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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 Paris Office.
Group title: General, Montenegro.
On caption card: (1/1510)
Used in: Red Cross Bulletin 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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american red cross
montenegro
glass negatives
first american visit
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rags
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high resolution
library of congress
group of people
Date
01/01/1920
Location
montenegro
Source
Library of Congress
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