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[Studio portrait of models wearing traditional clothing from the province of Skodra (Işkodra), Ottoman Empire]

[Studio portrait of models wearing traditional clothing from the provi...

(1) Muslim teacher (hoca) of Skodra (Shkodër); and (2) Christian priest of Skodra (Shkodër). French caption: Skodra: Figure 1: Hodja de Skodra; and Figure 2: Prêtre Chrétien de Skodra. Caption also in Ottoman ... More

The Jacob's Ladder of Montenegro. Leading from the city of Cattaro to Cettinje is the great stone highway that winds its way up the mountain side making 27 turns before reaching the summit overlooking the bay. The distance direct is a mile, but by the road it is ten. It is over this highway that the American Red Cross hauls all its supplies from its bases at Teodo and Cattaro for interior points of Montenegro and Albania. The route is very dangerous at many points as the rustling hulks of trucks and cars at the bottom of the cliffs will testify

The Jacob's Ladder of Montenegro. Leading from the city of Cattaro to ...

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: Montenegro. Used in: Sat. Evening Post. Gift; American... More

Wouldst Buy a Fine Saddle? Here is the saddle makers' market in Scutari, Albania. You might just call it the "Transportation Exchange" of this city, which is commercially the center of Northern Albania. The buildings in the background are the Khans or inns, and besides them heaps of pack saddles. Horses, mules and donkeys, saddled ready for riding or for packing, stand in groups ready to return homeward after the bazaar. Albania has no roads of any general usefulness, so the pack animal does most of the transportation work. Here is seen the key to one of the chief difficulties which the American Red Cross has encountered in its relief work in the Balkans since the armistice. The roads are no good for motor transport, and the energetic American must conform himself to the lazy mule transport in his attempt to reach the suffering villages. There are few good ponies nowadays on account of the war; the mules are better but small, and the donkeys are like all of their kind the work over. Some of the American Red Cross "packtrains" in Albania have consisted of nearly fifty animals, and the sum total of their effort is about equal to one small motor camion. The saddles are not unlike the familiar American sawbuck, but more complicated. Their manufacture is really quite smart, so coventionalized that you can scarcely tell one from the other. The pattern is in fact the same from Albania to India

Wouldst Buy a Fine Saddle? Here is the saddle makers' market in Scutar...

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: Gen. Albania markets. On caption card: (12949) Used in... More

Albanian woman goes shopping. What the markets and bazaars of Albania lack in quality and quantity they endeavor to make up for in riotous, gaudy color effects that keep them from sinking into unnoticeable insignificance. The shawls, umbrellas, small household utensils and 'gimcracks', even the people themselves present a variety of crude and bizarre colors that at least cheer the aspect of this lean, hungry land of war devastation and misery. This Albanian woman is wearing a suit of American Red Cross pajamas underneath her scent native costume. American clothing is frequently mingled nowadays with that characteristic of the country for in its relief work there the Red Cross found the people almost destitute of wearing apparel and resorting to rags tied on with strings. They were not only miserable and even grotesque in appearance but of far greater importance were responsible for widespread disease that required intensive fighting

Albanian woman goes shopping. What the markets and bazaars of Albania ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Data: Excl. to Keystone View Co. until Sept. 26, 1920. Group title:... More

At a junior baby clinic in Albania. Mrs. Phoebe C. Steet, of Baltimore, MD., head of the Junior Red Cross of America child clinic in Elbasan, Albania, is about to treat one of the native gypsy children. He arrived at the clinic powdered and smeared with burned horn according to the custom of his people but will be seen bathed, powdered with talcum and put into fresh, clean clothing that American children have ready at all their clinics and orphanages for the helpless and naked who so frequently come swathed in filthy rags like this little fellow

At a junior baby clinic in Albania. Mrs. Phoebe C. Steet, of Baltimore...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Data: Potomac Div. Group title: Personnel. Albania. Gift; American ... More

Albanians travel far for American help. Carrying their sick children on their backs this Albanian mother and father walked for three days all the way from their mountain hut in Liabinoi to the Junior Red Cross of America hospital clinic in Elbasan medical treatment and clean clothing from America were given them before they started on their weary journey back. At the clinic particular stress is laid on instruction to all mothers regarding hygiene and simple health rules for their anemic delicate children

Albanians travel far for American help. Carrying their sick children o...

Caption from negative sleeve: "Walked two days for ARC clothes." Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Da... More

First pupils at the Tirana Vocational Training School, Tirana, Albania. The vocational training school established in Tirana by the Juniors in cooperation with the Albanian government is teaching, for the first time in Albania, the use of modern tools and equipment. Albania has no railroads, no factories and no good roads and the advent of this school will do much for the country. Fifty boys are trained here

First pupils at the Tirana Vocational Training School, Tirana, Albania...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Jr. RC Data: Mr. Scull, Sept. 1921. 1 in RC bul. Classification: Children. Gift; ... More

A mountain bride from the tribe of Hoti, northern Albania. The clothes are of heavy woolen cloth spun and woven by hand and richly embroidered with colored worsteds and gold and silver thread. The jewelry is mostly silver filigree work, a craft in which the Albanians are especially proficient. The large silver cross is a mark of the Catholic tribes all over the north. Her heavy leather belt studded thickly with lead pin, lead nails, each molded and inserted by hand, is the work of special craftsmen in Scutari. She wears the mountain slippers of goat hide called "opanga". Most of the tribal lands of Hoti were given to Serbia by Turkey in 1912 but the people remain Albanian in language and customs

A mountain bride from the tribe of Hoti, northern Albania. The clothes...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Jr. Red Cross. Data: Jr. Red Cross. Classification: Types. Gift; American Nationa... More

Main Street, Tirana - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Main Street, Tirana - Frank G. Carpenter collection

People selling tinware, such as funnels, pots, etc., on street, Tirana, Albania. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection.

