Puzzle: Find the Americans. This picture shows how Americans look in Albanian dress, and how an Albanian looks in an American Army uniform. The chap with the captain's insignia and American military tunic is Hassan Debra, an Albanian Boy. The woman is Miss Helen Emily LeBerga, and American Red Cross nurse of Bakersfield, Cal. Doing relief work among the native children. She is dressed in a native costume which has been an heirloom in the Bey's family for years. Seated is Captain Russel C. Thistle of New Brunswick, N.J., attached to the Red Cross Albanian mission. He is wearing the georgeous encrusted tunic of an Albanian nobleman
Summary
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office.
Data: Atlantic Division, March 22, 1920.
Group title: Personnel, Albania.
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 22
Tags
Date
01/01/1920
Location
albania
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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