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IJA 3753

Correspondence between Frank Iny and Shamash Secondary School and Iraqi Government

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These are documents from the Frank Iny School and the Shamash Secondary School. The item includes correspondence between school administrations and the Iraqi government concerning inspection results, library holdings, teacher employment, requests for school-related supplies, and reports about male/female integrated education.

Metadata

Archive Reference
IJA 3753
Item Number
12953
Date
Approx. January 1, 1951 to December 31, 1960
Languages
Arabic, English
Keywords
Annotation, Exam, Frank Iny School, Handwritten, Ink Stamp, Iraqi Government, Letterhead, Ministry of Education, Receipts, Shamash Secondary School, Students, Teachers, Typed

AI en Translation, Pages 626-650

Page 626

( ⟦Baghdad Knowledge⟧ Warehouse )
Ministry of Education
To Frank Aini School
Volume 10998
Release Document
Transaction on 7 / 256
Sequence 47
12 / 11 / 59
Sequence | Item | Quantity in Figures | Quantity in Writing | Unit Price Fils | Unit Price Dinar | Total Price Fils | Total Price Dinar | Remarks
✓ | First Grade |  |  |  |  |  |  |
✓ | Principles of Geometry Ed.1 | 4 | Four | 21 |  | 84 |  | Print
✓ | General Arithmetic Ed.1 | 10 | Ten | 150 | Trust | 1500 |  | 1502
| Second Grade |  |  |  |  |  |  |
✓ | Bicycles | 20 | Twenty | 100 | Trust | 2000 |  | 1106
✓ | Principles of Geometry Ed.2 | 2 | Two | 110 |  | 220 |  | 1205
✓ | General Arithmetic Ed.2 | 2 | Two | 140 | Trust | 280 |  | 1207
| Third Grade |  |  |  |  |  |  |
✓ | Practical Physics | 10 | Ten | 110 |  | 1100 |  | 1208
✓ | Arithmetic Ed.3 | 20 | Twenty | 200 | Trust | 4000 |  | 2005
✓ | Principles of Geometry Ed.3 | 4 | Four | 70 |  | 280 |  | 803
✓ | Bicycles | 3 | Three | 150 | Trust | 450 |  | 1500
| Fourth Grade |  |  |  |  |  |  |
✓ | Modern Nature Ed.1 | 5 | Five | 200 | Trust | 1000 |  | 2001
| Fifth Grade |  |  |  |  |  |  |
✓ | Solid Geometry | 5 | Five | 110 |  | 550 |  | 1207
✓ | Elementary Physics Ed.2 | 5 | Five | 250 |  | 1250 |  | 2505
✓ | Mathematical Tables | 20 | Twenty | 65 |  | 1300 |  | 700
|  |  |  |  |  | 27140 |  |
Total: 27140
Name of Deliverer and Position: ⟦Abdul Razzaq⟧ Al-Saadi
Name of Receiver and Position:
Signature: ⟦signature⟧
Signature:
Date: 18 / 11 / 1959
Date:
⟦illegible circular stamp⟧

Page 627

Ministry of Education
Issue Document
Warehouse: Baghdad Central Education
Volume: 1549
Sequence: 18
To: Administration of Rima Dankour School
Transaction: 58/25 on 56/12/25
Sequence | Item | Quantity in Figures | Quantity in Writing | Unit Price Fils | Unit Price Dinar | Total Price Fils | Total Price Dinar | Remarks
First | Principles of Khaldunian Reading | 20 | Twenty | 100 | - | - | 2 |
| Copy 11 |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Sent to Al-Shamasha Administration - for the year |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Mr. Ahmed
Please keep the list in the specialized file and give
the receipt to the accountant
⟦signature⟧
58/12/12
W. M. & C.
W. S.
Receipt 58/1/27
According to document
⟦illegible⟧
Trust
⟦illegible⟧
Total: 2 -
Name of the deliverer and his position: Warehouse Officer
His signature: ⟦signature⟧
Date: 56/12/24
Name of the recipient and his position: ⟦signature⟧
His signature: ⟦signature⟧
Date: 56/12/24

