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Carte ethnographique de la Péninsule des Balkans /

Carte ethnographique de la Péninsule des Balkans /

Prime meridian: Paris. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Christmas in the Balkans / Kep., Political Cartoon

Christmas in the Balkans / Kep., Political Cartoon

Illustration shows Santa Claus climbing out a window, leaving behind a large sack of Christmas presents in front of a large fireplace where stockings labeled "Montenegro, Servia, Italy, England, Bulgaria, Germa... More

Soldiers lying wounded outside the first line trench dugouts waiting for members of Red Cross to take them to dressing stations, during the Balkan Campaign

Soldiers lying wounded outside the first line trench dugouts waiting f...

Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: International Film Service. Group Title: Soldiers, Allies, Balkans. Data: International... More

Wasted Wealth in the Balkans. Thousands of dollars worth of "white coal" goes to waste in the Balkans every day through failure to make use of the existing water power. This grist mill has been in operation 350 years but it is utilizing only one fiftieth of the power that could be generated on this spot. Impressed by the tremendous coal shortage Europe is enduring, American Red Cross sanitation experts in Montenegro while inspection in the mountain streams to detect typhoid sources, have been amazed at the possibilities for hydroelectric installations

Wasted Wealth in the Balkans. Thousands of dollars worth of "white coa...

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, Montenegro. On caption card: (1/1901) Use... More

Ethnic distribution in the western Balkans, 2008 /

Ethnic distribution in the western Balkans, 2008 /

Covers the former Yugoslav republics minus Slovenia but including Albania. Ethnic data shown in opština-level administrative divisions. "782147AI (G01520) 4-08." Includes text, population density inset, statist... More

The Balkans / Historic map, Library of Congress

The Balkans / Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown by shading and spot heights. "802626 (543674) 2-99." Issued also folded to 25 x 18 cm. Includes notes. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Delousing machines used in the Balkans. A piece of heavy artillery in the war against Typhus, Small pox and other diseases raging in the Balkans is the delousing sistern. Many of these machines have been brought to Roumania, Serbia and other countries in Eastern Europe by the American Red Cross. Many of the Diseases prevalent in the Balkans are due to lice and germs. The delousing machine is used to thoroughly disinfect clothing, bedding, etc. of victims. An appreciable decrease in the number of cases have been recorded wherever the American delouser was put into use

Delousing machines used in the Balkans. A piece of heavy artillery in ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Group title: Roumania. On caption card: (NC116) Used in: Ex. Underwood and U... More

Cheerful Balkan Burden-Bearer. The women of the Balkans, unlike their more progressive sisters in America, are satisfied to be the burden bearers of the city and town and countryside, preferring to let their men follow their immemorial vocation of going to battle and guarding home and country. The aged but sturdy housewife in the picture was snapped at the American Red Cross dispensary in Sarajevo, Bosnia, where she had come to apply for milk for her little grandchild

Cheerful Balkan Burden-Bearer. The women of the Balkans, unlike their ...

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: Dispensary, Bosnia. On caption card: 1/1496. Used ... More

So scarce is food in most parts of the Balkans that they sell potatoes and other vegetables by the piece and not by the basket. This shows a typical street market at Kavalla, each merchant with a full day's stock. If it had not been for the American Red Cross assistance in the Balkans many more people would have starved

So scarce is food in most parts of the Balkans that they sell potatoes...

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: Greece (Markets) On caption card: (1048) Used in: ... More

In Greek towns a municipal wash tub is provided where the "fair sex" meet on Monday mornings to discuss styles and scandel [i.e., scandal] As in all countries of the Balkans children are plentiful and smiles are universal when the camera lines them up.

In Greek towns a municipal wash tub is provided where the "fair sex" m...

Photographs show an outdoor communal laundry area, possibly in Thebes and a large group of children, Greece. Negative series code stamped on page: LC-C26. On page: no. 1465 (top image), and no. 1466 (bottom ... More

Direct from Mills of Minnesota to mouths in the Balkans. American flour being unloaded at the pier in Salonica for distribution by the American Red Cross throughout the Balkan countries. The supplies are unloaded from the ship in the harbors unto lighters, which are pulled by hand to the docks as no tugs are available. Salonica is one of the largest ports in the Near East. But despite its immese(?) sea traffic practically all labor is performed by hand

Direct from Mills of Minnesota to mouths in the Balkans. American flou...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC, Official Red Cross Photo. Group title: Greece, Supplies. On caption card: (3... 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

The Balkans / Historic map, Library of Congress

The Balkans / Historic map, Library of Congress

In the "Wheat Pit" of Tirana. Wheat speculation in Tirana, Albania, is accomplished without the assistance of tickers or brokers. The wheat pit of Tirana is a corner of the market place where buyer and seller meet face to face. Between them they weigh the grain. The primitive scales must balance to a hair's breadth before the transaction is completed. Grain is one of the scarcest food products of the Balkans. Until American cereal relief arrived thousands had gone without white bread for five years. The Red Cross supervised the actual distribution of food relief in many parts of the Balkans

In the "Wheat Pit" of Tirana. Wheat speculation in Tirana, Albania, is...