American Legation at Tirana, Albania

American Legation at Tirana, Albania

Public domain photograph of house, residence, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Albania : a country study / - Albania

Albania : a country study / - Albania

"Research completed April 1992." Supersedes the 1970 ed. of Area handbook for Albania, coauthored by Eugene K. Keefe [et al.]. Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index. Also available in digital form.

Always Wash Behind the Ears. That is the warning the native woman with the pitcher gives these Albanian war orphans who are attending the American Red Cross school at Tirana. This is the morning class in personal hygiene. The camera caught them at tooth brush drill. This is a great innovation, these children and most of their parents never had heard of a tooth brush before the Red Cross came. They have to brush their teeth and wash before they can get into school. They also have to wash their own wash bowls after they get through washing so that the next fellow can wash in a clean wash bowl

Always Wash Behind the Ears. That is the warning the native woman with...

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: Children-Albania. On caption card: (1/1718) Used i... More

Where Women Wear the Pants. Native women of Montenegro wearing the Baggy Turkish trousers so common in the Balkans. Although they have on a semi Moslem costume, these women are christians which accounts for the lack of a veil. Both the women of old Turkey, and those of Albania, Montenegro, and Bosnia, formerly dominated by the ussulmen sic, are partial to black satin pantaloons, according to American Red Cross workers who are distributing relief among the needy throughout the Near East

Where Women Wear the Pants. Native women of Montenegro wearing the Bag...

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: Types, Montenegro. On caption card: 12848. Gift; ... More

Albanian nurses trained by Americans. Head nurse, Miss Lucy Joachim (at right of picture) of New York City, and Miss Agnes Eubank, American Red Cross nurse to the Balkans from South Charleston, West Virginia, and four native Albanian nurses who are under their instruction in the Tirana, Albania hospital. Red Cross hospitals throughout the Balkan countries are tending to stimlate the medical and nursing professions. As in many other countries of Europe, where hospital relief work has been carried on extensively, the scientific surgical and general nurses of America have become the models for foreign women who see the possibilities of raising this profession in their countries to the American standard

Albanian nurses trained by Americans. Head nurse, Miss Lucy Joachim (a...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Data: Atlantic Div. Group title: Personnel. Hospital. Albania. Gift... More

The most popular man in Albania. Lieut. Col. William Warfield, of Baltimore, MD., director of the American Red Cross unit to Albania. Under his charge are such varied activities as hospitals, public nursing, playgrounds, dispensaries and schools. He is known in the most remote mountain villages and many Albanian feuds have been discontinued at his request in order that the Americans under him could carry on their relief work in safety

The most popular man in Albania. Lieut. Col. William Warfield, of Balt...

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: Personnel W. Used in: T.T. & C. Potomac Jan. 1920.... More

By Permission of Allah. Dr. Marie J. Hyndman, of Philadelphia, at work on an Albanian's teeth in the American Red Cross hospital at Tirana. American doctors attempting to stem the rising tide of disease in Albania found that most all the people had never had any dental attention and that much ill health originated from the condition of their molars. But before the Mohammedan population of the country would consent to have their teeth tinkered with, Dr. Hyndman had to have the local priest issue a statement that dental work would give no offense to Allah

By Permission of Allah. Dr. Marie J. Hyndman, of Philadelphia, at work...

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: Hospital, Albania. On caption card: (12/1276) Used... More

[Albanian man in long-haired cape looking in dismay at ruins of his home, caused by an earthquake in Tepelena, Albania--Another man is sorting stones to repair the damage]

[Albanian man in long-haired cape looking in dismay at ruins of his ho...

Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).

Rushing aid to Albanians: Trusty bullock carts are the sole means of "rushing" aid to pestilence spots in the Albanian mountains, A.R.C. workers have found. Scores of little villages are reached by roadways that no motor truck should negotiate. Slow, patient, and wonderfully strong, these huge water buffalo pull the entire load of a heavy cart by means of a yoke which throws all the weight on their necks. The driver guides them with a short stick and a picturesque vocabulary

Rushing aid to Albanians: Trusty bullock carts are the sole means of "...

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: Transportation, Albania. On caption card: (1/2146)... More

No Need of "Dry" Campaign Here. The national beverage of Albania and all other Balkan countries where the influence of the Turk has been predominant for many years is coffee. Little wine or liquor is used. So strongly has the taste for coffee been developed that it is hawked on the streets. This shows one of the typical coffee vendors in Tirana, announcing his coming by scraping a tuning fork along the walls he dispenses a thick fragrant liquor for one cent a cup. But all business is so bad in the Balkans today that even these popular merchants have been forced to appeal for aid to the American Red Cross. This particular "coffee man" is wearing trousers made from pajamas presented him by the Red Cross

No Need of "Dry" Campaign Here. The national beverage of Albania and a...

