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IJA 3312

Correspondence between Iraqi Government and School Administration

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This is correspondence from the Iraqi government to school administrations regarding exams; student demographic information and enrollment figures; teachers’ hours and salaries; statistics; regulations; approved textbooks; school field trips; student exchange letters; an art exhibit; guidelines for technical training; and a recruitment ad for the Royal Air Force.

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IJA 3312
Item Number
14501
Date
Approx. January 1, 1951 to December 31, 1960
Languages
Arabic
Keywords
Hospital, Non-Denationalization Number, Kirkuk, Primary School, Exams, Citizenship Laws, Financial, Form, Correspondence, Secondary School Certificate, School Material, Travel, Education Administration Headquarters of Secondary Schools, Employment, Palestine, Office of Student Health, Letterhead, Technology, Office of Education – Baghdad, Ministry of Social Affairs, Limited, Middle School, Shamash Secondary School, Iraq Petroleum Company, Annotation, Iraqi Government, Ink Stamp, Crown Crest, Albert David Sasson School, King Faisal II, Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, Handwritten, High School, Baghdadi Jewish Community, Israel, Frank Iny School, Teachers, Chart, Office of Technical Affairs – Curriculum, Ministry of Health, Books, File Folder, Office of Civilian and Foreign Primary School Administration for All Boys and Girls (Schools), Teachers Union, Ministry of the Interior, Royal Air Force, Education, Military, Students, Britain, Primary Education Certificate, Directorate of Education, Typed, Standardized Test, Labor

AI English Translation, Pages 176-200

Archival unit 176

10/20/57
Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province:
Number /: 24225
Center / Records:
Date /: 10 / 15 / 957
Administrations of all official and private primary schools
Subject/ Regarding a magazine
The Directorate of General Education - Libraries - has permitted, by its letter numbered 40155 and dated 9/24/57,
the entry of the story supplement (( to the School Culture magazine issued by the administration of Bani Said
Primary School for Boys into your school and its acquisition by your school's students of their own free choice, and the price
of a single copy is (30) fils. Please be informed.
⟦signature⟧
Director of Education of Baghdad Province
The Center
A copy to /
Inspectors (male and female) of the Directorate / Please be informed /
Primary School Accountant / For information
Records Clerk / For information
Mahdi /

Archival unit 177

Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province
Center / Records
Number / 24285
Date / 15 / 10 / 957
20 / 10
To all administrations of official primary and kindergarten schools
Please visit the records clerk of this directorate during the week starting Saturday
19 / 10 / 57 until the morning of Thursday 24 / 10 / 957 (while bringing two glass bottles)
to receive the carbolic acid solution for the school's winter quota. The specialized employee will refrain from delivering this
material after the above date, and this directorate will not be responsible for the failure to equip your school, so please ensure
attendance at the appointed time.
⟦signature⟧
Director of Education of Baghdad Province
Center
A copy to /
The Records Clerk / to act accordingly
Mahdi /

Archival unit 178

Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province / Center
Personnel
Number / 22277
Date / 15 / 10 / 1957
To -
Administrations of Secondary, Intermediate, and Primary Schools
for Boys and Girls, Public, Private, and Foreign
and all Vocational Institutes and Kindergartens
We transmit to you below a copy of the letter from the Student Health Directorate No.
7946 dated 9 / 10 / 1957 for your information and to provide possible assistance
and cooperation with the health authority in its new plan for vaccination against smallpox.
⟦signature⟧
Director of Education of Baghdad Province
The Center
A copy to -
Directorate General of Education / For information please
Student Health Directorate / Your above letter for information please
Personnel
- Copy of the Letter -
⟦line⟧
On the occasion of renewing the general vaccination plan against smallpox for all
male and female students of schools in Baghdad Province, please circulate this to all
male and female school principals to provide assistance and cooperation with the health
authority, headed by the student health doctor.
Director of Student Health
Al-Tamimi / 14
299
10 / 17

