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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A black and white photo of a building, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Date based on date of negatives in same ra... More

The Ambulance of the Hillmen. American Red Cross nurse at Tirana, Albania, unloading a patient from the mountain ambulance of the hillmen, a donkey. Riding astride a donkey is the smoothest and easiest method of travelling in the rough trails of the mountain country. There are few roads in Albania many miles to the American Red Cross hospitals

The Ambulance of the Hillmen. American Red Cross nurse at Tirana, 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: Transportation, Hospital-Albania. On caption card:... More

Insisted on Paying Doctor's Bill. They walked twenty miles, from their home in the Albanian mountains, to get to the Junior Red Cross dispensary at the town of Tirana. They are sisters and the girl at the left was suffering from an infection that would have brought blindness to both eyes if permitted to go untreated. With them they brought two live chickens and six eggs for the doctor. When told there was "no charge" the sisters refused to consider the idea and insisted on leaving the poultry

Insisted on Paying Doctor's Bill. They walked twenty miles, from 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: Children Albania. On caption card: (1/2174) Gift; ... 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

The Opinga boy - Frank G. Carpenter collection

The Opinga boy - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Man and two boys selling opinga, which are sandals, Tirana, Albania. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection.

Nice Straw Hats For Sale; Three Cents. All day long this little Albanian boy, with the big brown eyes walks about the town of Tirana selling straw hats. Capital to start him in business (twenty cents) was supplied by a Junior Red Cross representative. For three American pennies you can buy a big straw hat guaranteed to last eight years. He is self supporting and is a great favorite with the Americans

Nice Straw Hats For Sale; Three Cents. All day long this little Albani...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Group title: Children-Albania. On caption card: (1/2177) Used in: Junior Red... More

American demonstrations in Albania. Showing some of the tiny Albanians of Tirana who marched in parades to do honor to America's Fourth of July this year. 'Free American' is like a star that shines always in the vision of the peoples of Europe that war has recently freed from bondage to foreign ruler-ship and any display of reviving national spirit always goes hand in hand with gratitude for the friendship of that great country.The demonstrations this year were made much by all the children for it is from American school children and their Junior Red Cross that so many blessings have come to them in their long period of hardshipand distress

American demonstrations in Albania. Showing some of the tiny Albanians...

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: Jr. Red Cross. Children.Albania. Gift; American Nation... More

These are typical Albanian school boys in not exactly typical American clothes. When they first came to the American Red Cross School at Tirana, Albania, these youngsters had never worn anything in their lives but rags. Every one of them had to be "deloused" and given a whole new outfit of clean American clothing. The young gentleman in the center however refused to give up the gorgeous embroidered jacket, the pride of his ancestors, and they all persisted in wearing the traditional fez

These are typical Albanian school boys in not exactly typical American...

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) Gift; American National Red C... More

When Bridges Were Built to Stand. Built during the Roman occupation of Albania, centuries ago, this bridge today carries traffic into Tirana, a town bisected by a small mountain stream across which several similar roadways mark the epoch of the Caesars. Modern heavy American automobiles carrying Red Cross relief supplies rumble across these bridges causing never a temper. But since the disintegration of the Roman Empire, bridge building has been a lost art here although the country stands in a serious need of much work of this kind

When Bridges Were Built to Stand. Built during the Roman occupation 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: General, Albania. On caption card: (1/2148) Used i... More

This Albanian boy with his Moslem mother is dressed in the native costume. They called at the Red Cross hospital in Tirana to visit their father who was a patient there. Despite the fact that this family is fairly well off, the Red Cross hospital was the only place the father could get any medical treatment, as it was the only hospital in the district. The boy, too, has had to depend on the Jr. Red Cross to continue his schooling as it was the school supplies sent by the Jr. R.C. of America which enabled the Albanian schools to continue operations

This Albanian boy with his Moslem mother is dressed in the native cost...

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: (1/2139) Used i... More

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

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

A black and white photo of a large building, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Date based on date of negatives in s... More

American nurse an oracle in Albania. Albanian mother seeking advice at the Junior Red Cross of America children's clinic in Tirana and Miss Mabel Steel, of San Francisco, the chief nurse, making a blood test on the five months old infant. Due to a prolonged diet of rice and flour the child is a victim of malnutrition and in the advanced stages of anemia. Education that will equip native mothers with a knowledge of baby hygiene and feeding is the great cry of the hour in Albania as in other Balkan countries for with a threatened scourge of tuberculosis and wasting diseases the thousand of underfed and neglected children are said to be in great danger of succumbing almost 'en masse'

American nurse an oracle in Albania. Albanian mother seeking advice at...

