Typical scene in the village of Suchodoly in Eastern Galicia. Most of the dwellings were destroyed during the Austro-Russian campaigns. All these people live in the underground shelter covered with logs and straw before the entrance of which they are standing. Such over crowding creates a condition favorable to the spread of typhus and other infectious diseases. The building in the background shows that reconstruction had begun
Summary
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Capt. Marshall.
Group title: Poland (Ruins)
On caption card: (52)
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
01/01/1919
Location
Poland
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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