From Generation to Generation. These homes in the mountains of Montenegro are handed down. Built of stone hewn from the rocky slopes on which they were built, these houses last for an age. It is typical front yard and mountain home. It has only one window and no chimney although the fire is built on an open hearth inside. It is this kind of architecture that accounts for many of the eye troubles and lung diseases among these primitive people. In its relief work among these people the American Red Cross doctors and nurses are attempting to introduce new sanitary methods
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: (1/1516)
Used in: Ex. Magazine Bureau indef., Dr. Green, 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
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