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A group of young and old Romanians made happy with gift of clothing from the American Red Cross Mission. The man on the extreme right spent ten years in New York and is an American citizen. He contracted tuberculosis while serving in the Romanian Army and was an invalid home. He had a wife and two children, who were cared for by the ARC mission
A class in first aid at the U.S. Army chaplain school. Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana
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Delivering Red Cross supplies at Pirot, Serbia. The roads in many parts of Serbia are so bad that supplies can only be delivered by carts and sleds drawn by oxen
Refugees for Bulgaria. James A. Mills, an American Red Cross worker from New York, directing the leading of a relief train in Constantinople which is to take Russian refugees to Varna, Bulgaria. Box-cars still bearing the war time signs were used to transport the refugees
Bulgarian prisoners unloading American Red Cross supplies at Salonica, enroute to Serbia from a French boat, the 'Rigel', onto a French quay (in Macedonian Greece) using Italian made camions. Not Sengalese guard. Some melting pot. 2300 boxes of food and heavy machinery, 123 tons of it. Salonica is the centre of the Serbian Red Cross Commission. There are 7 warehouse there
Of all the diseases that broke out in central Europe during the last months of the war and following the armistice typhus assumed the greatest proportion, becoming epidemic in all the countries. For a time there was a grave danger that it would spread to the Western part of the continent. Early in January the American Red Cross sent medical units throughout that part of the world. They carried with them medicines, hospital tents and equipment. A systematic campaign was commenced to arradicate the scourge. In the picture one of the Red Cross ambulances is seen in Serbia bringing Typhus victims to the field hospital
Petrograd Children's Colony at Turgoyak, Siberia, maintained by the American Red Cross. Laden with their possessions, they go aboard a sampan to be ferried to the waiting barge
The Roadway into Montenegro, presents tremendous difficulties to the successful transportation of supplies during the winter months. The narrow roadway is cut from the sheer face of the mountain and rises to the height of over 4000 feet. While many accidents have occurred along this road, and the rocks beneath it are covered with the wrecks of Austrian army cars, the American Red Cross has had a remarkable record, never having lost a single truck on this "Jacob's Ladder" road in the past year and a half
The Corfu Roadstead. An airoplane view of the island city of Corfu, off the coast of Greece and Albania, with the American Red Cross hospital in the center. During the war many Red Cross relief ships for the mainland took refuge here. During the Serbian army reorganization on the island a unit of Red Cross doctors and nurses saved thousands of soldiers from the scourge of typhus
Serbia's railroad system to be rebuilt. Hauling fresh ballast by hand is the slow Serbian way of rebuilding the Skopjle-Mitrovitza section of Serbia's broken down railway system. This is the only line reaching western Serbia and one means of transporting enormous quantities of supplies to people rapidly bordering on starvation. It is believed that in time the line will be extended to Prizren, the oldest town in Serbia, and one of the most interesting in Balkans, though at present forty miles from any railroad and with a population of 100,000 people. The American Red Cross established a hospital there headed with an American doctor, dentist and two nurses
Red Cross convoy in Serbia. Hauling supplies from the American Red Cross across the Balkan mountains to south Serbia for a Red Cross hospital at Pricren. Native drivers keep close together in the mountain passes as protection against the bandits frequently met with
American Red Cross supplies arriving at Pirot, Serbia by ox-cart. In order to reach the devastated area of Serbia it was necessary for the American Red Cross to route it's shipment from Salonica by way of Dedeagatch (Bulgaria) Adrianople (Turkey) Sophia Czaribred, across the Serbian Bulgarian border a distance of over nine hundred miles, involving seven days travel
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Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Balkan Commission.
Group title: Serbia. (Supplies)
Used in: All divisions. Aug. 1919. Ex. August 27, 1919.
Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
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Date
01/01/1919
Location
Pirot
Source
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