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The bread boy - at the camp at Salonica for Greeks who have been brought back from the Caucasus for the purpose of colonizing their country's rewon province of Thrace They have been delayed at Salonica where they landed and their plight has become so bad that the American Red Cross and other relief agencies have stepped in to stem the misery and death.

The bread boy - at the camp at Salonica for Greeks who have been broug...

Filed in: Greece Children General. No. RC-8724. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.

Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the road. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies. The father, aged thirty-five, is an intelligent fellow, a painter by trade. Advanced tuberculosis, victim of an occupational disease. Ineligible for WPA  (Works Progress Administration), rated as totally disabled. As a state charge under Oklahoma relief standards, the family were told the maximum relief would be seven dollars every two weeks. They lost their home, their furniture, took to the road a year ago and when the photographs were made they were found to be without money, shelter, and without food for the four children

Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the r...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Oklahoma migrant, Texas. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies. The father, aged thirty-five, is an intelligent fellow, a painter by trade. Advanced tuberculosis, victim of an occupational disease. Ineligible for WPA (Works Progress Administration), rated as totally disabled. As a state charge under Oklahoma relief standards, the family were told the maximum relief would be seven dollars every two weeks. They lost their home, their furniture,

Oklahoma migrant, Texas. An example of how they fall between the relie...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1920s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description