Archival unit 179

288
10/9
Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province / Center:
Number /: 421
Personnel:
Date /: 8 / 10 / 1957
Administrations of all Primary, Intermediate, and Secondary Schools, Vocational Institutes,
and Kindergartens affiliated with this Directorate
The Ministry of Health has decided to detach the Merjan Hospital for Chest Diseases in Hillah and link it
directly to the Ministry. Please be informed.
⟦signature⟧
Abdul Sattar Al-Qarah Ghuli
Director of Education of Baghdad Province
Center
A copy to /
Directorate of General Education / Records / Your letter No. 41538 dated
1 / 10 / 1957
Personnel

Archival unit 180

Directorate of Education of Baghdad District / Center
Secondary Personnel
Number / ⟦2305⟧
Date 10 / 10 / 1957
Administrations of Secondary and Intermediate Schools
for Boys and Girls, both Official and Private
We transmit to you below a copy of the memorandum from the Specialist Inspector of English, Mr.
Chris Willmer, notified to us by the General Inspectorate of Education letter No. 1874 dated
1 / 10 / 1957, requesting you to act accordingly.
⟦signature⟧
Abdul Sattar Al-Qaraghouli
Director of Education of Baghdad District
Center
A copy to:-
General Inspectorate of Education - Your letter referred to above, for your kind information.
Directorate General of Education / Secondary Education, for kind information.
" " " / Curricula and Books " "
Secondary Education Personnel.
Copy of the Memorandum
⟦line⟧
This Inspectorate and the Specialist Inspectors of the English language are well aware that
the fifth (Oxford) book, along with the prescribed textbook for the third intermediate
and fourth secondary classes for this year, has not arrived at the central warehouse. This book
will be distributed upon its arrival without any delay. Therefore, all English language teachers
are requested to continue teaching the book they taught last year and were unable to
complete due to the shortness of the academic year, or to review the important points in it if it was
previously completed last year, until the arrival of the new book. Please note that there are
many other useful materials to teach as mentioned in the list of prescribed books.
Rox / 5

Archival unit 181

Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province
Center / Certificates
Number / 2207
Date / 6 / 10 / 957
Administrations of all official, private, and foreign secondary, preparatory,
and intermediate schools for boys and girls belonging to this directorate
We transmit to you a copy of the letter from the General Directorate of Education / Examinations / No.
39918 dated 23 / 9 / 957 regarding the use of new documents for all purposes
that the student may require.
⟦handwritten signature⟧
Director of Education of Baghdad Province
The Center
A copy to /
General Directorate of Education / Examinations / for your kind information /
Assistant Mr. Ihsan Al-Mukhtar
Private Education Department
Certificates Department
Mr. Abdul Ahad Nano
- Copy of the Letter -
Reference to your letter No. 8348 dated 17 / 9 / 957
The new documents shall be used for all purposes required by the student, including the transfer certificate
Please circulate the order to all intermediate and preparatory schools belonging to you.
Signature / For the Director General of Education
Mahdi /

Archival unit 182

⟦< 76⟧
⟦9 / 22⟧
Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province / Center
Certificates and Statistics
Number / 21545
Date / ⟦21⟧ / 9 / 1957
To -
Administrations of Secondary and Preparatory Schools, Official, Private
and Foreign, for boys only
We transmit to you a copy of the letter from the Ministry of Defense - Directorate of Administration No. 10 / Th 2 / 19 / 20865
dated 8 / 9 / 1957, communicated to us by the letter of the General Directorate of Education - Examinations
No. 37611 dated 11 / 9 / 1957. Please provide us with two copies of the names and addresses
of all graduates of preparatory studies for the academic year 56 / 957 for both the first and second sessions.
⟦signature⟧
Director of Education of Baghdad Province
The Center
A copy to -
Ministry of Defense - Directorate of Administration - for your kind information
General Directorate of Education / Examinations / for your kind information
Certificates Observation Office
Mr. Abdul Ahad Nano
(( Copy of the Letter ))
We list below a copy of the letter from the Ministry of Defense - Directorate of Administration No.
10 / Th 2 / 19 / 20865 dated 8 / 9 / 1957, and we request speed in sending the names
and addresses of all graduates of preparatory studies for the academic year 56 / 957 for both sessions to them
directly and informing us.
(( Copy of the Letter ))
Due to the approaching date of the opening of the twelfth Reserve Officers Course, please provide us with the names and addresses
of all graduates of preparatory schools and their equivalents for the academic year 56 / 957 for both the first and second sessions.
Major General Staff
Abdul Razzaq Hammoudi Al-Najjar
Director of Administration
Qais Ahmed

