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The latest in royal reviews. Ever since the armistice, the fashion in "reviews" has changed considerably in the Balkans. Instead of long parades of gold braided officials and smart uniformed soldiery, as in the "Old Days", there are inspections of bread and soup lines, and files of ragged, destitute peasants. This picture illustrates the change in the old order. Queen Marie of Roumania is shown handing out American Clothing, and food to ragged peasants at a Red Cross relief station near Domnesti. As an American Red Cross worker Queen Marie had an opportunity to get first hand information from thousands of Roumanians as their conditions and needs

The latest in royal reviews. Ever since the armistice, the fashion in ...

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, Roumania. On caption card: (12915) Gift; Ame... More

Noble refugees from Russia. Russian girls of good families at the American Red Cross relief station on Proti Island. The girls are dressed in old gowns donated to the American Red Cross by American women. A group of girls from the Russian nobility among the refugees evacuated from Odessa and other Black Sea ports by the American Red Cross and brought to Prati Island, Constantinople

Noble refugees from Russia. Russian girls of good families at the Amer...

Caption from negative sleeve: Russian girls dressed in Ames old clothes. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Of... More

"Life is Real, Life is Earnest" to these two Russian children seated on the doorstep of the Red Cross relief station at Vilna. With their pails they are waiting for the distribution of condensed milk furnished by the Junior Red Cross of America. The youngster at the right wears a Polish military cap, while the clothes of both are made from scraps of soldiers garments. Of these 25,000 boys and girls are in the "bread line" continually, dependent on outside aid if they are to live

"Life is Real, Life is Earnest" to these two Russian children seated 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: Children Russia. On caption card: (1/2057) Used in... More

A Red Letter Day at Smokovatz. A group of Montenegrin children before the American Red Cross relief station at Smokovatz, where they have just received a bundle each of cast-off American garments. Fifteen hundred destitute mountain people got clothing on this day. In the background can be seen some of them still in line before the Red Cross station. It is the first clothing of any sort they have seen in five years. The old clothing is doing yeoman service, in the cold mountain regions this winter

A Red Letter Day at Smokovatz. A group of Montenegrin children before ...

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-Montenegro. On caption card: (1/1550) Use... More

A load of olives. Almost all the natives of the near east are fond of olives. The photo shows a Greek merchant on the island of Proti near Constantinople carrying a load of olives to the American Red Cross Relief station where 800 Russian refugees are being cared for

A load of olives. Almost all the natives of the near east are fond 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. Data: T.T. & C. Group Title: Refugees. Russia. Gift; American N... More

Latest in Montenegrin Millinery. Most of the women in Montenegro carry their burdens on their head, acquiring extraordinary facility in balancing the heaviest weights. These three peasant girls were snapped on their way back to their mountain home after a call at the American Red Cross relief station at Kolachin. The basket contain a ration of flour, rice, sugar, lard and clothing for a large family

Latest in Montenegrin Millinery. Most of the women in Montenegro carry...

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 (Supplies) On caption card: (11685) Us... More

A ragged Macedonian peasant at Kavalla, Greece, going to American Red Cross Relief Station

A ragged Macedonian peasant at Kavalla, Greece, going to 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. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 an... More

Where old duds are new duds. A group of War Orphans in front of an American Red Cross Relief station just after receiving a bundle of clothing, which each one is carrying in his arms. The clothing is all cast off American garments gathered by the Red Cross chapters in America and sent to Montenegro, where to these ragged and destitute people it transformed itself before their eyes into new and wonderful clothing. The Red Cross station can be seen to the left. On this day fifteen hundred person were given garments in preparation for the winter

Where old duds are new duds. A group of War Orphans in front of an Ame...

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. Montenegro. Formerly 08346. On caption ... More

A Marvelous Transformation. A series of three pictures illustrating the "before and after" periods of American Red Cross clothing distribution in Montenegro. The Raggedest Man in Montenegro. With clothes that were patched, darned and held together by bits of twine, shedding ravelings at almost every step, this man wandered into the market place at Podgoritza with a goat which he spent four years in a mountain cave during the Austrian occupation of the country with the goat as his only companion. With the money secured from its sale he set out to buy some clothes but could find no garment that could be bought at that price. He was picked up by Lieut. Col. H.L. Fairclough of Leland Stanford University, director of the American Red Cross work in Montenegro, as the raggedest of all ragged men in the country, and taken to the Red Cross relief station

A Marvelous Transformation. A series of three pictures illustrating th...