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: Supplies, Albania. On caption card: (12/1145) Used... More

American Legation at Tirana, Albania; panorama of Legation at Tirana, front-view

American Legation at Tirana, Albania; panorama of Legation at Tirana, ...

Public domain photograph related to American politics and World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Prince and Princess of Albania - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Prince and Princess of Albania - Public domain photograph, glass negat...

Photo shows Prince William of Wied, Prince of Albania (Wilhelm Friedrich Heinrich) (1876-1945) who reigned briefly as sovereign of Albania from March 1914 to September 1914 with his wife Princess Sophie Helene ... More

Durazzo - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Durazzo - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows ruins in Durazzo (Durrës), Albania, probably during World War I.

A youthful linguistic protege. This Albanian boy, a type of the better class speaks five different languages. He is employed by the American Red Cross relief workers as an interpreter and messenger. The boy never went to school, but was taught by his father, the prefet of Tirana, who was graduated from the American College at Constantinople

A youthful linguistic protege. This Albanian boy, a type of the better...

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: Children-Albania. On caption card: 11652. Used in:... More

Teo sic mountain children, Thethi, Albania. They are among the members of the little school that is being started in this far away inacessible village. They are wearing the clothing that all Shala children wear, but one finds few dresses so fresh and new. They are dresses made of heavy white and black wook, more like felt than cloth, all the seams joined with vlack sic hand made braid. Underclothes save for a possible shemise are not considered necessary

Teo sic mountain children, Thethi, Albania. They are among the members...

Caption from negative sleeve: Albania. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Jr. Red Cross. Data: JR. Red Cross. Classi... More

Religious procession of the Roman Catholic Church, Scutari, Albania. Every religious festival is the occasion of picturesque processions and religious holidays are a frequent interruption of the daily routine and this is a city whose population is over one half Moslem distinguishes Albania as unique among the Balkans in religious tolerance

Religious procession of the Roman Catholic Church, Scutari, Albania. E...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Jr. Red Cross. Data: Jr. Red Cross. Classification: General. Gift; American Natio... More

School children at Thethi. Shela [i.e. Shala], Northern Albania

School children at Thethi. Shela [i.e. Shala], Northern Albania

Photograph showing group portrait of Albanian children with their Franciscan friar teacher. RC-9357.

Albania : a country study / - Albania

Albania : a country study / - Albania

"Research completed April 1992." Supersedes the 1970 ed. of Area handbook for Albania, coauthored by Eugene K. Keefe [et al.]. Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index. Also available in digital form.

Albania : a country study / - Albania

Albania : a country study / - Albania

"Research completed April 1992." Supersedes the 1970 ed. of Area handbook for Albania, coauthored by Eugene K. Keefe [et al.]. Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index. Also available in digital form.

Prince of Albania - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Prince of Albania - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows Prince William of Wied, Prince of Albania (Wilhelm Friedrich Heinrich) (1876-1945) who reigned briefly as sovereign of Albania from March 1914 to September 1914. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)

Albania. A band of American Albanians who are aiding their country

Albania. A band of American Albanians who are aiding their country

Title and note from Red Cross caption card. Ex. Jr. R.C. Indef. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the American National Re... More

Class in American Physical Culture. A group of Albanian youngsters being instructed in calisthenics on the American Red Cross playground at Elbasan, Albania, by Miss Minnie S. Darst of Boston (center). The Red Cross took 500 children this town under its wing, teaching them how to play, develop physically, and several useful industrial trades. It was the first interest any grown up had ever taken in their welfare and the playground had a full attendance from 9 in the morning until 6 at night

Class in American Physical Culture. A group of Albanian youngsters bei...

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: Albania. (Children) On caption card: (11656) Used... More

The "Liberty Tree" in Independence Square. A service of thanksgiving in honor of the American Red Cross under the Liberty Tree in Tirana. Thousands of Mohammedans participated as a token of their appreciation for the establishment of the new American Red Cross hospital. The tree (center foreground) is riddled with bullets, having been a place of execution for hundreds of Albanians who have defied Turkish, Bulgarian, and Austrian efforts to subjugate the people

The "Liberty Tree" in Independence Square. A service of thanksgiving i...

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: Albania, General. On caption card: (11769) Gift; A... More

No Fire Laddies Need Apply. Tirana, Albania, is almost fireproof. The roofing used throughout the town is an excellent variety of tiling that is popular throughout the Balkans. This photo shows the main throughfare of Tirana, with a Moslem mosque in the background. In the field at the left, is a tented aviation station of the Italian army of occupation. Tirana shows a clean exterior, but not until the American Red Cross mission came were the filthy, disease breeding, interiors of houses cleaned out in order to make Tirana typhus proof

No Fire Laddies Need Apply. Tirana, Albania, is almost fireproof. The ...