Archival unit 183

⟦22⟧
⟦2/9/57⟧
Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province / Center
Normal
Number / 8780
Secondary Personnel
Date 1 / 9 / 1957
Statement
Further to our statement No. 1942 dated 26 / 8 / 1957
It has been decided to raise the grade of Karrada Al-Sharqiya Intermediate School for Girls to a secondary school and open
one section for the fourth scientific grade and one section for the fourth literary grade
and to name the aforementioned school (Queen Alia Secondary School for Girls) - This
statement shall be implemented starting from the beginning of the academic year 1957 / 1958.
⟦signature⟧
Abdul Sattar Al-Qaraghouli
Director of Education of Baghdad Province
Center
A copy of it to: -
Directorate of General Education / Secondary Education.
" " " / Personal Record.
General Education Inspection
General Accounts Directorate
Directorate of General Guidance and Broadcasting - requesting the favor of publishing this statement
for three consecutive days.
All Provincial Education Directorates.
Central Treasury Directorate
Baghdad Province Treasury Directorate
Secondary Education Accounting
Secondary Education Personnel
Statistics and Certificates Section
Assistants of this Directorate
Administrations of all official and private secondary and intermediate schools for boys and girls.
Rox / 31

Archival unit 184

Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province / Center
Secondary Personnel
Ordinary
Number / 1708
Date 1 / 9 / 1957
Statement
Further to our statement No. 1942 dated 26 / 8 / 1957
It has been decided to upgrade Karrada Al-Sharqiya Intermediate School for Girls to a secondary school and open
one section for the fourth scientific grade and one section for the fourth literary grade
and to name the aforementioned school (Queen Alia Secondary School for Girls) - This
statement shall be implemented starting from the beginning of the academic year 57 / 1958.
⟦illegible⟧
Abdul Sattar Al-Qaraghouli
Director of Education of Baghdad Province
Center
Copy to:
Directorate of General Education / Secondary Education.
" " " / Personal Record.
General Education Inspectorate
Directorate of General Accounts
Directorate of General Guidance and Broadcasting - requesting the favor of publishing this statement
for a period of three ⟦days⟧ consecutively.
Directorates of Education of all ⟦provinces⟧.
Central Treasury Directorate
Baghdad Province Treasury Directorate
Secondary Education Accounting
Secondary Education Personnel
Statistics and Certificates Section
Assistants of this Directorate
Administrations of all official and private secondary and intermediate schools for boys and girls.
Rox / 31

Archival unit 185

Directorate of Education of Baghdad District / Center
Secondary Warehouse
268
9/18
Number / 2107
Date / 9 / 7 / 1957
17
To / -
Administrations of Preparatory Schools with Classes
Commercial
The Directorate of General Education has informed us that there is no objection to the students of
the Preparatory School of Commerce acquiring the book (Commerce: Its Organization and Management by its authors
Mr. Rushdi Hakim and Hatem Habib) and purchasing it optionally to benefit
from it in the subject of (Trade Methods) for this school year only until a
new book is authored.
⟦signature⟧
A copy of it to / -
Director of Education of Baghdad District
The Center
Book Warehouse Supervisor - Secondary -
With the original correspondence
Aziz / 15

