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Summary
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: Roumania, Personnel.
On caption card: (X-1112)
Used in: To all Divisions. Aug. 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
Temp note: Batch 9
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american red cross
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roumania
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world war i
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queen
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library of congress
Date
01/01/1919
Location
Romania
Source
Library of Congress
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Copyright info
No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "American National Red Cross photograph collection," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/717_anrc.html