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 Div. Junior Red Cross.Group title: Dispensary. Albani... More

When these boys recover from the distress and starvation of the war, they are going to be champions. This is the champion gym class at the Tirana American Red Cross School, under the tutelage of Miss Charlotte Watrous of New Haven, Conn., every boy of which considers himself an aspirant for the Olympic games. The physical training classes have been established in connection with the other Red Cross work, the hospitals, dispensaries and dental clinics

When these boys recover from the distress and starvation of the war, 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 Personnel (Children) Used in: Atlantic Di... More

When these boys recover from the distress and starvation of the war, they are going to be champions. This is the champion gym class at the Tirana American Red Cross School, under the tutelage of Miss Charlotte Watrous of New Haven, Conn., every boy of which considers himself an aspirant for the Olympic games. The physical training classes have been established in connection with the other Red Cross work, the hospitals, dispensaries and dental clinics

When these boys recover from the distress and starvation of the war, t...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card for related, adjacent negative. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC, Paris Office. Group title: Albania Personnel ... 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

Insisted on paying doctor's bill. They walked twenty miles, from their home in the Albanian mountains, to get to the Junior Red Cross dispensary at the town of Tirana. They are sisters and the girl at the left was suffering from an infection that would have brought blindness to both eyes if permitted to go untreated. With them they brought two live chickens and six eggs for the doctor. When told there was "no charge" the sisters refused to consider the idea and insisted on leaving the poultry

Insisted on paying doctor's bill. They walked twenty miles, from 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: Children Albania. On caption card: (1/2174) Gift; ... More

A delegation waiting upon Major Robert C. Demson at Red Cross House in Tirana, to thank the Government of the U.S. and President Wilson for their interest in Albania. Suleman Effends carrying the Red flag of Albania with its black eagle

A delegation waiting upon Major Robert C. Demson at Red Cross House in...

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: Albania. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944... More

Two flags Albanians will never forget. Old Glory and the American Red Cross emblem can be seen flying from one end of Albania to the other. They have brought a new idea to this old world country, probably the most primitive in Europe. Wherever those flags are exhibited, the people know they can look for a lightening of their burdens and a helping hand with their troubles. This shows the American Red Cross hospital at Tirana, to which American doctors and nurses go into the surrounding country to care for the sick and ailing. At the extreme right is Dr. Lloyd W. Brooke of Portland, Oreg. Director of the Tirana Hospital

Two flags Albanians will never forget. Old Glory and 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: Hospital, Albania. On caption card: (12/1306) Gift... More

Over the river and up the hill. The last stage in transporting American Red Cross supplies in transporting American Red Cross supplies in Albania. Albanians and Italians dragging a big American Red Cross truck across the Ishmi river toward the road to Tirana. Many rivers must be crossed in this fashion in the trip from Scutari in Northern Albania to the American Red Cross "Capital" at Tirana. Those who have not visited Albania have little idea of the tremendous difficulties overcome by American Red Cross doctors, nurses and doughboys who are working to get food, clothing and medicines of the needy Albanians

Over the river and up the hill. The last stage in transporting America...

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: 12963. Used in... 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

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 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

Everywhere in Central and Eastern Europe American relief workers have penetrated, and their work has received the hearty cooperation of Allied military chieftens. Starvation and disease have been the enemies fought by the American Red Cross, which sends units fully equipped with food, clothing and medical supplies to fight the scourage resulting from the wide-spread destitution left by the war. Among these who have proven themselves ardent friends of the Red Cross is General Giacena Ferrero of the Italian Army in charge of the Albanian forces. He was snapped for this picture in front of the Italian headquarters with Major Robert C. Denison of New Haven, Conn., head of the Red Cross mission at Tirana

Everywhere in Central and Eastern Europe American relief workers have ...

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 Personnel. Used in: Atlantic Division. Oc... More

Miss Caroline Robinson, Head Nurse with Albanian American Red Cross Unit and group of Dispensary Patients. Tirana, Albania

Miss Caroline Robinson, Head Nurse with Albanian American Red Cross Un...

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: Albana. (Personnel) Gift; American National Red C... More

Old Glory Replaces Star and Crescent. Moslem women, whose fathers remember Turkish rule in Albania when the Crescent represented constituted authority throughout the land, are now flocking to the newest standard in Albania the Stars and the Stripes. The flag hangs outside the American Red Cross headquarters in Tirana. Here the veiled Moslem women flock to work in the sewing rooms where Red Cross cloth and cast, off American clothing is re, done to meet the needs of destitute Albanians

Old Glory Replaces Star and Crescent. Moslem women, whose fathers reme...

