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"Don't cry little girl, don't cry" says Lieut. Col. Frederick Keppel, Washington D.C. Director of American Red Cross Foreign Relief, to a little Montenegrin waif found living on scraps of food in one of the numerous mountain caves near Podgoritza. The child with many others were found by American Red Cross workers, begging by day and sleeping thirty in a cave at night. They are all War Orphans and are now being cared for by the American Relief Organization

"Don't cry little girl, don't cry" says Lieut. Col. Frederick Keppel, ...

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, Montenegro. On caption card: (11689) U... More

Lost Soles. Illustrating the conditions as regards footwear that exist in Southern Europe today. The picture shows the feet of a mother and son who came to the American Red Cross station in Podgoritza, Montenegro, asking for aid. During the war, many soldiers went shoeless, even in winter, several thousand losing their legs as a result of frozen feet. Red Cross doctors say that 25 percent of the winter illness in these countries today is caused by lack of proper clothing and foot protection. The American relief organization has already distributed several tons of used American clothing and shoes in Montenegro

Lost Soles. Illustrating the conditions as regards footwear that exist...

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, Montenegro. On caption card: (1/1899) Us... More

One who needed no relief. A relative of the ex-king of Montenegro. The biggest man physically as well as politically in the country. He stands 6 feet 4 inches in his stocking feet and tips the scales at 327 pounds. He is a type of the old monarchist regime, but like all other political factions of the country he pitched in to aid the American Red Cross in its program of relief. And he was also one of the few in Montenegro who asked for no aid from the American relief organization

One who needed no relief. A relative of the ex-king of Montenegro. 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: Montenegro (Personnel) On caption card: (11681) Us... More

Queen Disguised as Peasant. Queen Marie of Roumania in native peasant costume is shown here helping in the distribution of American Red Cross supplies to the needy children and mothers of Bucharest. Due to depressing economic conditions, the Roumanian government was unable to give much relief to its needy, so the Queen gave her personal services to the American relief organization, pitching into the hardest kind of work

Queen Disguised as Peasant. Queen Marie of Roumania in native peasant ...

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: Per Roumania. On caption card: (12788) Gift; Ameri... More

Why Balkan Demobilization is Slow. A scene at Kavalla, Macedonia, with Greek soldiers camping in the streets. This is one of the many disputed towns of the Balkans where demobilization is held up pending the settlement of these questions. The American is Captain Claude E. Marble, of Oneida, N.Y. artificial limb expert for the American Red Cross, who has been directing the work in several wooden leg factories established by the American relief organization in the Balkans

Why Balkan Demobilization is Slow. A scene at Kavalla, Macedonia, 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: Gen. Greece. On caption card: (12/1118) Used in: A... More

"Hey, Skin-nay, C'Mon Over." There's bread and sugar and condensed milk and chocolate an' everything. It's the lunch hour at a school in Bosnia with the American Red Cross serving the eats. Most of these children are of Turkish parents, who migrated with the ever widening Turkish domination many years ago. They and their Christian companions were found starving and in rags by the American relief organization. More than fifty soup kitchens were set up and several relief stations for the distribution of food and clothing

"Hey, Skin-nay, C'Mon Over." There's bread and sugar and condensed mil...

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: Bosnia. On caption card: 11758. Gift; American Nat... More

The Monastery at Sinaia. It was here that Carmen Sylva, late Queen of Roumania, came to worship. It was left intact despite the war, although the American Red Cross workers found the district badly in need of medical aid. The American relief organization received fine cooperation from the monastery people

The Monastery at Sinaia. It was here that Carmen Sylva, late Queen 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: Roumania. On caption card: (11470) Used in: Tech,... 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

Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep. Its bedtime at the American Red Cross orphanage at Kobryn, where 250 children who have lost their parents in the war are taken care of by the American relief organization. The orphans are wearing American clothing while they sleep under warm Red Cross blankets and clean sheets. This Kobryn institution is only one of the numerous orphanages established by the Red Cross throughout the country. The little cots are made from packing cases and lumber collected from ruined buildings

Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep. Its bedtime at the American Red Cross orph...

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: Poland, children. On caption card: (12/1190) Used ... More

Where East Meets West. A view of the port of Salonica, one of the most polygot cities of the world today. Here the Allied armies of the Orient are gathered and here also have fled thousands of refugee from every land in the Near East. During the war a $100,000,000 fire devastated half the city and brought about an indescribable condition of crowding and disease. By nature of its geographic position it was chosen by the American Red Cross as a base for its Balkan operations but the American Relief Organization found no greater need for its services than right here in this city

Where East Meets West. A view of the port of Salonica, one of the most...

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: Gen. Greece. On caption card: (11733) Gift; Americ... More