"Feeding the fatted sheep and baking bread on the soj". Women and children are shown baking bread over an iron plate outside a building of roughly-dressed stones. From the collection of Henry Harris Jessup (1832-1910) who was a missionary in Syria from 1856 to 1910, serving under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and Presbyterian Mission Board.
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