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Turks Who Worship American "Angel". Miss Margaret N. Robins, American Red Cross nurse of Philadelphia. In the Turkish quarter of a Montenegrin town where she visits the homes of a hundred sick people daily. She is carrying a bouquet that has just been presented to her by the parents of a Turkish child who was saved by her nursing. The Turks are sincerely grateful for American aid and refuse to accept a favor without doing something in return. Miss Robins is the best known personage in "Turkey Town" and is welcomed in all the homes with the respect and adoration of a patron saint

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Turks Who Worship American "Angel". Miss Margaret N. Robins, American Red Cross nurse of Philadelphia. In the Turkish quarter of a Montenegrin town where she visits the homes of a hundred sick people daily. She is carrying a bouquet that has just been presented to her by the parents of a Turkish child who was saved by her nursing. The Turks are sincerely grateful for American aid and refuse to accept a favor without doing something in return. Miss Robins is the best known personage in "Turkey Town" and is welcomed in all the homes with the respect and adoration of a patron saint

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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: Paris Office.
Group title: Personnel, Montenegro.
On caption card: (12/1237)
Used in: Penn and Del. Div. March 5, 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 12

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01/01/1920
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montenegro
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No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "American National Red Cross photograph collection," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/717_anrc.html

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