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Starved refugees from Serbia who look to the Red Cross to assist them

Where Roumania is strong. It is the peasant women and men in which Roumania places her high hopes, for a regenerated nationalism. This is a type of the Transylvanian peasant woman. For five years she has taken a man's place in the field, workshop and factories. And her child does not show any neglect at that. American Red Cross workers in this district say that with a continuance of medical relief Roumania will soon regain her feet

The least of her burdens. This old Roumanian peasant woman has a load of fifty pounds of fire, wood on her back but it's not the only weight she carries. There is the loss of her husband and sons due to the War. She is the type of people that the American Red Cross is attempting to give a helping hand in its relief work in the Balkan country

This is one of a series of two pictures showing the type of people that the American Red Cross is aiding. The Age of Rags. This period of Balkan history might well be called the "age of rags." This old Montenegrin mountaineer shows the condition to which most of the people of this country have come. He has only two garments: a ragged shirt and a still more ragged pair of trousers. He, and his wife, shown in the previous picture of this series, eke out a living on a little patch of ground high up in the Black Mountains. The white flour left with them by the American Red Cross on one of its relief expeditions into the remote territory was the first they had seen in years. A skirt and some other garments that some American considered useless to him and donated to the Red Cross now adorn this old Montenegrin, who looks upon this first American visit as a special act of Providence

Throughout the Balkans many towns are enclosed by walls built by conquerors of old. Snuggled up against them will be found shacks of the poor. This one is typical. Its patch paper rood is held down by stones and junk. During the war, these people suffered greatly. The old woman pictured here has just received a visit from the American Red Cross and is holding in her lap some clothes "a gift of the American people"

Volunteer Workers in Roumania. A group of Roumanian peasants who volunteered their services to the American Red Cross at Bucharest in making garments for the poor in the devastated areas. One of the most admirable traits of these simple couuntry folk is a disposition to help their less fortunate sisters in the devastated countryside. The only return they sought was a little kerosene oil, so that they could work nights, and this the Red Cross was able to furnish them without difficulty

The Americans have come. That's what the old woman in the doorway shouted to her sick husband as this American Red Cross medical unit arrived outside the thatched cottage in the Carpathian mountains. Red Cross Nurses are forced to travel on horseback and carry their supplies in ox carts in order to bring relief to the mountain districts of Roumania

This is what this family and thousands of others like them are finding as they travel through Roumania. Driven from their farms by the war they load their portable goods onto an ox cart and set out to establish a new home. But they never reach their journey's end for no place "quite as good as the old home" presents itself. So they live like this scene in the picture. In the background can be seen an American Red Cross car which in their trips through the country stop at each little wandering camp to inquire the needs and condition of the people

Peasant Villages in Roumania that were not absolutely stripped by the Germans, Bulgars and Turks, during the enemy occupation of the country during the last two years of War, to-day have a population that is able to dress respectably on holidays or when occasion demands. These youngsters, who were photographed by a Red Cross man in Roumania, represent the most prosperous element of the peasantry

The old folks at home. This is the type of people that stand for all that is best in Roumanian life. They are peasants of a great rolling grain country and have worked on the soil since childhood. It is this type of Balkans people to whom the American Red Cross aid was extended

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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: Roumania.

On caption card: (11593)

Used in: Junior Red Cross. Dec. 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 11

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Bligny sanatorium - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Trudeau Sanitarium, Hachette. A quiet hour under the pine trees. The children have a splendid place to play in the big park that surrounds the Trudeau Sanitarium at Hachette, near Paris. The manor house of Hachette is an AMERICAN RED CROSS hospital for tubercular women. In the grounds nearby barracks have been built where about 180 children are housed, each for a period of three months or more. They are under-nourished children of tubercular tendencies, many of whom have tubercular parents. They are brought from bad living conditions in the cities, and the good nourishment and outdoor life at Hachette go far to establish their health pemanently

Dr. Baldwin. Physician in charge of the Children's Hospital, Nesle

A Sorrolla come to life. Small boys who have not seen a shower bath for years splash about at Evian, where all repatriates are forced to bathe before they are allowed to enter the life of the town. This prevents the spread of disease. These baths are prepared by the French Government and the American Red Cross for the exiles returned by the Germans from their side of the line through Switzerland to France

Dams under construction. Watts Bar Dam, shown here under construction, has a semi-outdoors type powerhouse with an enormous gantry crane (to the right of the picture) for installation and removal of units. The project is further distinguished by a control building which is entirely removed from the hydro plant, being located some 120 feet higher on top of a steep cliff and with direct connection to the switchyard behind. The windowless left wing of the control building houses the control room; the tower-like structure in the back accomodates air conditioning, restrooms, etc. The glass wall, upper level, contains the reception room with a broad semi-circular overlook terrace, the story below the terrace devoted to offices

Joseph Holt Papers: Miscellany, 1797-1917; Printed matter; Business cards

For Norge, kjaempers fodeland - gramophone disc, record label

[Turkish porter carrying tanks of kerosene on his back]

A black and white photo of a crowd of people, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

The launching of the "Amcross", Chester, Pennsylvania Members of the christening party on the launching stand. At the left are Mrs. Livingston Farrand and Miss Margaret Farrand, sponsor of the "Amcross"

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Housing Area Pearl City Peninsula, Defense Housing Project Type 47, 310 & 318 Laniwai Avenues, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

Portraits of the Vester and Whiting families and other members of the American Colony (Jerusalem)

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