When it Rains in Albania. This picture shows the difficulties of transporting even a light load in Albania. Fierce torrents pour down from the mountains in rainy weather, making a thick clay mud that required all the strength of a team of water buffalo to pull, against it. It took teams equally strong to pull an American Red Cross automobile out of the mire where this picture was taken. At the beginning of winter the Red Cross found that oxen and water buffaloes were the only sure means of transportation in "rushing" supplies to the suffering mountain population. To American relief workers in the Balkan countries there is a vase chasm of time dividing modern transportation facilities and those of this picture. The native walking at the side of the cart is goading with a long pole to the buffaloes mired knee deep in mud
Summary
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: Transportation, Albania.
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
Tags
Date
01/01/1920
Location
albania
Source
Library of Congress
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