Page 628

Ministry of Education
Issue Document
Warehouse: Baghdad Education (Center)
Volume: 1551
Sequence: 307
To: Frank Iny School
Transaction: Supply
Sequence | Item | Quantity in Figures | Quantity in Words | Unit Price Fils | Unit Price Dinar | Total Price Fils | Total Price Dinar | Remarks
1 | First: Khaldunian Principles of Reading for Beginners | 100 | One hundred | 101 | | 100 | 10 | 57/58
2 | Second: The New in Spelling and Reading Part 1 | 70 | Seventy | 110 | | 700 | 7 |
| | | | | | 800 | 17 |
In your name
And you have borne
The costs of the material (17/800)
Dinars because they are
Sold
⟦illegible⟧
Name of the issuer and his position: Sayyid Nuri, Warehouse Officer
Signature: ⟦signature⟧
Date: 2/2/58
Name of the recipient and his position: Sayyid Taha
Signature: ⟦signature⟧
Date: 2/2/58

Page 629

(Textbook Warehouse / Al-Karkh)
1864
Ministry of Education
Release Document
Volume ⟦line⟧
Sequence 207
To: ⟦Shamash⟧ School
Transaction: ⟦...⟧
Sequence | Item | Quantity in Figures | Quantity in Writing | Unit Price Fils | Unit Price Dinar | Total Price Fils | Total Price Dinar | Remarks
First | Khaldunian Reading | 80 | Eighty | 120 |  | 600 | 9 | 5/8/59
| Arithmetic Workbook Part 2 | 40 | Forty | 30 |  | 200 | 1 | -
| ⟦...⟧ 12 ⟦...⟧ | 40 | ⟦...⟧ | 35 |  | 400 | 1 | -
Second | The New in Reading and Recitation Part 1 | 80 | Eighty | 110 |  | 800 | 8 | -
| Total |  |  |  |  | 000 | 21 |
Name of Deliverer and Position: ⟦...⟧
Signature: ⟦signature⟧
Date: 2/18/59
Name of Recipient and Position: ⟦...⟧
Signature: ⟦signature⟧
Date: 2/18/59

Page 630

Book Number 221163 Accounting 37
Receipts for Dirhams collected for the government
Serial Number 79 Fils/Dinar 21/800 Name of Department: Education in Baghdad
Revenue Article (5) ⟦Paragraph⟧ (7)
Received from the administration of Frank Iny School
The amount of twenty-one dinars and eight hundred fils
On account of the prices of school books according to the dispatch list
27/1864
1959/2/18
Dated 22 / 2 / 1959
Signature of the collector ⟦illegible⟧
Job Title: Primary School Accountant

Page 631

Frank Iny School
FRANK INY SCHOOL
Intermediate and Primary
INTERMEDIATE & PRIMARY
Baghdad
Baghdad
Telephone No. 91693
Telephone No. 91693
No. / الرقم: 59/F
Date / التاريخ: 3 / 11 / 1959
⟦252⟧
Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province / Rusafa
Greetings.
We enclose herewith a list of the names of the textbooks for the intermediate and secondary studies
that we need for the academic year 1959 / 1960. Please kindly order them to be supplied
to us.
Please accept our highest respect.
Abdullah Obadia
The Director
⟦illegible⟧

Page 632

Book Name | Quantity
First Intermediate Grade |
Arabic Reading Part 1 | 85 New
Preparatory Grammar Part 1 | 85 New
Literary Texts | 85 New
Principles of General Science Part 1 | 85 New
Geography | 5 ⟦Used⟧
History | 85
Plane Geometry Part One | 40
General Arithmetic Part 1 | 10
Fifth Preparatory Grade |
Literary Texts | 20 New
Preparatory Algebra Part 2 | 10 ⟦Used⟧
Solid Geometry | 5
Preparatory Physics Part 2 | 5
Mathematical Tables | 20
Second Intermediate Grade |
Arabic Reading Part 2 | 80 New
Preparatory Grammar Part 2 | 80 New
Literary Texts | 80 New
Geography | 80 New
History | 80 New
Assignments | 20 ⟦Used⟧
Geometry Part Two | 30
General Arithmetic Part 2 | 30
Third Intermediate Grade |
Arabic Reading Part 2 | 55 New
Preparatory Grammar Part 3 | 55 New
History of Arabic Literature | 55 New
Practical Physics | 10 ⟦Used⟧
Health and Physiology | 30
Intermediate Algebra Part 3 | 20
Plane Geometry Part 3 | 40 ⟦Used⟧
Assignments | 30
Fourth Preparatory Grade |
Secondary Reading Part 1 Fourth and Fifth | 50 New
Literary Texts | 35 New
General Chemistry | 10 ⟦Used⟧
Botany | 5
⟦illegible⟧

