Photographs of the visit of King Faisal II to a textile mill in Mosul in 1958

Item

Description
A set of photographs recording a visit of King Faisal II of Iraq to a textile mill in Mosul in 1957 or early 1958. The king was killed during the Revolution of 14 July 1958, led by the Free Officers movement headed by Abdul Salam Arif and Abd al-Karim Qasim. This ended the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq (1932-58) and established the Iraqi Republic.
Date
1958
Subject
Iraq
Spatial Coverage
Iraq
Mosul
Identifier
AWDU
Format
Print
Resource class
Text
Item sets
Iraq