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What Turks can do with flour sacks. Take an ordinary sack, cut two holes in the bottom and you have the skirt that these young girls are wearing. They are Toumanian but from a section of the country that was under Turkish domination so long that the Oriental influence still remains in the costumes of the people. The girl on the extreme right has a skirt made from a flour sack, while the others are clothed in scraps of garments gathered anywhere. The group illustrates the extreme shortage of clothing that exists throughout the Near East where the American Red Cross has been operating for more than a year, distributing tons of used American garments, food and medicine
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: T.T. & C.
Group title: Children, Roumania.
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
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Date
01/01/1920
Location
romania
Source
Library of Congress
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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