Page 634

Frank Iny School
Intermediate & Primary
Baghdad
Telephone No. 91693
FRANK INY SCHOOL
INTERMEDIATE & PRIMARY
Baghdad
Telephone No. 91693
No.: F/ 509
Date: 4 / 11 / 1959
No.:
Date:
Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province / Rusafa
Greetings.
Reference to your letter numbered 3046 and dated 22 / 10 / 1959.
1- We attach herewith a list of the names of the books that the school needs; please be so kind as to order their supply to us.
2- Reference to the second paragraph of your above letter, considering that the school principal is responsible for the intermediate section and the administration of Shamash Preparatory School, it is difficult for him to come to receive the books. Therefore, please deliver the books supplied to us to Ms. Hanna Serafin Darwish, who is a teacher on the permanent staff of the primary section of our school.
Please accept our highest respect.
⟦illegible signature⟧
Abdullah Ovadia
Principal

Page 635

Book Title | Grade | Number of Copies Required
Arithmetic | Second Primary | 30
New in Spelling " | " | 30
Arithmetic | Third Primary | 20
History of Ancient Man | " " | 20
Arithmetic | Fourth | 10
Assignments | " " | 20
History | " " | 10
Arithmetic | Fifth Primary | 60 New
Arithmetic | Sixth | 10
⟦...⟧
⟦The Manager⟧

Page 636

Frank Iny School
FRANK INY SCHOOL
Intermediate & Primary
INTERMEDIATE & PRIMARY
Baghdad
Baghdad
Telephone No. 91693
Telephone No. 91693
No. ⟦line⟧ No. F/596
Date ⟦line⟧ Date 12/28/1959
Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province / Al-Rusafa
Greetings.
Please be so kind as to order the supply of the books whose names and quantities are listed below in view
of our need for them.
Please accept our highest respect.
⟦Abdullah Owaidia⟧
Abdullah Owaidia
The Director
Quantity | Book Name | Grade
20 | Spelling | Second Primary
60 | My Language | Fifth Primary - received P1 P2 P3 P4
30 | Principles of Science and Health | Sixth " <del>received P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6</del>
30 | History | Sixth " - received P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6

Page 637

Frank Iny School
FRANK INY SCHOOL
Intermediate and Primary
INTERMEDIATE & PRIMARY
Baghdad
Baghdad
Telephone Number 91693
Telephone No. 91693
No. F/509 ⟦line⟧
Date 3 / 11 / 1959 ⟦line⟧
Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province / Al-Rusafa
Greetings.
We enclose herewith a list of the names of textbooks for the intermediate and preparatory studies
that we need for the academic year 59 / 1960. Please kindly order them to be supplied
to us.
Please accept our highest respect.
⟦illegible⟧
Abdullah Owaidia
The Director

Page 638

FRANK INY SCHOOL
INTERMEDIATE & PRIMARY
Baghdad
Telephone No. 91693
Frank Iny School
Intermediate and Primary
Baghdad
Telephone Number 91693
No.:
Number: F / 60
Date:
Date: 3 / 3 / 1960
Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province / Al-Rusafa
Subject / Request for new books
Greetings.
With reference to your letter No. 9221 dated 23 / 2 / 1960.
We attach herewith a list of the names of the books we need which arrived at the
Rusafa book warehouse recently.
Please accept our highest respect.
⟦illegible⟧
Abdullah Odia
The Director

Page 639

Attached is our letter numbered F/ 60 /
Arabic Reading | Third Primary | 45
Principles of Science and Health | Fourth Primary | 55
Arabic Reading | Fourth Primary | 55 | Received M1 M2 M3
Arabic Reading | Fifth Primary | 60
My Language | Fifth Primary | 60 | Received M5 M6 M7
History | Sixth Primary | 30 | Received M3 M4 M5 M6
My Language | Sixth Primary | 30 | Received M3 M4 M5
⟦illegible⟧
⟦Principal of Frank Aini School⟧
⟦illegible⟧

Page 640

FRANK INY SCHOOL
INTERMEDIATE & PRIMARY
Baghdad
Telephone No. 91693
Frank Iny School
Intermediate and Primary
Baghdad
Telephone Number 91693
No. ⟦line⟧ Number: F / 56 / 509
Date ⟦line⟧ Date: 17 / 3 / 1959
Directorate of Education for the Baghdad District
Greetings.
Please be so kind as to order providing us with the books listed by name and quantity below
in view of the school's need for them.
Please accept our highest respect.
⟦signature⟧
Abdullah Odia
The Principal
Quantity | Book Name |
40 | First Arithmetic Workbook Part 2 | First Primary Grade
40 | " " " " 3 | " " "
80 | Khalidiya Reading | " " "
80 | Spelling Book | " Second "

