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No Need of "Dry" Campaign Here. The national beverage of Albania and all other Balkan countries where the influence of the Turk has been predominant for many years is coffee. Little wine or liquor is used. So strongly has the taste for coffee been developed that it is hawked on the streets. This shows one of the typical coffee vendors in Tirana, announcing his coming by scraping a tuning fork along the walls he dispenses a thick fragrant liquor for one cent a cup. But all business is so bad in the Balkans today that even these popular merchants have been forced to appeal for aid to the American Red Cross. This particular "coffee man" is wearing trousers made from pajamas presented him by the Red Cross
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: Supplies, Albania.
On caption card: (12/1145)
Used in: T.T. & C. 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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Date
01/01/1920
Location
albania
Source
Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "American National Red Cross photograph collection," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/717_anrc.html
