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IJA 3779

Receipts, Invoices, and Promissory Notes, Frank Iny School

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These are documents from the Frank Iny School in Baghdad including receipts, invoices, and promissory notes for local vendors including booksellers, office and building suppliers, hardware, painters, maintenance, newspapers and magazines, utilities and phone bills, and the Iraq Insurance Office and Guardian Assurance Company for fire insurance.

Metadata

Archive Reference
IJA 3779
Item Number
7006
Date
Approx. January 1, 1951 to December 31, 1960
Languages
Arabic, English
Keywords
Annotation, Baghdadi Jewish Community, Baghdad Light and Power, Bills, Electricity Bill, Financial, Form, Fragment, Frank Iny School, Handwritten, Illustration, Ink Stamp, Insurance, Invoice, Iraqi Government, Letterhead, Ministry of Education, Office of Telephone Administration, Pharmacy, Printed Text, Promissory Bills, Receipt, Revenue Stamp, Schools, Shamash Secondary School, Thumbprint, Typed

AI English Translation, Pages 1-25

Archival unit 3

Iraq
The Government
Central Telephone Directorate
Baghdad
Area / 6
Please present this bill when paying the amount at this center
Telephone Bill
Subscriber Name: ⟦illegible⟧
Amount | Dinar | Fils
Telephone rent for the installment ⟦illegible⟧ | Price | Dinar per installment |  |
⟦illegible⟧ for the details recorded on the back of the bill ..
⟦illegible⟧ internal according to the attached table (Area 5) ..
⟦illegible⟧ external calls according to the attached table (Area 6) ..
⟦illegible⟧ additional ones to be totaled with the refundable deposits ⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧ of calls and fees according to paragraph ( ) of the telephone rental conditions

Archival unit 4

255
Dunya
Received ⟦illegible⟧ from our hand ⟦illegible⟧
One Dinar ⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧ in ⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
Basim
22 / 2 / 2007
Approval for payment
⟦fingerprint⟧

Archival unit 5

255
⟦illegible⟧
Received ⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
The Republic
of Iraq
10 Fils

Archival unit 6

254
SHAMASH SECONDARY SCHOOL
Alwiyah - Baghdad
Tel. No. 91532
⟦illegible⟧
Baghdad - Iraq
Telephone 93318
Number:
On Date:
Raghib Obeid
⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧ yards of cotton
White yards of wood
Checkered 10
⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
Car for transporting wood
Amir Khalqa
Yahya Karawij
Agency for transporting materials with Mr. Khazal
Carpenter's fee with Mr. Khazal
Farah Kield
⟦illegible oval stamp⟧

Archival unit 7

SHAMASH SECONDARY SCHOOL
New Alwiyah - Baghdad
Tel. No. 91693
⟦line⟧
Shamash Secondary School
Baghdad
New Alwiyah
Telephone 91693
⟦line⟧
Number: ⟦line⟧
Date: ⟦line⟧
⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧

Archival unit 8

Saleh Darwish
Stationery Seller - Shorja - Baghdad
Date: / / 195
To Mr.: ⟦illegible⟧
Respected:
Fils | Dinar | Details
140 |  | Exchange of ⟦illegible⟧ papers
80 |  | ⟦illegible⟧
540 |  | ⟦illegible⟧
⟦signature⟧
Errors and omissions are subject to correction by both parties

Archival unit 9

Haj Ahmed Al-Haj Dawood
Various Dyes. Wholesale and Retail
Baghdad - Shorja
Baghdad on: / / 19
To: Kadhim Ali
Respected:
Fils | Dinar | Price | Details
500 | — | — | Colored dyes ten colors each color plates fils
500 |  |  |
⟦illegible⟧
Haj Ahmed
⟦signature⟧

Archival unit 10

Burhan Al-Haj Ali Baldawi
Al-Bazzazin Market, Al-Arid Market
Baghdad on: 16 - 2 - 1959
To the presence of:
Respected:
Fils | Dinar | Type | Length | Yard | Cubit | Price
⟦line⟧ | 1 | White cloth |  | 10 |  | 100
 |  | Six Dinars received from him ⟦...⟧ |  |  |  | 
⟦illegible stamp⟧
⟦signature⟧
Errors and omissions are subject to correction by both parties