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: General, Albania. On caption card: (1/2144) Used i... More

Albania : a country study / - Albania

Albania : a country study / - Albania

"Research completed April 1992." Supersedes the 1970 ed. of Area handbook for Albania, coauthored by Eugene K. Keefe [et al.]. Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index. Also available in digital form.

The battleship "HAMIDEH" bombarding the Greek and the Serbian transports opposite the coast of Albania, [with insert of the hero Ra-Uf Bey]

The battleship "HAMIDEH" bombarding the Greek and the Serbian transpor...

Color lithograph by A.H. Zaki, copyrighted by the Cairo Punch. No. 41. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Everything destroyed and burnt. Men only remained = Tout était déruit et incendié. Les hommes seuls restaient

Everything destroyed and burnt. Men only remained = Tout était déruit ...

Photograph shows men and horses marching along a snowy road, probably in Albania. In album: Commet les Serbes abandonnèrent leur patrie, vu par Sampson Tchernoff.

Walled in by nature. A view of the city of Elbasan in Albania. It is situated on one of the rockiest and most barren parts of Albania and its only lines of communication with the outside world are mountain trails. The American Red Cross had to bring its supplies in by pack mules and ox carts. The town is almost a law unto itself, rarely having any visitors from the outside world. The people were hit hard by the War and are especially appreciative of the aid that came from America

Walled in by nature. A view of the city of Elbasan in Albania. It is s...

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: Albania. On caption card: (11647) Gift; American ... More

Just a friendly gathering in Albania. From the stacked rifles one might get the impression that this was an armed camp. But its an American Red Cross distribution of old clothing in Albania. These Albania mountaineer tribesmen seem to have an unusual feeling of protection under the stars and stripes. At all other times their guns are carried in a "ready" position. The Albanian tribesmen have their own laws and their own methods of dispensing justice. The rifle play a big part in the latter activity. The Red Cross has given hundreds of tons of clothing, medical supplies and other materials to these destitute mountain people

Just a friendly gathering in Albania. From the stacked rifles one migh...

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: Supplies, Albania. On caption card: (12/1076) Used... More

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

When it Rains in Albania. This picture shows the difficulties of trans...

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 C... More

The Street Life of Scutari. A typical scene in the streets of old Scutari in Albania. The buildings are irregular, lop sided affairs. Cattle, pigs and barnyard fowl mix indiscriminately with the people, whose dress was strongly Oriental. But now an Occidental note is creeping into it, due to the country's complete dependence for its first clothes in five years upon America. For the first year the American Red Cross has been distributing used garments among the ragged and wretched of the country

The Street Life of Scutari. A typical scene in the streets of old Scut...

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: General, Albania. On caption card: 1/1736. Used in... More

Pinning on the Donkey's Tail. Albanian war orphans spend an exciting afternoon at the American Red Cross playground in Tirana "pinning the tail on the donkey". A white sheet with a donkey sketched upon it is tacked to the wall of a ruined house, a child is blind-folded and then attempts to put the tail in its proper place on the donkey. The one who comes nearest is given a prize of a new dress, a skein of wool or some useful article. Note the intense interest with which each child is watching the operation. To the right can be seen Miss E.P. Cobley, New Orleans, in charge of the Tirana playground

Pinning on the Donkey's Tail. Albanian war orphans spend an exciting a...

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: Children, Albania. On caption card: (12/1192) Used... More

Albania : a country study / - Albania

Albania : a country study / - Albania

"Research completed April 1992." Supersedes the 1970 ed. of Area handbook for Albania, coauthored by Eugene K. Keefe [et al.]. Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index. Also available in digital form.

Albania : a country study / - Albania

Albania : a country study / - Albania

"Research completed April 1992." Supersedes the 1970 ed. of Area handbook for Albania, coauthored by Eugene K. Keefe [et al.]. Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index. Also available in digital form.

Albanian frontiers. Historic map, Library of Congress

Albanian frontiers. Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown by contours and gradient tints. In right lower margin of the original: Prepared by Admiralty War Staff, I.D. Drawn and printed at the Ordnance Survey, 1916. Annotated in col. inks to show proposed ... More

They do it in Albania too. An Albanian peasant woman on her way home after a day's marketing. She bartered two pounds of corn for the rooster and then called at the American Red Cross station for a ration of lard in which to cook it. She is a type of Mountain women who smoke as freely and enthusiastically as the men and suffer no criticism for it

They do it in Albania too. An Albanian peasant woman on her way home a...

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: Albania. Types. On caption card: (11653) Used in:... More

A New lease on life. Rescued from the streets of Elbasan, Albania, by an American relief worker, twelve year old Marria, whose mother had become demented from hardship and struggle, is now a faithful worker in the Junior Red Cross of America war orphanage. One of her feet is hopelessly deformed and the fingers of her left hand gone but Marria considers these things no handicap in life now that she knows friendly sympathy and the joys of being clothed and fed

A New lease on life. Rescued from the streets of Elbasan, Albania, by ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Data: Junior Red Cross. Group title: Children. Albania. Gift; Ameri... More

The American Red Cross sewing room at Tirana, Albania, where Mohammedan women have broken the religious custom of centuries and left the seclusion of their homes to cooperate with their Christian sisters in American relief work. Here they learned to operate sewing machines and were paid for the garments they made which were in turn distrubuted free by the Red Cross to the needy. Note that the Mohammedan women attempt to hide their faces from the photographer. They had violated one precedent by removing their veils while at work

