The "Liberty Tree" in Independence Square. A service of thanksgiving in honor of the American Red Cross under the Liberty Tree in Tirana. Thousands of Mohammedans participated as a token of their appreciation for the establishment of the new American Red Cross hospital. The tree (center foreground) is riddled with bullets, having been a place of execution for hundreds of Albanians who have defied Turkish, Bulgarian, and Austrian efforts to subjugate the people
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: Albania, General.
On caption card: (11769)
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
Tags
Date
01/01/1920
Location
Albania
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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