Page 641

FRANK INY SCHOOL
INTERMEDIATE & PRIMARY
Baghdad
Telephone No. 91693
Frank Iny School
Intermediate and Primary
Baghdad
Telephone Number 91693
No.:
Date:
No.: F/59/⟦12⟧
Date: 1/15/1959
Directorate of Education for the Baghdad Province
Greetings.
Your letter 2460 on 1/13/1959.
Please be so kind as to order providing us with the books listed by name and quantity below due to
the school's need for them and because we have not been provided with any copies of them previously.
Please accept our highest respect.
Abdullah Obadiah
The Director
80 | Preparatory Reading | for the first intermediate classes
80 | Preparatory Grammar | " " "
80 | Literary Texts | " " "
80 | Science and Health | " " "
⟦illegible⟧

Page 642

Established 1920
Folio ⟦line⟧ 195⟦...⟧
M: FRANK INY SCHOOL,
at: B A G H D A D.
Dr. to:
Mackenzie Bookstore: Baghdad
(MACKENZIE & MACKENZIE)
THE BOOKSHOP,
BAGHDAD.
Booksellers, Publishers, and Stationers,
Telephone No 83304 Telephone Number 83304
TELEGRAMS: CODES
"MACKENZIE'S BOOKSHOP A.B.C. 6TH. EDITION
BAGHDAD" BENTLEYS.
* * * * * * * *
OUT-OF-PRINT
BOOKS ARE
SOUGHT FOR
AND FOUND
* * * * * * * *
PRINTING AND
PUBLISHING
BY
THE LEADING
ENGLISH AND
EGYPTIAN
FIRMS.
* * * * * * * *
* * * * * * * *
A SPECIALITY
IS MADE OF OLD
AND RARE BOOKS
DEALING WITH
IRAQ. ARABIA
AND PERSIA
* * * * * * * *
BOOKS NOT IN
STOCK ARE PRO-
CURED PROMPTLY
FROM ANY PART
OF THE WOLRD
* * * * * * * *
25 | Oxford English Course for Iraq Book I @ 080 | 2.000
45 | " " " " " II @ 150 | 6.750
20 | Fables and Fairy Tales @ 100 | 2.000
35 | Tom and Carl by D.M. Mannell @ 100 | 3.500
25 | Oxford English Course for Iraq Book III @ 200 | 5.000
30 | Brighter Grammar Book I @ 120 | 3.600
30 | " " " II @ 120 | 3.600
20 | Stories from the Near East @ 100 | 2.000
45 | Lorna Doone - Simplified Series @ 170 | 7.650
20 | The Golden Earth by Michael West @ 100 | 2.000
20 | Durell: Elementary Geometry @ 600 | 12.000
10 | Durell: General Arithmetic for Schools @ 750 | 7.500
40 | Oxford English Course Book 4 @ 200 | 8.000
5 | Brighter Grammar Book 4 @ 120 | .600
35 | The Children of the New Forest @ 170 | 5.950
25 | The Black Tulip - Simplified @ 170 | 4.250
85 | Oxford English Course for Iraq Book 5 @ 240 | 20.400
10 | Hill: Comprehension and Precis Pieces @ 150 | 1.500
20 | Shirley - Charlotte Bronte @ 240 | 4.800
15 | The Lady with a Lamp @ 210 | 3.150
30 | Silas Marner - Simplified @ 170 | 5.100
30 | The Mill on the Floss @ 170 | 5.100
100 | Living English Structure @ 500 | 50.000
5 | Elementary Science Book II @ 330 | 1.650
20 | Introd. Exercises in Comp. & Expression @ 210 | 4.200
15 | Emil and the Detectives @ 120 | 1.800
40 | Chapman: Precis Writing @ 150 | 6.000
90 | English Comp. for foreign students @ 390 | 35.100
40 | English Occasions - Johnson @ 300 | 12.000
c/forward .... 227.200
⟦illegible⟧
Raised as of