The American Red Cross sewing room at Tirana, Albania, where Mohammeda...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: A.R.C. Paris Office. Group title: Workrooms, Albania. On caption card: (11648) Us... More

Ballyhoo men need not apply. For a job with this amusement enterprise. It needs no popularity puller as it gives free rides. It is part of the equipment of the American Red Cross playground at Elbasan, Albania where five hundred children are enjoying the happiest days of their lives. It was constructed under an American Nurse's direction with two tree stumps and several rough hewn poles. Four Albanian mountaineers supply the motive power, another (center) the musci, the children, the riders

Ballyhoo men need not apply. For a job with this amusement enterprise....

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: Children. Albania. On caption card: (11660) Used i... More

"Little Old Man" and His Nurse. Two wards of the American Red Cross at Elbasan, Albania. The little boy born during the enemy occupation of the country is a cripple and cannot enjoy the American playground with the other fellows, so this little girl sits beside him all afternoon and does her best to amuse him. They are two of the unfortunate victims of war that no amount of money can identify as they have no legitimate name. The Red Cross has taken all of these children in Elbasan under its wing, and is giving them an education as well as looking after their welfare

"Little Old Man" and His Nurse. Two wards of the American Red Cross at...

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: Children Albania. On caption card: (1/1506) Used i... More

Blacksmith, Scutari, Albania - Albania

Blacksmith, Scutari, Albania - Albania

Photograph showing Albanian man hammering metal on an anvil. RC-9467.

Scutari, Albania. Women in ordinary street costume of red and white cloth. The seams are joined with minute crochet and worked in red or color combinations. Under the skirt cloth which is tied like an apron around the waist are worn voluminous trousers on the Turkish style of black shinny sic cloth

Scutari, Albania. Women in ordinary street costume of red and white cl...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Jr. Red Cross. Data: JR. Red Cross. Classification: Types. Gift; American Nationa... More

The Gibralter of the Adriatic. Cattaro, the impregnable naval stronghold on the Adriatic, has been the center of Balkan and European dispute since the Dark Ages. Now it is the chief supply base for the A.R.C. work in Montenegro and Albania. Founded in the eleventh century, it has been under the domination of Serbs. Americans on the Dalmatian coast have been neutral in all political disputations. Here in Cattaro the first A.R.C. expedition to Montenegro was landed. Cattaro, gateway to Montenegro, nestling beneath a barrier of mountains that enclose town and gulf, is one of the most picturesque spots on the Dalmatian Coast. The photo is taken from the remarkable "Zig zag" road, which is seen climbing down the mountain side to the town below

The Gibralter of the Adriatic. Cattaro, the impregnable naval strongho...

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: General, Montenegro. On caption card: (1/1779) Used in... More

Boar Hunt Dancers in Albania. One of the ancient folk measures in Albania is boar hunt dance which looks very much like the game of ring-around-a-rosy. Sturdy Albanian tribesmen, girded with heavy cartridge belts and decorated with long keen knives, romp and play in this primitive step like a bunch of children. These dancers were guarding an American Red Cross relief convoy into the Albanian mountains and put on the boar hunt dance as an exhibition for the American workers directing the expedition

Boar Hunt Dancers in Albania. One of the ancient folk measures in Alba...

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: Recreation, Albania. On caption card: (1/2153) Use... More

Traffic Boats on Lake Scutari. A scene along the waterfront at Scutari, Albania. The ancient Venetians who once held the country, have left their stamp indelibly upon the boat building industry of the country. The boats that traffic up and down Lake Scutari have the same general outline as the gondolas that travel the canals of Venice. This particular group of vessels is the American Red Cross fleet, which is hired to distribute relief supplies to the destitute people in the lake region

Traffic Boats on Lake Scutari. A scene along the waterfront at Scutari...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Albania. Data: T.T. & C. March 23, 1920. Group title: Transportation, Albania Gif... More

King of Albania sitting to Alfred Schwarz

King of Albania sitting to Alfred Schwarz

Photo shows Prince William of Wied, Prince of Albania (Wilhelm Friedrich Heinrich) (1876-1945) who reigned briefly as sovereign of Albania from March 1914 to September 1914, sitting for a portrait painter. (Sou... More

Black sheep of the Balkans. This is the mascot of the American Red Cross Unit at Tirana, Albania, where a hospital dispensary and childrens school have been established. Black sheep are the most valuable livestock in the Balkans. Their wool is spun and woven into garments without dyeing, thereby eliminating an expensive process in the Balkans. This lamb was presented to Miss Margaret Mosely-Williams, the nurse in the picture by a grateful Albanian patient in the Red Cross hospital

Black sheep of the Balkans. This is the mascot of the American Red Cro...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Data: Int. News Service, Excl. to April 24, 1920. Ex. Kadel & Herbe... More

