On the "Streets of Cairo"-at the American Red Cross playground at Elbasan, Albania. From two tree stumps and a few sticks of wood was this wonderful ferris wheel constructed under the direction of American Red Cross Workers, for the entertainment of 500, who attended physical culture classes and studied useful arts and crafts. From left to right the Americans in the picture are Major James A. Mills of New York City, Miss Eleanor Wilson, of New York City and Miss Arah Crasley of Cape Charles, Virginia

A home made Ferris Wheel. Erected on the American Red Cross playground at Elbasan. The picture shows American Nurses who took a trip to prove its safety to the children. The children in Albania never knew how to play or work either until the Red Cross came. Here at Elbasan 500 youngsters are playing American games and learning useful trades under Red Cross direction. The nurses are Miss Sara W. Crossley of Cape Charles Virginia and Miss Eleano Wilson of New York City

"American Street" Pirot? Serbia. Pirot is a grateful Serbian municipality. This town named one of its most important thoroughfares, American street, in recognition of the aid it received from the American Red Cross. In the picture are Lieut. Clinton J. Baker, a Red Cross worker of Boston, and three of his Serbian aides. The little girl holding the goat is the daughter of the mayor of the town

American 'girl' on the job in Albania. In the course of a day Miss Agnes Drummond of Alton, Ill., (at the desk) member of the American Red Cross in charge of relief distribution in Scutari, Albania, considers the needs of scores of destitute and poverty stricken natives, many of them once prosperous or at least far from beggary. The picture shows a corner of one of the warehouses rooms and the shelves of American clothing contributed to the ragged, almost naked people by Red Cross Chapters in the United States. The mother and child have been aided

American playground for Poland. Some of the American girls who opened a Junior Red Cross playground in Czestechowa, a 1000-year old Polish city south of Warsaw, the capital. It is a feature of the school for industrial training equipped by the Junior Red Cross. From left to right: Miss Clara T. Deckum of Springfield, Ill.; Miss Emma Nell Beale of Nutley, N.J.; Miss Constance Votey of Burlington, Vt.; and Miss Evelyn Davis of Columbus, Ohio

Walled in by nature. A view of the city of Elbasan in Albania. It is situated on one of the rockiest and most barren parts of Albania and its only lines of communication with the outside world are mountain trails. The American Red Cross had to bring its supplies in by pack mules and ox carts. The town is almost a law unto itself, rarely having any visitors from the outside world. The people were hit hard by the War and are especially appreciative of the aid that came from America

The Street Life of Scutari. A typical scene in the streets of old Scutari in Albania. The buildings are irregular, lop sided affairs. Cattle, pigs and barnyard fowl mix indiscriminately with the people, whose dress was strongly Oriental. But now an Occidental note is creeping into it, due to the country's complete dependence for its first clothes in five years upon America. For the first year the American Red Cross has been distributing used garments among the ragged and wretched of the country

On the "Streets of Cairo"-at the American Red Cross playground at Elbasan, Albania. From two tree stumps and a few sticks of wood was this wonderful ferris wheel constructed under the direction of American Red Cross Workers, for the entertainment of 500, who attended physical culture classes and studied useful arts and crafts. From left to right the Americans in the picture are Major James A. Mills of New York City, Miss Eleanor Wilson, of New York City and Miss Arah Crasley of Cape Charles, Virginia

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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: (11772)
Used in: Atlantic and Potomac. 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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01/01/1920

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Albania

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