PhotographArchive photograph
Students at Shamash School, Baghdad, 1950
This classroom photograph gives a human scale to the modern school network represented in the atlas.
Rights / sourcePublic domain — PD-Iraq
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Jewish schoolchildren in Baghdad, 1959
A late photograph of Jewish education in Baghdad, useful for understanding the community after the mass migration of 1950–1951.
Rights / sourcePublic domain — PD-Iraq
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Jewish homes along the Tigris, Baghdad, c. 1890s–1900s
Tigris-side residences provide urban context for the prosperous Jewish families who participated in Baghdad’s commercial and civic life.
Rights / sourceNo known copyright restrictions
MapArchive map
Baghdad city map, 1958
A detailed U.S. Army city sheet that can be overlaid on the modern atlas to compare central Baghdad’s street geography.
Rights / sourcePublic domain — U.S. Army map
MapArchive map
Baghdad region map, 1942 edition
A regional military map that situates Baghdad within the wider river, road and settlement landscape of the early 1940s.
Rights / sourcePublic domain — U.S. Army map
PhotographArchive photograph
Baghdad street and overhanging balconies, 1932
Visual context: a Baghdad street with traditional overhanging balconies, photographed in 1932. This is not a photograph of the exact heritage site.
Rights / sourcePublic domain / no known restrictions
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Market life in Iraq, 1932
Visual context: an Iraqi market photographed by the Matson collection in 1932, evoking the commercial world of interwar Baghdad. It is not the exact heritage site.
Rights / sourcePublic domain / no known restrictions
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The Tigris at Baghdad, 1932
Visual context: the Tigris at Baghdad in 1932, showing the river landscape that shaped the city’s neighborhoods and communal life. It is not the exact heritage site.
Rights / sourcePublic domain / no known restrictions
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Baghdad at sunrise, 1932
Visual context: palms and urban landscape in Baghdad at sunrise, photographed in 1932. It provides period atmosphere rather than a view of the exact institution.
Rights / sourcePublic domain / no known restrictions
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Shatt al-Arab near Basra
City context: the Shatt al-Arab near Basra. The photograph situates the heritage record in Basra’s river landscape; it is not the exact site.
Rights / sourcePublic domain
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Mosul city context
City context: a view across the older urban fabric of Mosul. It helps locate the Jewish heritage record within the city, but is not the exact site.
Rights / sourceCC BY-SA 3.0
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Duhok and the mountain landscape
Regional context: Duhok and its mountain setting. This image illustrates the wider landscape of northern Iraqi Jewish communities, not the exact heritage structure.
Rights / sourceCC BY-SA 4.0
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Amediye on the mountain plateau
City context: Amediye on its mountain plateau in 2009. It shows the town connected to this heritage record, not necessarily the exact memorial location.
Rights / sourcePublic domain
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Alqosh and its surrounding plain
City context: Alqosh and its surrounding plain. The view complements the documented Prophet Nahum complex by showing its wider town setting.
Rights / sourceCC0 1.0
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Zakho and Delal Bridge
City context: Zakho and the Delal Bridge landscape. It situates the former Jewish quarter within the city’s river geography, not the exact quarter boundary.
Rights / sourcePublic domain
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Erbil Citadel and historic core
City context: Erbil Citadel and the historic urban core. This photograph gives geographic context and does not depict the exact Jewish cemetery or village record.
Rights / sourceCC BY-SA 4.0
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Historic architecture in Akre
City context: historic architecture in Akre. It provides visual context for the town’s Jewish synagogue tradition rather than claiming to show the synagogue itself.
Rights / sourceCC BY-SA 4.0
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Koy Sanjaq / Koye and its hills
City context: Koy Sanjaq / Koye and its surrounding hills. The photograph situates the Jewish neighborhood and cemetery records within the wider town.
Rights / sourceCC BY-SA 3.0
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Panorama over Sulaymaniyah
City context: a panorama over Sulaymaniyah. It places the Jewish quarter and cemetery records within their mountain-city setting, not at an exact heritage point.
Rights / sourceCC BY-SA 3.0
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Exterior of the al-Uzair shrine complex
Site context: exterior view of the al-Uzair shrine/mosque complex associated with Ezra’s Tomb. The atlas keeps this exterior alongside the existing interior photograph.
Rights / sourceCC BY-SA 3.0
PhotographArchive photograph
Dina Synagogue interior, Baghdad, 1942
Archival synagogue context: the bimah of Baghdad’s Dina Synagogue in 1942. It illustrates the city’s synagogue world and is not a photograph of this specific institution.
Rights / sourcePublic domain — PD-Iraq
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Entrance of Sassoon Synagogue, Mosul, 2018
A documented photograph of the Sassoon Synagogue entrance, giving the Mosul record a direct architectural image.
Rights / sourceCC BY-SA 4.0
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Navi Yehezqel Synagogue, Amediye, 1940s
A historic photograph of a Jewish synagogue in Amediye from Erich Brauer’s documentation, adding direct visual evidence of the town’s Jewish religious landscape.
Rights / sourcePublic domain — PD-Iraq
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School records, communal documents and digitized material from Jewish life in Iraq.
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Place-based heritage records for Jewish communities across Iraq and the wider region.
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