Albanians in their own land. Although Albanians are considered the world's greatest 'gun totors' they are not at heart so war like or the indeseriminate sic brigands that they are frequently reputed to be. Owing to its geographical location and the permission of the Turkish government, when in control of this Balkan state, to defend its own borders, the Albanian natives carried on a mildly intensive border warfare for many years, and always went armed. American Red Cross workers who have spent months in Albania, where since the war and its drain on all industried resources distress had become proverbial, declare that any foreigner there is treated with greatest respect and courtesy if he is under the 'Besse', or in other words there on good faith. Although women frequently carry guns it is generally known that the Albanian's regard for the sacredness of his women kind is such that any one accompanied by a woman may go wherever he chooses and be entirely uninterfered with

Albanians in their own land. Although Albanians are considered the wor...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Data: Excl. to Underwood & Underwood, until Sept. 26, 1920. Group t... More

[Studio portrait of models wearing traditional clothing from the province of Skodra (Işkodra), Ottoman Empire]

[Studio portrait of models wearing traditional clothing from the provi...

(1) Muslim of Skodra (Shkodër); and (2) Married Muslim woman of Skodra (Shkodër). French caption: Skodra: Figure 1: Musulman de Skodra; Figure 2: Dame Musulmane de Skodra. Caption also in Ottoman Turkish. Part... More

People of Durazzo - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

People of Durazzo - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows people in Durazzo (Durrës), Albania.

Prince of Wied (King of Albania) & family

Prince of Wied (King of Albania) & family

Photo shows Prince William of Wied, Prince of Albania (Wilhelm Friedrich Heinrich) (1876-1945) who reigned briefly as sovereign of Albania from March 1914 to September 1914 with his wife Princess Sophie Helene ... More

The youngest merchant - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

The youngest merchant - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Mr. Scull. Data: Mr. Scull, Oct. 1921. Classification: Children. Gift; American N... More

Albania : a country study / - Albania

Albania : a country study / - Albania

"Research completed April 1992." Supersedes the 1970 ed. of Area handbook for Albania, coauthored by Eugene K. Keefe [et al.]. Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index. Also available in digital form.

Studio portrait of models wearing traditional clothing from the province of Skodra (Isķodra), Ottoman Empire

Studio portrait of models wearing traditional clothing from the provin...

(1) Married Muslim woman of Skodra (Shkodër); (2) Married Christian woman of Skodra (Shkodër); and (3) peasant woman of Malissor. French caption: Skodra: Figure 1: Dame Musulmane de Skodra; Figure 2: Dame Chré... More

Headquarters of American Field Services Ambulance Section No. 10, at Visntza, Alabania

Headquarters of American Field Services Ambulance Section No. 10, at V...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: A.R.C. Group title: Albania. 23 August 1919 [date received] Used in: Ex. Stanford... More

Puzzle: Find the Americans. This picture shows how Americans look in Albanian dress, and how an Albanian looks in an American Army uniform. The chap with the captain's insignia and American military tunic is Hassan Debra, an Albanian Boy. The woman is Miss Helen Emily LeBerga, and American Red Cross nurse of Bakersfield, Cal. Doing relief work among the native children. She is dressed in a native costume which has been an heirloom in the Bey's family for years. Seated is Captain Russel C. Thistle of New Brunswick, N.J., attached to the Red Cross Albanian mission. He is wearing the georgeous encrusted tunic of an Albanian nobleman

Puzzle: Find the Americans. This picture shows how Americans look in A...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Data: Atlantic Division, March 22, 1920. Group title: Personnel, Al... More

The Street Life of Scutari. A typical scene in the streets of old Scutari in Albania. The buildings are irregular, lop sided affairs. Cattle, pigs and barnyard fowl mix indiscriminately with the people, whose dress was strongly Oriental. But now an Occidental note is creeping into it, due to the country's complete dependence for its first clothes in five years upon America. For the first year the American Red Cross has been distributing used garments among the ragged and wretched of the country

The Street Life of Scutari. A typical scene in the streets of old Scut...

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: General, Albania. On caption card: 1/1736. Used in... More

Swapping "Spuds" in Tirana. Trading and fighting are Albania's chief occupations. Here we have them indulging in the animated bargaining so dear to the heart of an Oriental people. If business gets dull, one potato merchant will trade his stock with another. A glimpse at the little merchandise stocks, spread on squares of cloth, reveals the secret of Albania's malnutrition. The country produces little grain or meat; the people must live mainly on vegetables. Into the heart of Albania American Red Cross missions hurried soon after the armistice. These Americans are still doing what they can to better the living conditions of the mountaineer families, where mothers had to be taught how to use soap on the children

Swapping "Spuds" in Tirana. Trading and fighting are Albania's chief o...

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: Markets, Albania. On caption card: (1/2104) Used i... More

A smile from Cinderella. A typical Christian Albanian girl who came to the American Red Cross station at Tirana seeking aid and remained to become a maid of all work because she "like the Americans". She had learned to speak quite a bit of English during the past seven months and acoompanies the Red Cross Nurses on their medical trips to the remote mountain villages to act as interpreter and general aide

A smile from Cinderella. A typical Christian Albanian girl who came to...

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: Types, Albania. On caption card: (11753) Used in: Red ... More

[Old man, seated on ground, full-length, smoking pipe, Tepelena, Albania]

[Old man, seated on ground, full-length, smoking pipe, Tepelena, Alban...

Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).

