Back to the stone age. Made homeless and destitute by the war, several hundred poor people of Montenegro were driven back to a life as primitive as that of the stone age. They took refuge in mountain catacombs and were found by American Red Cross workers with hardly any clothes, no bedding, no furniture and the crudest of stone cooking utensils. This picture shows a group of the modern cave dwellers at the entrance to the catacombs during a call of a Red Cross nurse, Miss Olivia E. Hamilton of Philadelphia. The Red Cross furnished them food and clothes, placed the sick in American hospitals in Albania, and found homes for many of the mothers and children
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: Children, Montenegro.
On caption card: (12/1291)
Used in: Philadelphia Delaware, Jr. Red Cross 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
Temp note: Batch 12
Tags
Date
01/01/1920
Location
montenegro
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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