Archival unit 11

Jabbouri Al-Haj Hassan Qantar
Seller of various types of wire
Al-Rashid Street, Bab Al-Agha No. 224 - 1 H - Telephone No. 86732
Baghdad on: ⟦line⟧ / ⟦line⟧ / 195
To the respected: Mr. Kadhim
Fils | Dinar | Type of Items | Price | Quantity
600 | 2 | Bundle of half-inch wire |  | 4
600 | 2 | Only two dinars and six hundred fils |  | 
⟦illegible stamp⟧
⟦signature⟧
Errors and omissions are subject to correction by both parties

Archival unit 12

Al-Tai Store
Owner: Saleh Mohammed Saeed Al-Tai
SALEH MOHD SAID AL-TAI
For the sale of all types of carpentry tools and nails, wholesale and retail
Carpentary Tools Hard Importers
Ware, Screws
Baghdad Bab Al-Agha - Rashid Street No. 263-1M
Bab Al-agha 263 / 1 M
Rashid Street Baghdad
Baghdad on: 12 - 2 - 1959
Baghdad: ⟦line⟧
To: Kadhim Makki
Respected:
Fils | Dinar | Details | Size | Inch | Quantity | Price
280 | - | White spoon set |  |  | 1 | 280
Received in full
⟦illegible⟧
⟦signature⟧
Errors and omissions excepted for both parties
Signature

Archival unit 13

Fils Dinar
⟦line⟧
200 2
Only two dinars and two hundred fils
Received from Kadhim Ali two dinars
and two hundred fils for the price of
digging such-and-such <del>⟦illegible⟧</del>
Recipient
Hussein Ali
16 / 7 / 95
⟦illegible stamp⟧

Archival unit 14

⟦illegible⟧
SABEH MOHD SAID AL-TAI
Carpentry Tools Hand Importers
Ware, Screws
Bab Al-agha 203/1
Rashid Street Baghdad
Baghdad
Number ⟦illegible⟧ Date ⟦illegible⟧
Abd al-Salih ⟦illegible⟧ in the shop ⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧ - until ⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
Number | Description | Remarks | Weight | Price | Amount
80 | 1 |  |  | ⟦illegible⟧ | 85
⟦signature⟧
Remaining amount ⟦illegible⟧

Archival unit 15

Electric Carpentry Factory
Electric Carpentry Factory
ABDUL HADI MAHDI
Owned by Abdul Hadi Mahdi
Al Shaikh Umar St. Abu Saifain 74-7-149
Al Sheikh Omar Street Abu Saifain 74 A 7 / 149
Telephone No. 85845
Telephone 85845
Number 2629
Baghdad:
TIMBER SECTION:
Timber Branch:
Respected: ⟦illegible⟧
Type of Goods | Quantity | Measurement | Total Length | Inch | Cubic Foot | Square Foot | Price
⟦illegible⟧ | 8 | 2 x 2 | 112 | 1008 | 7 / - |  | 750
⟦illegible⟧
Five dinars and seven hundred and fifty fils only
Republic of Iraq
10 Fils
Only and ⟦illegible⟧

Archival unit 16

Haj Ali Al-Haj Husain
Strings Sellers & Samaky (Various yarns and Samaky types shop)
NO. 158 - 98 SHORJAH Baghdad - Shorjah - No. 158 / 98
BAGHDAD Telephone ( 88223 )
Tel. ( 88223 )
Sale: 00936
Date: 16 / 2 / 9 / 195
Respectable / Mr.: Al-Farjani House
Fils | Dinar | Details | Quarter | Oqqa | Haqqa | Mann | Kilo | Number | Price | Notes
200 |  | Syrian Hemp |  | 2 |  |  |  | 2 | 10 | 
500 |  | White Cotton Thread |  |  |  |  |  | 1 | 50 | 
150 |  | Bag of Shell Thread |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 
850 |  | Received in cash only eight hundred and fifty fils |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Dirhams
⟦illegible stamp⟧
⟦signature⟧
Errors and omissions excepted for both parties

Archival unit 17

Received from Afrah School
An amount of 1 / 250 Fils
Sadiq Mustafa
⟦line⟧
Fils | Dinar
250 | 1
2 / 1959
⟦illegible⟧ 195
⟦illegible⟧

