains the tombs of the seventh Twelver Shi ah Imam Musa al-Kadhim

de Havilland DH66 Hercules G-EBMY City of Baghdad
de Havilland DH66 Hercules, G-EBMY, City of Baghdad, refuelling at Bushire. 4 January 1930. Date: 1930

Golden Domes of Al-Kadhimiya Mosque, Baghdad, Iraq
Golden Domes of Al-Kadhimiya (Khadimain) Mosque, Baghdad, Iraq. Date: circa 1920

Maidan Mosque, Baghdad, Iraq. Date: circa 1910s

Railway construction at Belemedik, Turkey -- part of the Berlin-Baghdad railway. Date: circa 1915

Kadhimain horse tramway, Baghdad, Iraq
Kadhimain horse-drawn double-decker tramway, Baghdad, Iraq, on the Kamazene Mosque route. Date: circa 1920s

General view of Baghdad, Iraq, with domes and minarets. Date: circa 1918

View down Maude Avenue, Baghdad, Iraq
View down the tree-lined Maude Avenue, Baghdad, Iraq. Date: circa 1917

WWI - Map of the Mesopotamian Campaign of the MEF (Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force) featured on the reverse of a Forces Greetings card - Christmas 1917. Date: 1917

Title page design, Hassan by James Elroy Flecker
Title page design, Hassan (The Story of Hassan of Baghdad and How he Came to Make the Golden Journey to Samarkand), a verse drama by James Elroy Flecker, with illustrations by Thomas Mackenzie

Baghdad in World War One
Government buildings in Baghdad during the First World War in 1917. The Illustrated London News describes it as a city of Arabs

Codex granatensis, c. 1400. Tacuinum sanitatis. Persimmon
IBN BUTLAN, Abu-l Hasan al-Mujtar (c. 1001 - 1066). Nestorian Christian physician and philosopher of Baghdad. Folio 84v. Illustration about persimmons, which preserve of drunkenness

A view of Baghdad, Iraq

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