Ancient bridge remodelled for 20th. Century purposes. Ancient Turkish bridge in southern Albania that had to be reconstructed during the great war because the early Romans and Turks did not look ahead and visualize the 20th. Century with its motor transportation. It was used continuously by the Italians when they were massing thousands of troops at Valona and Kortiza. In order to accommodate sic motor trucks and heavy artillery they built it up as may seen in the picture and lessened the sharp ascent and descent. Although centuries od it withstood remodelling and the consequent strain put upon it. The American Red Cross camion at the top is on its way with relief supplies for the destitute war sufferers of Kortiza

Ancient bridge remodelled for 20th. Century purposes. Ancient Turkish ...

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. Red Cross bulletin. Group title: Transportation. Al... More

Victims of latest Balkan trouble. This picture shows a typical group of thousands of Albanian war victims who were interred in Montenegro during a recent Balkan squabble. The American officer is Lieut. Col. H.J. Fairclough, head of the American Red Cross Commission to Montenegro and former professor at Leland Stanford University in California. When these homeless, miserable women and children swarmed through the lines at the Serbian-Montenegro frontier they were filthy, vermin-ridden and frenzied with starvation and suffering. They were given a daily ration of American food and have since been returned to their own country by Red Cross workers co-operating with the Albanian refugee committee

Victims of latest Balkan trouble. This picture shows a typical group o...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Data: Pacific Division, March 22, 1920. Group title: Refugees, Alba... More

Roman costume of Scutari, Albania. Since Albania's independence of Turkey in 1912 the face veil has not bee sic worn. The cape is of brilliant red richly embroidered in silk and decorated at the shoulders with long silken tessels. The trousers are black bloomers. This is very common in Scutari streets

Roman costume of Scutari, Albania. Since Albania's independence of Tur...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Jr. Red Cross. Data: Jr. Red Cross. Classification: Types. Gift; American Nationa... More

American Legation at Tirana, Albania; rear-view, Minister's residence

American Legation at Tirana, Albania; rear-view, Minister's residence

Public domain photograph of large public building, square, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Albania, physiography. Historic map, Library of Congress

Albania, physiography. Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown by shading and spot heights. "803330AI (G01055) 12-08." Includes note and location map. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

DCM 0295: Anonymous Cyla-Diare (Double Vertical Whistle Flute)

DCM 0295: Anonymous Cyla-Diare (Double Vertical Whistle Flute)

Instrument type: Cyla-Diare (Double Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Wood.; 24.05 cm. Key Holes System: Right: 0/6 holes. Left: drone, terminating inside vent hole near bottom. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance... More

This is the junior class of champions at the Tirana School, Albania, that Miss Charlotte Watrous of New Haven, Conn. and Miss Beatrice L. Moore of Sandy Springs, Maryland, drill every morning. These boys have known so many years of war and deprivation that they have never learned to play. The first work for this Red Cross School is to give them the chance to be young

This is the junior class of champions at the Tirana School, Albania, t...

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: Albania (Children) Used in: Atlantic & Potomac Di... More

Capt. Harold V. Aupperle and French Officer

Capt. Harold V. Aupperle and French Officer

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: A.R.C. Group title: Albania. (Personnel) Used in: Ex. Stanford University, Oct. 8... More

Every morning these boys do exactly what thousands of American boys are doing at the same time across the Atlantic. This is the class in physical training at the Tirana American Red Cross School, under the direction of Miss Charlotte Watrous of New Haven, Conn. Their lives have been spent under the pressure of such hard times that they are often physically unfitted for a sturdy boy's life, they are underdeveloped and undernourished

Every morning these boys do exactly what thousands of American boys ar...

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: Albania (Children) Used in: Atlantic Division Oct... More

The plow used all over Albania - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

The plow used all over Albania - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

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: Albania. On caption card: (64) Used in: Tech, Tra... More

A Gentleman from Montenegro. Standing in a characteristic pose with his hand on the revolver in his girdle. He has just accompanied his wife (extreme left) into town with a cargo of fodder, carried on donkey back. Following the custom of the country, he will let his better half negotiate the sale while he adjourns to a nearby coffee house and discusses politics and the nest war with other "country gentlemen." American Red Cross doctors at work in the country found that the women suffered much from overwork, while the men suffered just as much from gunshot wounds obtained in family feuds and general quarrels that are arising continually as a result of political questions being settled with good powder and bullets, with an occasional kinfe thrown in

A Gentleman from Montenegro. Standing in a characteristic pose with hi...

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: Types, Albania. On caption card: (11698) Used in:... More

Human Hay Racks. It is nothing unusual in Albania to see women carrying such burdens as these. The men consider it undignified to do such manual labor, spending most of their time in the army, or in carrying out family feuds. The severe life of the women is shown in premature old age. The American Red Cross hospitals throughout the country are continually called upon to treat extreme cases of impoverishment and exhaustion due to heavy labor among women

Human Hay Racks. It is nothing unusual in Albania to see women carryin...

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: Albania General. On caption card: 11649. Used in: T.T.... More

American goods in the Apian Way. A scene along the ancient Apian way as it passes through Elbasan, Albania. The peak animals compose an American Red Cross convoy of food and medicines. It illustrates the transportation difficulties of the American relief organization in reaching the remote mountain districts of the Balkans, were greatly in need of aid

American goods in the Apian Way. A scene along the ancient Apian way a...