Archival unit 186

Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province / Center
Personnel Department
Number / 725
Date 27 / 8 / 1957
Administrations of official and private schools affiliated
with this directorate of all various levels.
We transmit to you below the text of the letter from the General Directorate of Education / Personnel No.
23617 dated 22 / 8 / 1957 regarding the general registration for the year 1957, requesting
review and action in accordance with what is stated therein.
Abdul Sattar Al-Qaraghuli
Director of Education of Baghdad Province
Center
A copy to:-
General Directorate of Education / Personnel - your letter referred to above.
Personnel Division - to notify the employees and staff of this directorate of its contents.
Text of the Letter
⟦line⟧
Presidency of the Iraqi Scientific Academy
Directorate General of Antiquities
Directorate General of Banks
Assistantship of General Education
Deanships of Colleges and Higher Institutes
We transmit to you below a copy of the letter from the Diwan of the Council of Ministers No. 3839 dated
17 / 8 / 1957, requesting your review of it.
On behalf of the Minister of Education
Abboud Zalzala
A copy to:-
Heads of Departments and Heads of Divisions
" Education of all Provinces
Schools affiliated with the Diwan
(Copy of the Letter)
Ministry of Social Affairs
Subject: - General Registration for the year 1957
In the sixty-eighth session of the Council of Ministers held on 12 / 8 / 1957 -
Your letter No. 9478 dated 31 / 7 / 1957 was read, proposing the closure of departments and institutions
official and unofficial government offices and other public facilities on October 12, 957
as well as stopping the movement and traffic of citizens and means of transport on the mentioned day
except by virtue of a special permit issued by the Director General of Population or his authorized representative according to the text of
Paragraph (b) of Article Seven of the Population Registration Law No. 59 of 1955, and that
on the occasion of the general registration.
After deliberating opinions and listening to the explanations of the Minister of Social Affairs, the Council approved
the proposal and agreed to it, and this decision has been coupled with the Royal Sanction.
Munir Al-Qadi
Head of the Diwan
Rox / 26

Archival unit 187

⟦Kingdom of Iraq⟧
⟦Ministry of Education⟧
Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province / Center
Personnel Department
Number / 7728
Date / 10 / 8 / 1957
(( Statement ))
Based on the letter from the Presidency of the General Provincial Council / Baghdad Provincial Governorate / Number
8866 dated 25 / 7 / 1957.
We have decided to open the schools listed below starting from the beginning of the academic year
Next 1957 / 1958.
1- A school for boys in the Eastern Arkheita area.
2- A school for children in the Eastern Arkheita area.
3- A school for children in the lands of Al-Haj Ali Al-Bayaa.
4- A school for children in the Al-Shakiriya area.
5- A mixed primary school in the Oil Refineries area in Al-Dora.
6- A school for girls with a kindergarten in the Al-Ju'aifer area.
⟦signature⟧
Abdul Sattar Al-Qarahghouli
Director of Education of Baghdad Province
Center
A copy to-
Ministry of Interior - Local Administration
General Directorate of Education / Primary Education
General Directorate of Education / Personnel Records
General Inspectorate of Education
General Accounts Audit
General Directorate of Guidance and Broadcasting - Please kindly broadcast this statement for
three consecutive days.
General Directorate of Government Oil Refineries
Presidency of the General Provincial Council / Baghdad Provincial Governorate
All Provincial Directorates of Education
Treasury Directorate of Baghdad Province
Treasury Mission of Local Administration
Al-Haj Ali Al-Bayaa
All departments of this Directorate
Personnel Observation
Al-Tamimi / 8 / 1