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, Montenegro. On caption card: (12995), (12996), ... More

Noble refugees from Russia. Russian girls of good families at the American Red Cross relief station on Proti Island. The girls are dressed in old gowns donated to the American Red Cross by American women. A group of girls from the Russian nobility among the refugees evacuated from Odessa and other Black Sea ports by the American Red Cross and brought to Prati Island, Constantinople

Noble refugees from Russia. Russian girls of good families at the Amer...

Caption from negative sleeve: Russian girls dressed in Ames old clothes. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Of... More

Dayton flood, April 4, 1913. Red Cross Relief Station with Nurse in attendance

Dayton flood, April 4, 1913. Red Cross Relief Station with Nurse in at...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Slides. Group title: Disaster Relief. 1 October 1919 [date received] Used in... More

A peasant family of Roumania returning from an American Red Cross relief station in the Tulcea district of Roumania. The father of this family was killed in the war and the woman and children were found living in a hovel without bed clothing of any kind. The mother got a supply of blankets and sheets from the Red Cross

A peasant family of Roumania returning from an American Red Cross reli...

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: (1006) Gift; American ... More

A few of the shoes that were sent into the south side Red Cross Relief Station for distribution among the flood sufferers. Pueblo Colorado flood

A few of the shoes that were sent into the south side Red Cross Relief...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Southwest Division. Classification: Disaster Relief. Date received: July 1921. Gi... 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

"Ding! Ding! Hold Your Hats." Riding a military narrow-gauge railroad from Bazar Schak, Albania, to Vora, is a delightful experience scenically. There's not much comfort on the jilting little cars, with hard pine benches, however. This party enroute to the American Red Cross relief station in Vora is composed of (from left to right) Miss Helen J. Ahren, Buffalo, Mrs. K. Bryan, of Denver; Miss Beatrice Moore of Sandy Springs, Md., and Dr. John Dooley Lyttle of Newark, N.J. The railway is operated by the Italian army of occupation

"Ding! Ding! Hold Your Hats." Riding a military narrow-gauge railroad ...

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. On caption card: 1/2102. Used... More

Queen Marie of Roumania distributing American clothing to women and children of a Red Cross relief station in her country. The Queen estimated the size of each child helped some to try on their clothes and told each one that they mist remember the generosity of the American people in the donation of these garments

Queen Marie of Roumania distributing American clothing to women and ch...

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, Roumania. On caption card: (12900) Used... More

The War, the Moths, and Michael. A Bessarabian boy with his Russian hat that the moths wouldn't let alone and the overcoat that wouldn't hold together. He hasn't had any clothes in five years and has had to do his own mending as he doesn't know what happened to his parents, having been lost in a big refugee movement in the near East. He was photographed upon his arrival at an American Red Cross relief station. He insisted on holding his old overcoat and the new pair of American shoes

The War, the Moths, and Michael. A Bessarabian boy with his Russian ha...

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: Serbia. Children. On caption card: (11589) Used i... More

Proteges of American children. A group of Roumanian children that are receiving aid from the boys and girls of America through their Junior Red Cross organization. They were rescued from the famine by the milk and cocoa sent by the Junior Red Cross and now are enabled to go to school because of the books and supplies sent them from America. The picture was taken outside a Red Cross relief station during a demonstration in which the mothers and the children sent their thanks to the American children for the aid given them

Proteges of American children. A group of Roumanian children that are ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Data: Jr. Red Cross, Apr. 1920; 14th Div. Publicity, Apr. 1920. Gro... More

Millinery note from Roumania. A pretty Roumanian maiden smiles while being photographed in her "market basket" millinery. This is the most popular style of headgear in the country and serves not only as an adornment but as a useful receptacle for market. The girl is dressed in what is left of her native costume, and is on her way home from the American Red Cross relief station. In her "hat" she has twenty pounds of relief supplies for her family. She is the type of woman that the Red Cross is aiding through its relief work in the country

Millinery note from Roumania. A pretty Roumanian maiden smiles while b...