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: Supplies, Albania. On caption card: 11650. Used in: R.... More

Liberating Albania's Babies. Dr. Lulu H. Peters of Los Angeles, Cal. shown here in the uniform of an American Red Cross nurse, in the midst of a group of Albanian children, is responsible for the liberation of 1500 Albanian infants from the "binding" board. Dr. Peters runs the Red Cross dispensary at Scutari. Strongest persuasion was needed to convince Albanian mothers that binding a child, mummy fashion to a board, is both unsanitary and cruel. Like the Flathead Indians of the Old West in America, the Albanians for 2,000 years have flattened their children's heads by binding. When the children are bathed, they are clothed with Junior Red Cross garments. Here are a dozen so so that have been brought to Dr. Peters for inspection. Tow of her staple prescriptions are soap and condensed milk

Liberating Albania's Babies. Dr. Lulu H. Peters of Los Angeles, Cal. s...

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: Children-Albania. On caption card: (1/2131) Used i... More

The town orchestra at Tirana breaks out with a few native jazz tunes at the opening of the American Red Cross relief station in Tirana. They play at parties, concerts, weddings, funerals and christenings, their reportoire consists of five tunes. It's enough

The town orchestra at Tirana breaks out with a few native jazz tunes a...

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: Albania. On caption card: (12855) Used in: Tech. ... More

A home made Ferris Wheel. Erected on the American Red Cross playground at Elbasan. The picture shows American Nurses who took a trip to prove its safety to the children. The children in Albania never knew how to play or work either until the Red Cross came. Here at Elbasan 500 youngsters are playing American games and learning useful trades under Red Cross direction. The nurses are Miss Sara W. Crossley of Cape Charles Virginia and Miss Eleano Wilson of New York City

A home made Ferris Wheel. Erected on the American Red Cross playground...

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: Children. Albania. On caption card: (11651) Used i... More

Scutari, Albania. A Roman costume in black and red the national colors. At present this costume is worn mainly by the older men but less than 10 years ago it was universal

Scutari, Albania. A Roman costume in black and red the national colors...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Jr. Red Cross. Data: JR. Red Cross. Classification: Types. Gift; American Nationa... More

Durazzo, Albania, view from the American Red Cross dispensary

Durazzo, Albania, view from the American Red Cross dispensary

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Mr. Scull. Data: Mr. Scull. Classification: General. Gift; American National Red ... More

Albania's rights, hopes and aspirations;

Albania's rights, hopes and aspirations;

Also available in digital form.

Albania's rights, hopes and aspirations;

Albania's rights, hopes and aspirations;

Also available in digital form.

Albania's rights, hopes and aspirations;

Albania's rights, hopes and aspirations;

Also available in digital form.

Albania : a country study / - Albania

Albania : a country study / - Albania

"Research completed April 1992." Supersedes the 1970 ed. of Area handbook for Albania, coauthored by Eugene K. Keefe [et al.]. Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index. Also available in digital form.

Albania : a country study / - Albania

Albania : a country study / - Albania

"Research completed April 1992." Supersedes the 1970 ed. of Area handbook for Albania, coauthored by Eugene K. Keefe [et al.]. Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index. Also available in digital form.

Albania : a country study / - Albania

Albania : a country study / - Albania

"Research completed April 1992." Supersedes the 1970 ed. of Area handbook for Albania, coauthored by Eugene K. Keefe [et al.]. Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index. Also available in digital form.

Albania : a country study / - Albania

Albania : a country study / - Albania

"Research completed April 1992." Supersedes the 1970 ed. of Area handbook for Albania, coauthored by Eugene K. Keefe [et al.]. Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index. Also available in digital form.

Albania : a country study / - Albania

Albania : a country study / - Albania

"Research completed April 1992." Supersedes the 1970 ed. of Area handbook for Albania, coauthored by Eugene K. Keefe [et al.]. Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index. Also available in digital form.

Albania : a country study / - Albania

Albania : a country study / - Albania

"Research completed April 1992." Supersedes the 1970 ed. of Area handbook for Albania, coauthored by Eugene K. Keefe [et al.]. Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index. Also available in digital form.

Albania : a country study / - Albania

Albania : a country study / - Albania

"Research completed April 1992." Supersedes the 1970 ed. of Area handbook for Albania, coauthored by Eugene K. Keefe [et al.]. Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index. Also available in digital form.

Albania : a country study / - Albania

Albania : a country study / - Albania

"Research completed April 1992." Supersedes the 1970 ed. of Area handbook for Albania, coauthored by Eugene K. Keefe [et al.]. Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index. Also available in digital form.

Albania : a country study / - Albania

Albania : a country study / - Albania

"Research completed April 1992." Supersedes the 1970 ed. of Area handbook for Albania, coauthored by Eugene K. Keefe [et al.]. Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index. Also available in digital form.

Albania : a country study / - Albania

Albania : a country study / - Albania

"Research completed April 1992." Supersedes the 1970 ed. of Area handbook for Albania, coauthored by Eugene K. Keefe [et al.]. Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index. Also available in digital form.

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