Mosul, [Iraq]; The fruit market - A pile of watermelons – Historic Print
![Mosul, [Iraq]; The fruit market - A pile of watermelons, 1932 — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/05/053b53f44c01-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Mosul, [Iraq]; The fruit market - A pile of watermelons, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Mosul, [Iraq]; The fruit market - A pile of watermelons
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A heap of watermelons fills the foreground of this 1932 view of a fruit market in Mosul, a city in northern Iraq on the Tigris River, across from the ruins of ancient Nineveh. The picture belongs to the G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection, a body of work by a couple who documented daily life across the Near East and whose negatives later went to the Library of Congress. Scenes like this one record the produce trade that supplied city households in the early 1930s, as Iraq moved from British mandate toward independence. The caption information is unverified, so the exact stall and date should be treated with some caution.
| Created / published | 1932 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | No. 4816. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Forms part of: the G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection. |
| Subjects | Markets--Iraq--Mosul--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,229 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-108789 |
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