Archival unit 18

500 beer } in the hand of Mr. Khaz'al
400 said }
⟦line⟧
900
⟦illegible⟧

Archival unit 19

Victory Co. For Building Articles
Props:
S. Nakash & H. Alwan
Contractors of Painting Houses, contractors for painting houses and buildings and selling all
Building & Selling all Kinds of paints
of Colours Rashid Street - Bab al-Agha * Telephone 6068
Rashid Street Bab-ulagha Baghdad on - - 195
Tel. 6068 Mr.
Mr.:
Fils | Dinar | Details | Quantity | Price | Notes
⟦illegible⟧

Archival unit 20

Shop for selling paints and coatings
Edward Touma
Karrada - Rakhita - Sabri Tuaima Market
Baghdad on: 2 / 12 / ⟦19⟧5
To: The respected ⟦Shamash⟧ Issa School
Fils | Dinar | Details
100 |  | Ounce of tea
 |  | Kerosene stove
⟦signature⟧

Archival unit 21

252
Only ⟦illegible⟧ | 1 | 680
Karala Abd ⟦illegible⟧ palm knife with sickles | 2 | 400
Sign of Kwani Abd | 1 | 800
Trees to the students of the Afforestation Committee, number of trees | 4 | 100
Repairing the router | 2 | 250
Kwani ⟦illegible⟧ | 0 | 18
Fare ⟦illegible⟧ for transporting the Karala |  | 20
Car fees |  | 100
To Wadi Abu Al-⟦illegible⟧ the tailor |  | 150
Gratuity to a poor man by order of the Director |  | 50
Fiscal stamps Abd |  | 50
Letter stamp to Lebanon |  | 20
List from Mackenzie Library | 1 | 100
Glass for photographing the Leader for the newspaper |  | 250
⟦line⟧
<del>⟦illegible⟧</del>
<del>⟦illegible⟧</del>
460

Archival unit 22

Shop of
Hazim Bashir
For selling and installing glass and making picture frames
Baghdad - Ghazi Street, next to Jamil Al-Shammaa Pharmacy
Date: 18 / 3 / 1959
Mr.:
Respectfully:
Fils | Dinar | Details
250 |  | 3 mm glass
 |  | Quantity 1, 18 x 24
⟦illegible⟧
Hazim
Errors and omissions are subject to correction by both parties

Archival unit 23

MACKENZIE BOOKSHOP.
⟦illegible⟧
I.D. 1.050
Advance for books for sale
No.: 1898
Baghdad: 16th. March 1959
Received from: Frank Iny School,
⟦line⟧: Baghdad.
the sum of I.D.: one & fils fifty only ⟦line⟧
For MACKENZIES BOOKSHOP
I.D.: 1/050
⟦signature⟧
⟦illegible circular stamp⟧

Archival unit 24

No. 09807.
African & Eastern (Near East) Limited - Baghdad
African & Eastern (Near East) Ltd. Baghdad.
Baghdad: 7/3/ 1959
RECEIVED From: Frank Iny School
Iraq Dinars: Two fils 350 only.
in payment of: Tech. ⟦illegible⟧ No. 2090
I. D.: 2/350
FOR AFRICAN & EASTERN (NEAR EAST) LIMITED
⟦signature⟧
CASHIER

Archival unit 25

Air Conditioning Department
African & Eastern (Near East) Limited
(Incorporated in England)
AIR CONDITIONING DEPT.
AFRICAN & EASTERN (N. E.) LTD.
(INCORPORATED IN ENGLAND)
Tel. No. 97929 Telephone No. 97929
No: 002090
Name/Address: FRANK INY SCHOOL ALWIYAH, Baghdad
INVOICE:
Baghdad: 15/3/59
Terms: Cash Re No 9807 15/3/59.
Job No: 1554/5
DESCRIPTION | I.D. Dinar | Fils | I.D. Dinar | Fils
To cost of Cleaning, Oiling & testing & fitting spare parts for Gestetner Machine Model 130 |  |  |  |
1 feed finger complete FC 41 |  | 550 |  |
Mechanics time & Expenses | 1 | 800 |  |
ID Two & fils 350 only. |  |  | 2 | 350
Errors and omissions excepted. No claims entertained after the goods leave the company's warehouse.
E. & O. E. No claims entertained after the goods leave the Company's ⟦illegible⟧