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Cheerful Balkan Burden-Bearer. The women of the Balkans, unlike their more progressive sisters in America, are satisfied to be the burden bearers of the city and town and countryside, preferring to let their men follow their immemorial vocation of going to battle and guarding home and country. The aged but sturdy housewife in the picture was snapped at the American Red Cross dispensary in Sarajevo, Bosnia, where she had come to apply for milk for her little grandchild
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: Dispensary, Bosnia.
On caption card: 1/1496.
Used in: Atlantic & T.T. & C. 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
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Date
01/01/1920
Location
bosnia
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "American National Red Cross photograph collection," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/717_anrc.html