Archival unit 188

Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province / Center
Personnel Department
Number / 725
Date 27 / 8 / 1957
Administrations of official and private schools associated
with this directorate of all various levels.
We transmit to you below the text of the letter from the Directorate of General Education / Personnel No.
23617 dated 22 / 8 / 1957 regarding the general registration for the year 1957, requesting
review and action in accordance with what is stated therein.
⟦signature⟧
Abdul Sattar Al-Qaraghuli
Director of Education of Baghdad Province
Center
A copy to:-
Directorate of General Education / Personnel - your letter referred to above.
Personnel Division - to notify the employees and staff of this directorate of its contents.
Text of the Letter
⟦line⟧
Presidency of the Iraqi Scientific Academy
Directorate General of Antiquities
Directorate of General Education
Assistant for General Education
Deanships of Colleges and Higher Institutes
We transmit to you below a copy of the letter from the Diwan of the Council of Ministers No. 3839 dated
17 / 8 / 1957, requesting your review of it.
On behalf of the Minister of Education
Abboud Zalzala
A copy to:-
Department Directors and Heads of Divisions
Education of all Provinces
Schools associated with the Diwan
(Copy of the Letter)
⟦line⟧
Ministry of Social Affairs
Subject - General Registration for the year 1957.
In the sixty-eighth session of the Council of Ministers held on 12 / 8 / 1957 -
Your letter No. 9478 dated 31 / 7 / 1957 was read, proposing the suspension of official and
unofficial government departments and institutions and other public facilities on October 12, 957
as well as stopping the movement and traffic of citizens and means of transport on the mentioned day
except by a special permit issued by the Director General of Population or his designee according to the text of
Paragraph (b) of Article Seven of the Population Registration Law No. 59 of 1955, and that
on the occasion of the general registration.
After deliberating opinions and listening to the explanations of the Minister of Social Affairs, the Council approved
the proposal and agreed to it, and this decision was accompanied by the Royal Sanction.
Munir Al-Qadi
Head of the Diwan
Rox / 26

Archival unit 190

Directorate of Education of Baghdad Liwa / Center
Secondary Education Personnel
Number / ⟦7827⟧
Date ⟦9 / 1957⟧
Statement
We have decided to name Al-Ru'ya Intermediate School for Girls (The New Conquest) as Baghdad
Intermediate School for Girls.
This statement shall be implemented as of the date of its issuance.
⟦signature⟧
Abdul Sattar Al-Qaraghuli
Director of Education of Baghdad Liwa
Center
A copy to:
Ministry of Finance
Directorate of General Accounts
General Accounts Audit Office
Directorate of General Education / Secondary Education.
" " " / Personal Record
Directorate of Guidance, Broadcasting ⟦and Press⟧, please broadcast it for three days.
General Education Inspectorate
All Liwa Education Directorates
Central Treasury Directorate
Baghdad Liwa Treasury Directorate
Secondary Education Accounting
Personnel " "
Records Division
Books and Stationery Store
Statistics and Certificates Observation
Assistants of this Directorate
Administrations of Secondary and Intermediate Schools for Boys and Girls, Official and Private.
Rox / 10

Archival unit 191

Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province / Center
Secondary Personnel
Number / 19420
Date / 26 / 8 / 1957
25
⟦8 / 27⟧
26
Statement
Based on the letter of the General Directorate of Education No. 23668 dated
22 / 8 / 1957.
It has been decided to upgrade the Karrada Al-Sharqiya Intermediate School for Girls to a high school and open one
section for the fourth scientific grade and one section for the fourth literary grade and name
the mentioned school (Karrada Al-Sharqiya High School for Girls). This statement shall be implemented
starting from the beginning of the academic year 1957 / 1958.
⟦signature⟧
Abdul Sattar Al-Qaraghuli
Director of Education of Baghdad Province
Center
A copy to:
General Directorate of Education / Secondary Education
" " " / Personal Record
General Inspectorate of Education
General Directorate of Accounts
Central Treasury Directorate
Treasury Directorate of Baghdad Province
Secondary Education Accounting
Secondary Education Personnel
Statistics and Certificates Section
Assistants of this Directorate
Administrations of all official and private secondary and intermediate schools for boys and girls.
Rukan / 25

Archival unit 192

Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province / Center
Secondary Personnel
Number / 1942
Date / 8 / 1957
26
Ordinary
Statement
Based on the letter of the General Directorate of Education No. 23668 dated
22 / 8 / 1957.
It has been decided to upgrade the Karrada Al-Sharqiya Intermediate School for Girls to a secondary school and open one
section for the fourth scientific grade and one section for the fourth literary grade and to name
the mentioned school (Karrada Al-Sharqiya Secondary School for Girls). This statement shall be implemented
starting from the beginning of the academic year 1957 / 1958.
⟦signature⟧
Abdul Sattar Al-Qaraghouli
Director of Education of Baghdad Province
Center
A copy to:
General Directorate of Education / Secondary Education
" " " / Personal Record
General Inspectorate of Education
General Directorate of Accounts
Central Treasury Directorate
Treasury Directorate of Baghdad Province
Secondary Education Accounting
Secondary Education Personnel
Statistics and Certificates Section
Assistants of this Directorate
Administrations of all official and private secondary and intermediate schools for boys and girls.
Rox / 25

