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English: Bain News Service,, publisher.

Tripoli - Captured Arabs at Fountain of Bu Meliana
[1911 or 1912]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
 Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Photograph shows Arab prisoners of war in Tripoli, Libya, being guarded by Italian soldiers during the Turco-Italian War (Italo-Turkish War) which took place between September 1911 and October 1912. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
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 Tripoli
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.09920

Call Number: LC-B2- 2327-3a
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