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A Carload of Misery. Old Macedonians, all soldiers who fought in the war on their way to the American Red Cross hospital at Salonica to be treated for typhus during the recent epidemic in the Balkans. In order to check the spread of the disease Red Cross doctors and nurses travelled throught the Balkans trying to isolate the afflicted people. They obtained the only transportation available-freight cars and sent hundreds of them to the Red Cross station at Salonica where they could obtain proper care. Although sick enough to be in bed the old men, with characteristic Balkan fortitude, never complained throughout the journey

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A Carload of Misery. Old Macedonians, all soldiers who fought in the war on their way to the American Red Cross hospital at Salonica to be treated for typhus during the recent epidemic in the Balkans. In order to check the spread of the disease Red Cross doctors and nurses travelled throught the Balkans trying to isolate the afflicted people. They obtained the only transportation available-freight cars and sent hundreds of them to the Red Cross station at Salonica where they could obtain proper care. Although sick enough to be in bed the old men, with characteristic Balkan fortitude, never complained throughout the journey

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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: A.R.C. Balkan Comm.
Group title: Greece.
On caption card: (12/1258)
Used in: 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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Date

01/01/1919
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Location

Greece
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "American National Red Cross photograph collection," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/717_anrc.html

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