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 A.P. Paris Office until June 25, 1920. Group title: ... More

Destitute and ragged children waiting for clothing at the American Red Cross Relief Station in Jassy. Every child was thoroughly bathed and scrubbed before getting any fresh clothes. Although this picture was taken in mid-winter, many of the children, as may be seen from the photograph, were without shoes or stockings. The clothing of others consisted only of a shirt. Captain Daniel J. McCarthy and Miss Rosana Pierce, of the American Mission, are standing in the doorway

Destitute and ragged children waiting for clothing at the American Red...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Romania. Used in: Ex. indef. to Mrs. Fiske. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the American National Red C... More

Their faces tell the story. A group of destitute Roumanian peasants with the tragedy of war written deep in the lines of their faces. The mother who gave five sons, the wife who sacrificed a husband and the woman whose whole family has disappeared, they are all here pinning thir faith of the future in the generosity of the American people. It is part of the morning crowd before an American Red Cross relief station, where food, clothing and medical attention is given

Their faces tell the story. A group of destitute Roumanian peasants wi...

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., Apr. 3, 1920. Group title: Refugees, Roumania. Gif... More

A Country in Rags. A picture of Queen Marie talking with her destitute and ragged country people. It was snapped one day while at work at the American Red Cross relief station outside Bucharest. It shows the condition of the people when the American Red Cross arrived. Chidlren roamed the streets naked or wrapped only in a few wretched rags. In one mountain village American relief workers found an entire family attired in clothes made of grass and leaves

A Country in Rags. A picture of Queen Marie talking with her destitute...

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, Roumania. On caption card: (11675) Gift... More

American Made Smiles. A group of happy Turkish children at Tuzi, Montenegro. The picture was taken at the American Red Cross relief station where hundreds of children are being fed and clothed. Under American influence and food these mountain children are growing into a particularly bright set of boys. The day this photograph was taken they were expecting an unusual event. The Red Cross truck is due with a load of clothes for them-the first they have had in five years. The chap in the center is the only happy one-and his trouble is only temporary, due to the loss of his fez in the scramble to be photographed and have their picture sent to America

American Made Smiles. A group of happy Turkish children at Tuzi, Monte...

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-Montenegro. On caption card: No. 12/1109.... More

Happiest Day in His Life. Three hours before this picture was snapped, this little Albanian boy of Tirana was a symphony of rags and vermin. Then came his turn at the showers of the Red Cross relief station where plenty of soap, and kindly nurses were responsible for a marvelous transformation. Next in order was a visit to the Junior Red Cross clothing room in the dispensary. Here the little fellow was dressed in the clothing he is wearing in this photo. It was the first complete outfit he had ever owned and he confided to the nurses, through interpreters, that "this is the happiest day of my life"

Happiest Day in His Life. Three hours before this picture was snapped,...

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: (1/2136) Used i... More

American Relief Worker With Favorite Orphan. Miss Esther M. Roe of Pacific Junction, Iowa , Nurse in the Koritza Junior Red Cross relief station and one of the children who had medical care there. The Americans frequently become very much attached to some of the children they care for and the children thus favored usually take the christian names of their benefactors by way of showing their appreciation

American Relief Worker With Favorite Orphan. Miss Esther M. Roe of Pac...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Data: Central Division Red Cross Bull. Group title: Children Person... More

Oasis in Desert of Starvation. The American Red Cross relief station at Monastir, where 32,000 Serbs were fed, clothed, and cared for. For miles around destitute people came to receive rations of food. The station was in charge of Captain Lanning MacFarland of Park Hills, Illinois, a former Harvard football star

Oasis in Desert of Starvation. The American Red Cross relief station 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, Serbia. On caption card: (11719) Gift; A... More

