Insisted on Paying Doctor's Bill. They walked twenty miles, from their home in the Albanian mountains, to get to the Junior Red Cross dispensary at the town of Tirana. They are sisters and the girl at the left was suffering from an infection that would have brought blindness to both eyes if permitted to go untreated. With them they brought two live chickens and six eggs for the doctor. When told there was "no charge" the sisters refused to consider the idea and insisted on leaving the poultry
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 Albania.
On caption card: (1/2174)
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
albania
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