Balkan Travel De Luxe. The popular method of travel in Albania where mountain follows mountain with bewildering rapidity. This Albanian mountaineer outweighs his donkey in everything except strength and stubborness. This picture was taken outside the American Red Cross dispensary at Scutari where the rider came for snake, bite treatment after attempting unsuccessfully to cure himself by the popular method of applying cobwebs and tobacco, juice

A "good" road in Albania. This picture gives some idea of the transportation difficulties the American Red Cross workers had to overcome in taking relief to the remote mountain districts of the Balkans. Supplies were transported by mule and pack horse, while the roads are nothing more than goat trails in most cases. This picture shows a Red Cross caravan on what the Albanian say is a "good" road. On the rear pack horse sits a Red Cross doctor with a handkerchief on his head to protect him from the hot sun

The Jacob's Ladder of Montenegro. Leading from the city of Cattaro to Cettinje is the great stone highway that winds its way up the mountain side making 27 turns before reaching the summit overlooking the bay. The distance direct is a mile, but by the road it is ten. It is over this highway that the American Red Cross hauls all its supplies from its bases at Teodo and Cattaro for interior points of Montenegro and Albania. The route is very dangerous at many points as the rustling hulks of trucks and cars at the bottom of the cliffs will testify

The Ambulance of the Hillmen. American Red Cross nurse at Tirana, Albania, unloading a patient from the mountain ambulance of the hillmen, a donkey. Riding astride a donkey is the smoothest and easiest method of travelling in the rough trails of the mountain country. There are few roads in Albania many miles to the American Red Cross hospitals

Black sheep of the Balkans. This is the mascot of the American Red Cross Unit at Tirana, Albania, where a hospital dispensary and childrens school have been established. Black sheep are the most valuable livestock in the Balkans. Their wool is spun and woven into garments without dyeing, thereby eliminating an expensive process in the Balkans. This lamb was presented to Miss Margaret Mosely-Williams, the nurse in the picture by a grateful Albanian patient in the Red Cross hospital

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

Walled in by nature. A view of the city of Elbasan in Albania. It is situated on one of the rockiest and most barren parts of Albania and its only lines of communication with the outside world are mountain trails. The American Red Cross had to bring its supplies in by pack mules and ox carts. The town is almost a law unto itself, rarely having any visitors from the outside world. The people were hit hard by the War and are especially appreciative of the aid that came from America

Balkan Travel De Luxe. The popular method of travel in Albania where mountain follows mountain with bewildering rapidity. This Albanian mountaineer outweighs his donkey in everything except strength and stubborness. This picture was taken outside the American Red Cross dispensary at Scutari where the rider came for snake, bite treatment after attempting unsuccessfully to cure himself by the popular method of applying cobwebs and tobacco, juice

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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: Albania. Types.
On caption card: (11659)
Used in: Mag. Bur. Jan. 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 11

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