Exhibit "A" One Dead Man. As a warning to evil doers, the policemen of Albania, exhibit all the dead men they bring in from the mountain raids. "Thieve's Stone" the official name of the slab on which these bodies are laid, is directly across the street from an American Red Cross relief station from which astonished Americans for the first time viewed this unusual custom. Standing behind the dead man is the policeman who did the fatal shooting. The dead man, it is all-aged, had committed a series of daring robberies in the mountains

Exhibit "A" One Dead Man. As a warning to evil doers, the policemen of...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Ex. Kadel and Herbert, Paris Office. Group title: General, Albania. On caption ca... More

In the Piping Days of Old. This beautiful garden, a part of the Roumanian Royal Summer Palace at Sinai, was the scene of gorgeous festivals. But today it witnesses only processions of misery and want. For near it there is an American Red Cross relief station where the Roumanian peasants, made destitute by the war, come for rations of food, clothes and medical attention. Superstitious natives say its roses will never bloom again as the result of the scenes that have been enacted about it during the past year. In the foreground of the photo is Miss Constanza Caplescu, a Roumanian-American nurse who is serving with the Red Cross

In the Piping Days of Old. This beautiful garden, a part of the Rouman...

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. Roumania. On caption card: (12/1132) Used in:... More

Mrs. Commiskey, Chicago chapter woman, taking charge of Red Cross Relief Station at Dunning, Ill. Questions victims of tornado for survey

Mrs. Commiskey, Chicago chapter woman, taking charge of Red Cross Reli...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Central Div. Group title: Disaster relief, U.S. Gift; American National Red Cross... More

"Clothing Distribution Day" at American Red Cross Relief Station at Galetz, on the Danube River

"Clothing Distribution Day" at American Red Cross Relief Station at Ga...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Balkan Commission. Group title: Serbia. Used in: Ex. August 27, 1919. To all... More

A Kiss for Cinderella. Just like the well known fairy, Queen Marie of Roumania dresses in peasant garb and goes out among her people. But unlike Cinderella she is recognized almost everywhere as the real Princess and accordingly the Roumanian people who meet her insist on paying homage in the accepted manner by kissing her hand. This shows the Queen distributing supplies at an American Red Cross relief station and accepting the people's customary expression of respect and appreciation for her efforts in their behalf

A Kiss for Cinderella. Just like the well known fairy, Queen Marie 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: Personnel, Roumania. On caption card: (12980) Gift... More

American bread for Greeks. At the American Red Cross relief station in Kavalla with Christians, Mohammedans and Jews lined up for a bread ration. The Red Cross took over an old Turkish tobacco warehouse at Kavalla for its station

American bread for Greeks. At the American Red Cross relief station in...

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 (Supplies) On caption card: (10139) Used i... More

War orphans and destitute peasants of Roumania at the opening of an American Red Cross relief station. Hundreds of ragged and unclothed children passed by Queen Marie who aided in the distribution of supplies. After receiving soap and food from the Queen, each destitute person was given a complete outfit of American clothing

War orphans and destitute peasants of Roumania at the opening of an Am...

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, Roumania. On caption card: (12800) Used in: ... More

Red Cross Relief Station in Dunning District

Red Cross Relief Station in Dunning District

Source of negative: ARC, Central Div. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Kaufmann & Fabry Co. Data: Red Cross Bullet... More

A Saxon type to be found in the Transylvanian district of Roumania. With her soldier brother she is one her way to the American Red Cross relief station. The smile is one of anticipation, or perhaps pleasure at being photographed by an American

A Saxon type to be found in the Transylvanian district of Roumania. Wi...

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: Roumania. On caption card: (11425) Gift; Americ... More

When the Day's Work is Done. Opposite the American Red Cross relief station at Ryeka, Montenegro, the farmers from the upper end of Lake Scutari moor their queer little boats when they come to market. And when they have exchanged all of their own produce for articles of more use to them they come back to their skiffs and wait for the day to get cooler before poling their boats back home. Very little money changes hands nowadays in Montenegrin markets. They are back to the primitive trading methods exchanging these articles of which they have many for those of which they have none. The Red Cross station can be seen in the background with an American supply truck drawn up before the door

When the Day's Work is Done. Opposite the American Red Cross relief st...

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, Montenegro. On caption card: (1/15... More