![Lemonade and water peddlers in Constantinople do a thriving business Pure water is hard to obtain and few people care to risk the hydrand [i.e. hydrant] water which is filled with all sorts of disease germs.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDYvbGVtb25hZGUtYW5kLXdhdGVyLXBlZGRsZXJzLWluLWNvbnN0YW50aW5vcGxlLWRvLWEtdGhyaXZpbmctYnVzaW5lc3MtcHVyZS13YXRlci00MzU1MTktMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/320/254/jpg "Lemonade and water peddlers in Constantinople do a thriving business Pure water is hard to obtain and few people care to risk the hydrand [i.e. hydrant] water which is filled with all sorts of disease germs.")
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![Water five cents a glass ... normal water supply of Constantinople is impure and water from deep cisterns is sold at five cents a glass. All except the very poor are glad to pay that for army life has taught them that typhoid and other diseases areise [sic] from drinking impure water ... picture shows Major James A. Mills of New York filling his glass from the pail of water peddler in the Stamboul quarter of Constantinople.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMDIvd2F0ZXItZml2ZS1jZW50cy1hLWdsYXNzLW5vcm1hbC13YXRlci1zdXBwbHktb2YtY29uc3RhbnRpbm9wbGUtaXMtaW1wdXJlLWFuZC1lOTk2YmQtNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/31/webp "Water five cents a glass ... normal water supply of Constantinople is impure and water from deep cisterns is sold at five cents a glass. All except the very poor are glad to pay that for army life has taught them that typhoid and other diseases areise [sic] from drinking impure water ... picture shows Major James A. Mills of New York filling his glass from the pail of water peddler in the Stamboul quarter of Constantinople.")
Lemonade and water peddlers in Constantinople do a thriving business Pure water is hard to obtain and few people care to risk the hydrand [i.e. hydrant] water which is filled with all sorts of disease germs.
Summary
Filed in: Turkey Supplies & warehouses.
No. RC-3141.
On mount: Turkey - Supplies.
Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.
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Date
01/01/1920
Location
Silahtarağa (Istanbul, Turkey), 41.06667, 28.93333
Source
Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on publication.