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222
N 22
Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province / Center
Certificates
Number 18906
Date 20 / 8 / 1957
Very Urgent
Immediately
To / Administrations of Secondary and Intermediate Schools for Boys and Girls
Official, Private, and Foreign, affiliated with this Directorate
We provide you below with a copy of the letter from the General Directorate of Education / Examinations No. 32623
Dated 17 / 8 / 1957 regarding paragraph 14 of the new document instructions
Hoping for your review and to act accordingly with full precision.
⟦illegible⟧
On behalf of the Director of Education of Baghdad Province
Center
A copy to /-
General Directorate of Education / Examinations / Your letter referred to above
Certificates Observation
Mr. Abdul Ahad Nano
Copy of the Letter
In view of the many questions we receive regarding paragraph / 14 of the instructions for issuing documents to students
of secondary schools sent in our letter No. 28767 dated 23 / 7 / 1957
The meaning of the phrase (Information may not be entered in the document except with an ink pen) is that the
information should be entered in the original copy given to the student in ink, while the second copy of the document
which remains in the register, there is no objection to it being in carbon. Please notify the schools affiliated with your directorate
of this.
General Director of Education
Saeed Safu
Aziz / 21

Archival unit 194

Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province / Center
Secondary Education Personnel
Number / 18429
Date / 11 / 8 / 957
(( Statement ))
Based on the letter of the Directorate of General Education No. 30446 dated
3 / 8 / 1957, we have decided to open three intermediate schools for girls, the first being
in the Bab al-Sheikh area, the second in the Zwiya area, and the third in the
Karradat Maryam area for the academic year 957 / 1958.
⟦signature⟧
Abdul Sattar Al-Qarah Ghouli
Director of Education of Baghdad Province
The Center
A copy to -
Ministry of Interior / Local Administration
Ministry of Finance ⟦line⟧
Directorate of General Accounts ⟦line⟧
General Audit Control ⟦line⟧
Directorate of General Education / Secondary Education
Directorate of General Education / Personnel Records
General Education Inspectorate ⟦line⟧
Directorate of General Guidance and Broadcasting ⟦line⟧
Please broadcast this statement for three consecutive days.
Provincial Directorates of Education ⟦line⟧
Treasury Directorate of Baghdad Province ⟦line⟧
Central Treasury Directorate ⟦line⟧
Secondary Education Accounting / to take necessary action
Secondary Education Personnel ⟦line⟧
Statistics Department ⟦line⟧
Books and Stationery Warehouse ⟦line⟧
Administrations of Secondary and Intermediate Schools
for boys and girls, both official and private.
Al-Tamimi / 12

Archival unit 195

Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province / Center
Certificates
Number / 18106
Date / 10 / 8 / 1957
Immediately
To :-
Administrations of official, private, and foreign preparatory, secondary, and intermediate schools
for boys and girls affiliated with this directorate, all of them
We transmit to you a copy of the letter from the General Directorate of Education / Examinations No. 28997
dated 23 / 7 / 1957 regarding the new school documents. School principals
and headmistresses authorized to sign school documents or their authorized deputies
must visit this directorate, Certificates Section, to receive their share of the new
documents along with the instructions and forms related to them, provided that this is before 8 / 9 / 1957
Abdul Sattar Al-Qaraghouli
Director of Education of Baghdad Province
Center
A copy to :-
General Directorate of Education / Examinations / For your kind information
Certificates Observation
Mr. Abdul Ahad Nano
((( Copy of the Letter )))
1 - To ensure the public interest and prevent forgery that may occur in school documents, we have printed
registers for school documents for intermediate and preparatory studies with serial numbers, and we have decided
to distribute them according to what is listed below
2 - The registers shall be kept by you in an iron safe, provided they are distributed to the official and private
intermediate and preparatory schools in the province, all according to the need you estimate for each school
3 - A copy of the instructions for issuing school documents shall be distributed to each school, provided these instructions are applied
with full accuracy. The school principal and the provincial director of education <del>⟦illegible⟧</del> will be responsible for applying these
instructions.
4 - These documents shall be used starting from August 10, 1957
5 - These documents shall be used for all purposes required by the student