Page 643

List of names of textbooks required to be purchased
for the various grades for the school year
1958 - 1959
Primary:
Attached is our letter numbered F/: 58 /
And dated: / / 1958
Book Name | Number of Copies | Grade
Arithmetic Workbook Part 1 | 40 | First Primary
Arithmetic Workbook Part 2 | 40 | " "
Arithmetic Workbook Part 3 | 40 | " "
Reading (Spelling Book) | 35 | Second
Arithmetic | 20 | " "
Reading | 60 | Third
History | 60 | " "
Arithmetic | 30 | " "
<del>Duties</del> | 15 | Fourth
Grammar Part 1 | 15 | " "
Geography | 15 | " "
History of Your Country | 20 | " "
Things | 15 | " "
Health | 20 | " "
Arithmetic | 15 | " "
Grammar Part 2 | 15 | Fifth "
History of Your Country | 35 | " "
Geography | 35 | " "
<del>Duties</del> | 20 | " "
Reading | 15 | " "
Arithmetic | 30 | " "
Health | 20 | " "
Things | 20 | " "
Reading | 15 | Sixth "
Arithmetic | 20 | " "
Things | 10 | " "
Health | 10 | " "
History | 12 | " "
Geography | 15 | " "
<del>Duties</del> | 7 | " "
Grammar Part 3 | 20 | " "
⟦line⟧

Page 644

FRANK INY SCHOOL
INTERMEDIATE & PRIMARY
Baghdad
Telephone No. 91693
Frank Iny School
Intermediate and Primary
Baghdad
Telephone Number 91693
No.:
Date.:
Number: 590
Date: 4 / 1 / 1959
Directorate of Education for the Baghdad Province
Greetings.
Your letter 45231 on 28 / 12 / 1958.
Please be so kind as to order the supply of (38) copies of the Moral Duties book
for the sixth primary grade.
Please accept our highest respect.
⟦illegible⟧
Abdullah Obadia
The Principal

Page 645

Frank Iny School
Intermediate and Primary
Baghdad
Telephone Number 91693
FRANK INY SCHOOL
INTERMEDIATE & PRIMARY
Baghdad
Telephone No. 91693
Number: 295 / 58
Date: 23 / 12 / 1958
No.:
Date:
Directorate of Education for the Baghdad Province
Greetings,
Your letters 44856 and 44858 on 25 / 12 / 1958.
Please be so kind as to order the supply of books whose numbers and names are listed below
due to the school's urgent need for them.
Please accept our highest respect.
Abdullah Obadia
The Director
35 | ⟦A Tale of Two Cities⟧ | For the fifth preparatory grade
85 | Geography of Iraq | For the first intermediate grade
24 | Criticism and Rhetoric | For the fourth preparatory grade
20 | General Arithmetic Part 2 | For the second intermediate grade
10 | Geography | For the third intermediate grade
80 | Reading | For the first intermediate grade
80 | Grammar Part 1 | For the first intermediate grade
80 | Science | For the first intermediate grade

Page 646

FRANK INY SCHOOL
INTERMEDIATE & PRIMARY
Baghdad
Telephone No. 91693
Frank Iny School
Intermediate and Primary
Baghdad
Telephone Number 91693
No. 586
Date 4 / 10 / 1950
Directorate of Education for the Baghdad Province
Greetings.
Please order the supply of books whose names and numbers are listed in the attached
list, in view of the school's need for them.
Please accept our highest respect.
⟦illegible stamp/signature⟧
Abdullah Obadia
The Director

Page 648

FRANK INY SCHOOL
INTERMEDIATE & PRIMARY
Baghdad
Telephone No. 91693
Frank Iny School
Intermediate and Primary
Baghdad
Telephone Number 91693
No. ⟦line⟧ Number: 528
Date ⟦line⟧ Date: 20 / 10 / 1958
Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province
Greetings,
Please order the supply of (30) copies of the Arithmetic book for the fifth primary grade
In view of the school's need for them.
Please accept our highest respect.
⟦Abdullah Obadia⟧
Abdullah Obadia
The Director

Page 649

FRANK INY SCHOOL
INTERMEDIATE & PRIMARY
Baghdad
Telephone No. 91693
Frank Iny School
Intermediate and Primary
Baghdad
Telephone Number 91693
No.:
Date:
Number: F/ ⟦227⟧ 58
Date: 20 / 10 / 1958
Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province
Greetings.
Please order the supply of the books whose names and quantities are mentioned in the attached list
herewith, in view of the school's need for them.
Please accept our highest respect.
⟦illegible signature⟧
Abdullah Obadia
The Principal

Page 650

Number of Copies | Book Name
25 | Diwan of Arabic Literature for the Fifth Preparatory Grade
30 | General Arithmetic Part One for the First Intermediate Grade
5 | General Arithmetic Part Two for the Second Intermediate Grade
30 | Geometry Part One for the First Intermediate Grade
20 | General Science for the First Intermediate Grade
⟦Abbas Gharib⟧
1958/10/20