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  • The Tigris Front, Amara, Iraq: Indian soldiers suffering from scurvy. Photograph, 1916.
  • Iraq (formerly Mesopotamia) (?): shelf incinerator on an army camp. Photograph, ca. 1916.
  • The Indian General Hospital, Amara, Iraq: Indian scurvy patients eating limes. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Mosul, Iraq: a cholera camp: view of a few tents and horses. Photograph, 1890/1910.
  • Kurna, Iraq (formerly Mesopotamia): a market with vendors behind their stalls. Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • The Euphrates Front, Nasiriyeh, Iraq (formerly Mesopotamia): a first world war army fort. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Basra, Iraq (formerly Mesopotamia): the British army camp Sanitary Demonstration Centre: an earthen oven. Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • The Karun Front, Nasiriyeh, Iraq (formerly Mesopotamia): a minaret next to a large building. Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • Lime juice for the treatment of scurvy, issued to soldiers on the British Front in Iraq. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Amara, Iraq (formerly Mesopotamia): Arab children and adults running alongside straw huts in the Tigris river area. Photograph, ca. 1916.
  • The junction of the Euphrates river and the Shatt al Arab river, Iraq: (British ?) soldiers on the river bank. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Ali Gharbi, Iraq (formerly Mesopotamia): an earthen field oven with metal cooking equipment on a British military camp. Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • Tigris (?), Iraq (?): the 2nd Black Watch regiment's aid-post; tent surrounded by soldiers. Photograph by P. F. Gow, ca. 1916.
  • Tigris (?), Iraq (?): the 2nd Black Watch regiment's aid-post; tent surrounded by soldiers. Photograph by P. F. Gow, ca. 1916.
  • The British front (?), Tigris, Iraq, (formerly Mesopotamia): soldiers in the Indian cooking area of the trenches. Photograph by P.F. Gow, 1916 (?).
  • The Tigris river, Iraq: cattle being transported on a barge up river from Amara; boats and houses along the bank in the background. Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • Bakery at the Indian army base in Makina, Basra, Iraq (formerly Mesopotamia): British soldiers watch the preparation of the dough by Sikh (?) bakers. Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • Basra, Iraq: the Indian General Hospital: milk is served from large metal bowls to waiting men outside the Indian cook house (a straw hut). Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • Nasiriyeh, Iraq (formerly Mesopotamia): an incinerator in the First World War army camp at the Euphrates Front; an Indian soldier poses in front of the structure. Photograph, ca. 1915.
  • Iraq (?): British and Indian (?) soldiers with a group of Iraqi (?) men, seated, bare-footed and wearing turbans and two Iraqi (?) girls; group portrait. Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • The Tigris Front, Iraq (formerly Mesopotamia): First Corps British Army camp sanitary area at Sandy Ridge: view of closed incinerator, sweeper's tent, drying shed for litter and latrine huts. Photograph by P.F. Gow, ca. 1916.
  • Acanthus dioscoridis L. Acanthaceae. Distribution: Iran, Iraq, southern Turkey. Herbaceous perennial flowering plant. Named for Pedanius Dioscorides of Anazarbus, 1st century Greek physician and herbalist whose book, De Materia Medica, was the main source of herbal medicinal information for the next 1,600 years. He describes some 500 plants and their medicinal properties. His manuscript was copied and annotated over the centuries, and the earliest Greek text in existence is the illustrated Juliana Anicia Codex dated 512CE (Beck, 2005). The first English translation was made around 1650 by John Goodyear and published by Robert T. Gunther in 1934
  • A woman's bare foot treading on the shoe of a man with two skulls touching above with the word 'AIDS'; a warning about the importance of safe sex and the dangers of AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1995.
  • Two men and a woman crossing the river Tigris on inflated skins. Wood engraving.
  • A man using a raft of inflated skins to navigate the River Tigris. Wood engraving.
  • World War I: Private Fynn V.C., S.W. Borderers. Oil painting by Ugo Matania, 1916.
  • World War I: Private Fynn V.C., S.W. Borderers. Oil painting by Ugo Matania, 1916.
  • World War I: Private Fynn V.C., S.W. Borderers. Oil painting by Ugo Matania, 1916.
  • World War I: Private Fynn V.C., S.W. Borderers. Oil painting by Ugo Matania, 1916.
  • World War I: Private Fynn V.C., S.W. Borderers. Oil painting by Ugo Matania, 1916.