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5 / 8 / 57
Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province / Center
Al-Maqud
Number / 7727
Date / 2 / 8 / 1957
To the administrations of all official primary schools for boys and girls, kindergartens, and vocational
and charitable institutes attached to this Directorate.
This Directorate emphasizes the necessity of following up with the owners of houses rented as schools to carry out
the necessary renovations during the summer vacation, as this Directorate does not wish to carry out
renovations after the schools open because that hinders the progress of teaching.
As for the school buildings belonging to the local administration, our Directorate will follow up on the renovations
and the additions of the rooms required to be built in them.
⟦signature⟧
Director of Education of Baghdad Province
Center
A copy to: -
Directorate of General Education / Primary
Presidency of the General Provincial Council / Baghdad Provincial Governorate / requesting the favor of ordering the implementation of
our submitted proposals regarding renovations in school buildings
owned by the local administration and indicated in our letter numbered
16233 and dated 6 / 7 / 1957
Al-Maqud / for follow-up
Fawsan /

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Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province Center
Records
Number / 16490
Date / 14 / 7 / 1957
To all administrations of public and private schools
With reference to the letter of the Directorate of General Education - Cultural Relations - No. 26696
dated 1 / 7 / 1957, the UNESCO Association for Art Education in Japan will hold its fourth exhibition
for the arts of school children in the world in April 1958, following its custom in the years 953 - 954
1957. We request you to urge and encourage your school students to produce the best materials suitable for this exhibition, while observing
the rules mentioned below with all accuracy and attention, and their production must reach us before 7 / 11 / 1957.
⟦signature⟧
Abdul Sattar Al-Targhouli
Director of Education of Baghdad Province
Center
A copy to /
Directorate of General Education / Cultural Relations / your letter above
For your kind information
Records Clerk / for follow-up and receipt
1- The age of the male or female participant must be between 3 and 18 years old
2- The following materials are to be submitted to the exhibition:-
a- Paintings on various subjects in oil and watercolors, drawings and sketches in ink or
pencil or charcoal ( ⟦...⟧ ) engraving on zinc or copper ( ⟦...⟧ )
and ( ⟦Print⟧ ) printed images by woodcuts
b- Various handicrafts
c- Subjects (pictorial composition) expressing an aspect of daily or school life
for the male or female student.
3- The following information should be written on each item submitted to the exhibition in clear handwriting in English
Full name of the male or female participant. Age. Gender. (Male or Female) Full school
address. Title of the drawing or handicraft.
Director General of Education

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2/6/1957
Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province / Center      Number / 15858
Certificates and Statistics                    Date / 20 / 6 / 1957
( Urgent )
Administrations of primary, intermediate, secondary, and preparatory schools and official kindergartens
and private and foreign schools for boys and girls, day and evening, all belonging to this directorate.
Some school administrations are still sending us documents or transfer forms by hand via their owners
and this is contrary to the instructions sent to you. Since the visits of male and female students to our directorate
leads to the disruption of our work, we emphasize the necessity of sending school documents or transfer forms
via official letters to this directorate. This directorate will refrain from certifying any document or form
of transfer not accompanied by an official letter. It is not permissible to give ⟦documents⟧ or transfer forms, even with letters,
by hand to their owners absolutely. We will also return the documents after certifying them to the school administration directly,
and the owners of the documents must visit their schools and not visit this directorate in matters related to documents.
⟦signature⟧
Abdul Sattar Al-Qaraghouli
Director of Education of Baghdad Province
Center
A copy to /
The Assistant, Mr. Ihsan Al-Mukhtar
All staff departments of this directorate / for information
Certificates Observation Office
Mr. Abdul Ahad Nano
Fursan Ahmed /