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Just a Few Stones and a Vine or Two. That is what constitutes most of the mountain homes in Montenegro. The one shown here is typical. It has no chimney as there is a government tax on them, so the smoke from the open fire must find its way out as best it can. American doctors sent into the country by the Red Cross find that such living conditions lead to chronic eye trouble and consumption. Red Cross workers report that fifty percent of the population is suffering from some sort of disease. This little hut is of particular interest as much as it next to a similar one in which King Nicholas, exiled ruler of the country, was born in the tiny hamlet of Niegosh
Over the river and up the hill. The last stage in transporting American Red Cross supplies in transporting American Red Cross supplies in Albania. Albanians and Italians dragging a big American Red Cross truck across the Ishmi river toward the road to Tirana. Many rivers must be crossed in this fashion in the trip from Scutari in Northern Albania to the American Red Cross "Capital" at Tirana. Those who have not visited Albania have little idea of the tremendous difficulties overcome by American Red Cross doctors, nurses and doughboys who are working to get food, clothing and medicines of the needy Albanians
Albanians travel far for American help. Carrying their sick children on their backs this Albanian mother and father walked for three days all the way from their mountain hut in Liabinoi to the Junior Red Cross of America hospital clinic in Elbasan medical treatment and clean clothing from America were given them before they started on their weary journey back. At the clinic particular stress is laid on instruction to all mothers regarding hygiene and simple health rules for their anemic delicate children
American 'girl' on the job in Albania. In the course of a day Miss Agnes Drummond of Alton, Ill., (at the desk) member of the American Red Cross in charge of relief distribution in Scutari, Albania, considers the needs of scores of destitute and poverty stricken natives, many of them once prosperous or at least far from beggary. The picture shows a corner of one of the warehouses rooms and the shelves of American clothing contributed to the ragged, almost naked people by Red Cross Chapters in the United States. The mother and child have been aided
Fuel enough for thousands. Those who feel very badly about the fuel shortage in America might obtain a grain of comfort from this picture. This is the wood market at Podgoritza where people bring a few pounds of wood from many miles distance. Few houses are heated in Montenegro especially since the war, as the invading enemy stripped the country of what little timber it had. American Red Cross doctors have been kept on the jump this winter in an effort to stem the tide of pneumonia and other winter diseases that are attacking these destitute people as a result of their weakened vitality brought on by five years of suffering. Fuel is a luxury in this little Balkan state
Ready for the Winter. A group of Montenegrin children, who have just received garments from the American Red Cross to protect them against the rigors of the Balkan winter. As the photograph shows many of them had only one garment before this Red Cross clothes distribution, and were facing the cold weather without warm clothing. So interested are some of them in what the bundles contain that even the novelty of having their photograph taken could not overcome their curiosity and excitement over the American gift
Two flags Albanians will never forget. Old Glory and the American Red Cross emblem can be seen flying from one end of Albania to the other. They have brought a new idea to this old world country, probably the most primitive in Europe. Wherever those flags are exhibited, the people know they can look for a lightening of their burdens and a helping hand with their troubles. This shows the American Red Cross hospital at Tirana, to which American doctors and nurses go into the surrounding country to care for the sick and ailing. At the extreme right is Dr. Lloyd W. Brooke of Portland, Oreg. Director of the Tirana Hospital
Something New in Taxing Line. A scene at Podgoritza, Montenegro, showing the housing conditions. Note that there is not a chimney in sight. As there was a tax on chimney in the country under the old regime, the people preferred to let the smoke from their fires find an outlet through the windows. This led to a prevalence of eye and other diseases. American Red Cross doctors doing relief work in Montenegro say that the chimney tax scheme led to conditions that have made 60 percent of the civilian population tubercular. To combat this the Red Cross has inaugurated an educational campaign on sanitary living conditions
Victims of latest Balkan trouble. This picture shows a typical group of thousands of Albanian war victims who were interred in Montenegro during a recent Balkan squabble. The American officer is Lieut. Col. H.J. Fairclough, head of the American Red Cross Commission to Montenegro and former professor at Leland Stanford University in California. When these homeless, miserable women and children swarmed through the lines at the Serbian-Montenegro frontier they were filthy, vermin-ridden and frenzied with starvation and suffering. They were given a daily ration of American food and have since been returned to their own country by Red Cross workers co-operating with the Albanian refugee committee
Smokes for the Winter. In normal times the Albanian mountaineer is sufficient unto himself. There is little he wants from outside the world. In this picture can be seen home-grown tobacco hanging on the walls to dry. It is saved for the long winter nights when the whole family lives in one room for months. This is a typical mountain home upon which American Red Cross nurses call in their relief work in the Balkans. It is the first outside aid they have ever received and they look upon America as a nation that produces nothing but fairy-godmothers, who go about the world helping others
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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 Paris Office.
Group title: Gen. Albania.
On caption card: (1/1414)
Used in: Dr. Green T.T. & C. Feb. 1920.
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
01/01/1920
Location
albania
Source
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