Letter to the Cultural Affairs Officer of Karkh

We are contacting you to offer completely free of charge a new website for old photos of Karkh.

It is likely that your locality already has one or more traditional or social media pages where old images of Karkh are already shown, but Oldpik offers innovations and advantages that we think may be of interest to you:

• It is an open bank of images of Karkh, both residents and the City Council itself can send photographs.
• The images appear with their description and date and can be sorted chronologically, by theme, or by upload date.
• Following the photos of Karkh, on the same page, those of the nearest localities will appear Al Kindī, Sūq al Ghazl, Al Fallūjah, Jamjamāl and Rashīdābād
• The images of Karkh will appear contextualized in higher geographic categories such as your province page, your autonomous community, your country and even continent or the entire world.

We are actually inviting Karkh to be part of the first bank of old images from around the world that has been created on the Internet. Oldpik does not aim to show famous old photographs but rather to transfer to the web the millions of photographs that citizens have in paper format in cookie or shoe boxes and that these become part of the history of the last two centuries. You cannot imagine the hundreds or thousands of photographs of your locality that are in the hands of individuals and that, together, can create a truly impressive historical heritage for Karkh. And at no cost.

From your institution in Karkh you have two ways to be part of this wonderful project:

1. Helping residents digitize images from your own organization and uploading them to Oldpik with your own user account.
2. Encouraging the residents of Karkh through social networks to digitize their photos and share them on the Karkh page of Oldpik.com

OLDPIK / KARKH
https://oldpik.com/index.php/place/asia-iraq-baghdad-karkh