The old folks at home. This is the type of people that stand for all that is best in Roumanian life. They are peasants of a great rolling grain country and have worked on the soil since childhood. It is this type of Balkans people to whom the American Red Cross aid was extended

The least of her burdens. This old Roumanian peasant woman has a load of fifty pounds of fire, wood on her back but it's not the only weight she carries. There is the loss of her husband and sons due to the War. She is the type of people that the American Red Cross is attempting to give a helping hand in its relief work in the Balkan country

The future of a nation is bound up in the Transylvanian country pictured here. It was awarded to Roumania by the Peace conference and is one of the richest Agricultural land in Europe. This shows the old valley through which the American Red Cross made a thorough inspection of old Roumania that the Red Cross reached its destination to reduce relief efforts in the country to child welfare and medical aid

Starved refugees from Serbia who look to the Red Cross to assist them

Volunteer Workers in Roumania. A group of Roumanian peasants who volunteered their services to the American Red Cross at Bucharest in making garments for the poor in the devastated areas. One of the most admirable traits of these simple couuntry folk is a disposition to help their less fortunate sisters in the devastated countryside. The only return they sought was a little kerosene oil, so that they could work nights, and this the Red Cross was able to furnish them without difficulty

Where Roumania is strong. It is the peasant women and men in which Roumania places her high hopes, for a regenerated nationalism. This is a type of the Transylvanian peasant woman. For five years she has taken a man's place in the field, workshop and factories. And her child does not show any neglect at that. American Red Cross workers in this district say that with a continuance of medical relief Roumania will soon regain her feet

Throughout the Balkans many towns are enclosed by walls built by conquerors of old. Snuggled up against them will be found shacks of the poor. This one is typical. Its patch paper rood is held down by stones and junk. During the war, these people suffered greatly. The old woman pictured here has just received a visit from the American Red Cross and is holding in her lap some clothes "a gift of the American people"

The old folks at home. This is the type of people that stand for all that is best in Roumanian life. They are peasants of a great rolling grain country and have worked on the soil since childhood. It is this type of Balkans people to whom the American Red Cross aid was extended

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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: Roumania.
On caption card: (11593)
Used in: Junior Red Cross. Dec. 1919.
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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