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: (1/2200) Used in:... More

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

Albanians Wait Curiously For Medical Aid. Awaiting their turn at the Red Cross hospital-clinic in Tirana, Albania the strange people of the Balkin state exhibit a strange fear of what might be in store for them. They are unaccustomed to scientific care of the sick as it is known in the western world so the strange things that are accomplished by American doctors and nurses in alleviation of paid and in actual cures is to them the result of some supernatural influence. The combined efforts of the Junior Red Cross and the American Red Cross are aiming largely at the treatment of sick and neglected children. At present the death toll from tuberculosis and other wasting diseases grow larger every month

Albanians Wait Curiously For Medical Aid. Awaiting their turn at the R...

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: Dispensary Albania. Gift; Amer... More

American "Invasion" of Near East. Close by a Moslem minaret, in Tirana, Albania the American Red Cross dispensary treats hundreds of sick Albanians daily. Dazzling white in the sub tropical sunlight, the minarets are used by Mohammedan priests for calling the people to prayer. The American woman in the picture is a Red Cross nurse; Miss Helen Emily LeBerge, of East Bakersfield, Cal. In the background, beside the rustic fenec, are Albanian patients waiting their turn to meet the Red Cross physicians

American "Invasion" of Near East. Close by a Moslem minaret, in Tirana...

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, Albania. On caption card: (1/2118) Used... More

War Veteran at Age of Twelve. This boy was five years old when he lost his arm in the Balkan War of 1912. In that year he appeared in the town of Tirana with one arm a stump, a refugee from a fighting area in the hills some miles away. The Balkan villagers took pity on him when they found him fighting with the street dogs for scraps of food. When the Junior Red Cross came to Tirana they found a home for the youngster, who is now 12 years of age and is now a veteran of two wars

War Veteran at Age of Twelve. This boy was five years old when he lost...

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: (1/2176) Used i... More

Tirana Espaǫla - Public domain American sheet music

Tirana Espaǫla - Public domain American sheet music

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

Albanian Mission of Welcome which greeted the Albanian Unit of the American Red Cross upon its arrival at Tirana, Albania. Bishop Osman Effendi who spoke for Albania

Albanian Mission of Welcome which greeted the Albanian Unit of the Ame...

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: Albania (Personnel) Gift; American National Red... More

Talk on Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick given to the refugee class at Tirana, Albania. ARC nurse instructor seated and interpreter standing

Talk on Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick given to the refugee class a...

Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the American National Red Cross photograph ... More

Through the veil, the Mohammedan women are forced to wear, this group at Tirana, Albania, are thanking Miss Helen Ahern, of Buffalo, N.Y. for the aid the American Red Cross brought their sick. Because of the religious restrictions Moslem women refused to consult a male doctor no matter how serious their illness. So the American Red Cross solved the problem by providing American women's doctors and nurses

Through the veil, the Mohammedan women are forced to wear, this group ...

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: Dispensaries, Albania. Gift; American National Red... More

Kerosene the favorite Balkan shampoo. Every Albanian child who is registered at the Junior Red Cross of American school in Tirana goes through the unpleasant ordeal of a general delousing and kerosene shampoo. Miss Letitia Osborne, of Union, West Virginia, in charge of this school and Miss Martha Ruby, of Uniontown, PA., a teacher are here seen at work on one of the little victims of lice and vermin that infest this disease ridden country

Kerosene the favorite Balkan shampoo. Every Albanian child who is regi...

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. PA. & Del. Div. Group title: Children. Albania. ... More

New cloths from American 'Juniors'. When Junior Red Cross of America supplies for the suffering children of Europe finally reach their destination this is the way they bring smiles. In Tirana, Albania these war waifs have received their share of clean, comfortable American clothing, some of it used before and some it spick span new, but all of it in good condition and sent along with the sympathy of American children

New cloths from American 'Juniors'. When Junior Red Cross of America s...

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. Sept. 13, 1920. Group title: Children. Albania... More

An itinereant orchestra in Tirana renders a little harmony for the children at the opening of the American Red Cross playground. The reeds predominate but the bass drummer does his best to drown the high notes of the Turkish clarinets. When they all get going good, the music, to the Occidental ear, resembles that of a flat-wheeled trolley car rounding a sharp curve near a busy boiler shop. These musicians play at all private and public occasions: weddings, funerals, christenings, church festivals

An itinereant orchestra in Tirana renders a little harmony for the chi...

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: (11770) Used ... More

The Only Railroad in Albania. This is the Tirana Durazzo Express which like the Toonerville Trolley "meets all Boats". It is a narrow guage military line built by the Austrians during their occupation of the country. When they evacuated they destroyed all locomotives and the road was considered useless. Upon the arrival of the American Red Cross with relief supplies for the country, the American workers suggested real horsepower for the line, and this is the result. Many tons of Red Cross supplies have been carried over this line and it affords some relief to weary travellers in the country

The Only Railroad in Albania. This is the Tirana Durazzo Express which...

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: (12/1143... 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

Tirana Espaǫla - Public domain American sheet music

Tirana Espaǫla - Public domain American sheet music

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860