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: Markets, Albania. On caption card: 1/2188. Used in: T.... 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

A black and white photo of a group of people. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people. Office of War Informatio...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Post War Styles in Balkans. Graphic evidence of the enormous need of clothing which prevailed throughout the Balkans during the post war period, is given in this photograph, which shows a group of Roumanian peasants gathered in the grounds of the local convent for an American Red Cross clothing distribution. A thousand ragged youngsters, accompanied by their ragged parents attended this distribution of second hand children's garments from America. The distribution was presided over by no less a personage than Queen Marie, who is seen with the Mother Superior of the convent. The American angle of the picture is supplied by the Red Cross girl in the background, and a corner of the American flag which shows just to the right of the Queen's turban

Post War Styles in Balkans. Graphic evidence of the enormous need of c...

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 Roumania. On caption card: (1/1424) Used ... More

Men Who Popularized Pajamas in Balkans. Lieut. L.N. Tuckerman of Boston is the smallest officer in the Montenegrin Commission of the American Red Cross but he originated one very big idea, that of putting Red Cross pajamas to use as trousers for the Moslem women, and this idea enabled the Red Cross to largely increase its relief work in the Balkans at the time when every ounce of effort counted. He is shown here with his back to the camera at a distribution of second hand clothing in Montenegro, wondering how his scant supplies can be made to do for such a large number of deserving people. It was on this occasion that he was struck with the Great Idea, and for with took over for external clothing purposes the large stock of pajamas which nobody in the Balkans could be persuaded to use for night garments

Men Who Popularized Pajamas in Balkans. Lieut. L.N. Tuckerman of Bosto...

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: 1/1462. Use... More

Sleeping-Car Berth with Perils. If you think railway travel is congested in America, look at this sample of the every-day affair in any one of the Balkan states. The boy in front has found himself a comfortable "berth" on the lower step, while his mother is comfortably-but dangerously (?) on a burlap sack containing her clothes for the journey. The Germans and Austrians left very little rolling steak in any of the Balkan states, and the railroads have been compelled to fall back on obsolete day coaches, mostly of Russian vintage. Even of these delapidated cars there are nowhere near enough to take care of the travelers. Passengers are forced to ride on the roofs, bumpers, running boards, and even on the under-trucks of the coaches. The smiling young woman in the doorway, with her two children, will have to stand up for five hours, 53 miles, and there will be a dozen other standers in the same compartment. Such is life in the Balkans. The danger of railway travel are emphatically shown in the records of the American Red Cross hospitals, which treat scores of cases daily

Sleeping-Car Berth with Perils. If you think railway travel is congest...

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, Roumania. On caption card: (1/1420... More

A Carload of Misery. Old Macedonians, all soldiers who fought in the war on their way to the American Red Cross hospital at Salonica to be treated for typhus during the recent epidemic in the Balkans. In order to check the spread of the disease Red Cross doctors and nurses travelled throught the Balkans trying to isolate the afflicted people. They obtained the only transportation available-freight cars and sent hundreds of them to the Red Cross station at Salonica where they could obtain proper care. Although sick enough to be in bed the old men, with characteristic Balkan fortitude, never complained throughout the journey

A Carload of Misery. Old Macedonians, all soldiers who fought in the w...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: A.R.C. Balkan Comm. Group title: Greece. On caption card: (12/1258) Used in: All ... More

Red Cross Treasure House in Balkans. The largest American Red Cross warehouse in the Balkans is in Belgrade, where are stored hundreds of thousands of tons of food, clothing and medicines, sent from the American Red Cross chapters to relieve the distress and suffering in this stricken part of southeastern Europe

Red Cross Treasure House in Balkans. The largest American Red Cross wa...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: A.R.C. Balkan Comm. Group title: Serbia. Used in: Ex. August 27, 1919. All divisi... More

A white flag means typhus in Balkans. Lieut. Brandier E. Sykes of Chapel Hill, N.C. finds another typhus case on his rounds for the American Red Cross and posts a white flag on the house as a warning to neighbors. Note the family burial ground in the front yard right next to the well. This gives a good idea of sanitary conditions throughout the Balkan country

A white flag means typhus in Balkans. Lieut. Brandier E. Sykes of Chap...

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. Serbia. On caption card: (11679) Used ... More

American ambulances for Balkans. The type of car that the American Red Cross is using at its various hospitals in the Balkans. Answering an emergency request from the Roumanian government recently the Red Cross gathered twenty of these ambulances from its hospitals in one day and sent them with the Roumanian Army into Budapest. This picture was taken on the docks at Salonica, Greece

American ambulances for Balkans. The type of car that the American Red...

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: Greece (Automobiles) On caption card: (10140) Use... More