Arab women in shed grade and pack the dates. Roller slides used for moving date boxes. Testing machine for packing seeded dates. Dates are pressed into a solid pack with the help of another date press. Nailing tops on boxes. Workers give expression to their gaiety in an Arab war dance.
View near entrance to the Mandali village, Baghdad. Workers transport dates from garden to the village. Locals make bags from date leaf pinnae. Blind worker sews the plaited stripes together to form bags.
Loading packed date boxes on native boat for transportation to steamer and further to New York. One progressive exporting company experiments in adaptation of Arab labor to modern machinery and factory procedures in Basrah, Iraq. View of the Tigris River near Baghdad.
A military tracked vehicle pulls heavy guns in the desert. Indian mounted machine gun troops walk alongside their horses. Goods loaded on horses. British General Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby and his officers are formally greeted as they return to Cairo, Egypt to prepare for a desert campaign. British troops interrogate Sultan's spy in Mesopotamia. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Troops of a British Colonial Indian mounted machine gun battery walk with their horses on a desert path,during the Mesopotamian Campaign of World War 1. Large hills and rocky outcroppings are seen in the region.
British troops relax at their trench line in the Mesopotanian desert, as others interrogate an Ottoman "spy" with help of a man and a woman interpreters. The captured Turk sits on the back of a British Lanchester armored car, as the woman speaks with him. He then speaks to another interpreter standing to his right.