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A black and white photo of a train coming down the tracks. Office of War Information Photograph
Yampai, Arizona. Brakeman and the conductor inspecting the train during a stop on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Seligman, Arizona and Needles, California
A black and white photo of a train on the tracks. Office of War Information Photograph
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American, Italian and Swiss Red Cross officials at Buchs on Swiss Austrian frontier before Italian train on which 600 tuberculosis and starving Italian soldiers come through from Austrian prison camps, each week. American Red Cross supplies of all sorts are distibuted to these half naked, and dying Italians
Packing food for our prisoners in Germany at A.R.C. packing plant at Bumpliz near Berne, Switzerland. This is only one room of a four story building with special railroad sidings, chutes, freight yards, etc. There are two other such buildings in Switzerland, one at Kehrsatz (for clothing) near Berne, and a second storehouse at Renens, near Lasusanne, Switzerland. Another reserve storehouse under the control of the American Red Cross Commission is at Copenhagen Denmark, under the direction of W.W. Husband, of the A.R.C. (prisoners of war) commission in Switzerland
Packages for prisoners of war and internees. Americans taken prisoners of war or interned by Germany and Italy regularly receive standard American Red Cross food packages, shown here stacked like bricks in the International Red Cross warehouse at Geneva, Switzerland. U.S. prisoners of war receive one package a week as soon as the Red Cross is notified of their capture and location. Internees receive one package every two weeks. As of December 9, 1942, Germany and Italy had reported 243 American prisoners of war and 1512 interned civilians. Each package weighs eleven pounds and contains evaporated milk, buscuits, cheese, cocoa, sardines, pork, beef, chocolate bars, sugar, coffee, powered orange concentrate, prunes, cigarettes and smoking tobacco
Packages for prisoners of war and internees. Americans taken prisoners of war or interned by Germany and Italy regularly receive standard American Red Cross food packages, shown here stacked like bricks in the International Red Cross warehouse at Geneva, Switzerland. U.S. prisoners of war receive one package a week as soon as the Red Cross is notified of their capture and location. Internees receive one package every two weeks. As of December 9, 1942, Germany and Italy had reported 243 American prisoners of war and 1512 interned civilians. Each package weighs eleven pounds and contains evaporated milk, buscuits, cheese, cocoa, sardines, pork, beef, chocolate bars, sugar, coffee, powered orange concentrate, prunes, cigarettes and smoking tobacco
Warehouse platform at Kehrsatz, near Berne, where clothing is made up into bales and shipped in carload lots directly to American prisoners in Germany. This big warehouse handles clothing only. The packing, storage and shipping of trainloads of food boxes for American prisoners in Germany is done from Bumplitz, 3 miles from Berne where Swiss, interned Allied soldiers and other needy persons are given employment in the packing room. The American Red Cross has another store house at Renens, near Lausanne, and a reserve store house at Copenhagen, Denmark, the latter in charge of W.W. Husband of the Swiss Commission of the Red Cross
American Repair Balkan Bridge. Many of the bridges of Montenegro were destroyed or wrecked by the retreating Austrians. Through the efforts of the American Red Cross transportation department, many of them have been repaired and maintained in a fairly safe condition, although permanent repairs are a matter to be taken up later by the Serbian government. These temporary repairs have been necessary for the carrying out of the work of the Red Cross, making possible the successful transportation of supplies for relief. The bridge in the photograph was built by a Turkish pasha 500 years ago and is a fine example of thoroughgoing early construction. Although the Austrians placed several heavy charges of dynamite under the arch, the bridge withstood the shock fairly well
Photo taken at Basle, Switzerland on Dec. 7 upon arrival first American prisoners released from Ratstatt prison camp in trainload lot. Girl in Alsatian costume has Sergt. Chas. A. Groghegan, 511 W. 185 St., NYC, by the arm. No. 2 is Sergt. R. Halyburton of Stony Point, NC, first American soldier captured by Germans. Halyburton and Geoghegan prevented circulation of "American in Europe" a German propaganda sheet in American camp at Ratstatt and warned German commandant if Americans not treated well they preferred to be shot. As punishment Geoghegan and Halyburton sent to Tuchel, East Prussia, where they were harnessed to wagons like horses worked dawn to late at night on thin soup diet. Russians harnessed with them died in traces. Halyburton and Geoghegan loading their bodies on wagons. Halyburton worshipped by his 3,000 men. Both men lost about 40 pounds at Tuchel but have picked up with ARC food boxes at Ratstatt. Girls on each side of Geoghegan and Alsatienne are ARC girls who went to Ratstatt prison camp with American sanitary train nursing American wounded
One of two hospitals at Fribourg where American soldiers who are attained with disease, contracted in German prisoner camps will be treated. This is but one of many hospitals which are at disposition of the A.R.C. in Switzerland. Two big hospitals with annexes built with A.R.C. money have been places at the disposal of the A.R.C. at Leysin and Montana, in the Swiss mountains. The ARC also is enlarging and buying grounds adjacent to a big hospital in Berne, the capital of Switzerland, where American soldiers will receive treatment. American nurses under the direction of Dr. Alfred Worcester of Waltham, Massachusetts. Deputy Commissioner of the ARC in Switz. will attend to these American soldiers
After inspecting the sanitary conditions in military areas, with special reference to the spread of typhus and other infectious diseases, the members of the Interallied Medical Commission sent by the League of Red Cross Societies to study the typhus situation in Poland were conducted by Dr. Trenkner and Dr. Rajchman of the Polish Ministry of Public Health to typical districts under civil administration. The tour was effected in Ford cars, and the photograph shows a halt at a town near Cracow. The Commission found that the present epidemic of typhus was wide spread and the number of deaths enormous. The Polish Medical Authorities are carrying on as active a campaign against typhus as their resources permit, but they are terribly handicapped by the lack of soap, disinfectants, drugs, sheets, blankets, clothing and hospital equipment
Arrival of trainload of Italian prisoners from Austrian prison camps at Buchs on the Austro-Swiss frontier. A trainload of these repatriated prisoners, 12 to 15 cars long, containing about 600 men arrives at Buchs each week. Messrs. J. Cooke-Smith, Prof. H. Rushton Fairclough, of Stanford Univ. and Mr. Russley of the American Red Cross meet this train each week and distribute clothing, food, comforts of all sorts, American flags and flowers to the unfortunates. Their condition is deplorable. They are all tuberculous. Several cars contain the bad cases who are in the last stages. Every man has been starved, exposed to all sorts of weather with insufficient clothing, given insufficient medical treatment and otherwise neglected. Many arrive with rags of this shirts covering their nakedness. Many are bare to the waists. Red Cross nurses cover them with blankets. Hundreds have no shoes and wear burlap bags tied around their feet with cords. Others have purulent wounds and running sores from neglect. Dozens are mad and must be given sedatives to keep them from violence. Several die on the journey across Switzerland of each trainload arriving from Austria
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Caption from negative sleeve: Berne. Arrival of Trainload.
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Colin [Joseph A. Collin]
On caption card: Reproduction.
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
01/01/1918
Location
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