On the dock where the record Red Cross cargo was piled into waiting trains, Vladivostok. Siberia gets $2,500,000. Relief Cargo. Acres of Vladivostok dock space were covered by the record-breaking cargo of American Red Cross relief supplies unloaded by the Shipping Board steamer Osaqumsick. This material, the largest consignment that has been sent to alleviate distress in Siberia, consisted of 17,500 cases valued at $2,500,000. The contents ranged from needles for sewing refugee garments to boilers for disinfecting machinery used in the fight against typhus
Summary
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Siberian Com.
Group title: Supplies, Siberia.
Used in: All Divs. Mar. 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 13
Tags
Date
01/01/1920
Location
siberia
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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