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Most Fertile Valley in Montenegro. Perhaps there are one hundred acres of cultivable land in all of this valley in the interior of Montenegro, but it is by far the richest farm land in the country. Productive soil is one of the scarcest things in the little Balkan state, while Montenegrins say that they have more rocks and stones than all other nations together. But with all this the people of this country have to live off their farms almost entirely. During the war the enemy occupation production dwindled. After the armistice, when the American Red Cross arrived with relief, they found hundreds of children dying of malnutrition and the population in rags. Mobile medical units were sent into the farming district to look after the sick and tons of clothing and food distributed to the women and children
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In the Mountains of Montenegro. An aged mountaineer and his wife in front of their one-room stone house in the heart of of the Black Mountain Country. Their condition, ragged and comfortless, is typical of these people today. Their only possession of any value is the cow in the foreground. This ownership gives them a standing in the community, because cattle are rare since the enemy invasion. It is this type of people: hard-working, innocent victims of a great world upheaval that the American Red Cross is trying to aid in its relief work in the Balkans
In the Black Mountain Country. A typical view of Montenegro, picturesque but desolate and barren. It is known as the "Black Mountain" country because of the appearance of its rocky hills. Barren of all vegetation the peaks tower one above the other into the dim distance. Small mountain streams flow lazily through the valleys and ravines. Never able to raise more than is enough got their barest needs, the people were left destitute by the war and the occupation of the country by the enemy. Thousands were saved by the action of the American Red Cross in shipping hundreds of tons of relief supplies into the country. This picture was taken at the lower end of Lake Scutari, the most productive part of the country
The Country God Forgot. Montenegro got left when fertile soil was being passed around way back at the beginning of things. Many huge piles of barren rocks with a puny fir tree planted here and there was all that nature did for her. So when the war brought the enemy into her land to carry off every piece of movable property, the Montenegrins were in the same plight at the armistice as a man lost in the desert. The first relief to reach them came through the American Red Cross which sent several shiploads off of clothing and medicines. Now there are a dozen Red Cross relief stations to care for the needy all over the country
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Life on Montenegrin Farm. A Montenegrin farmer and his family at home. Fertile land is very scarce in this Balkan Country and every farmer has been hard put since the war to obtain a living from his farm. The children of this family have been aided by the Junior Red Cross of America, by gifts of clothing and medical attention from American doctors and nurses. The family live in the shack to the left, the children sleeping on straw beds
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The Best Farm in Montenegro. Here is the most fertile farm in the smallest and least productive of all the Balkan states, Montenegro. It consists of thirty acres and was bought with money earned in the American steel mills. For the owner emigrated to America and remained for six years. He returned and invested his savings in this land and is now considered wealthy by his fellow countrymen. He has three head of cattle and a flock of sheep and goats. His home, a one-room shack can be seen to the left. The fence that encloses his truck garden he built himself, weaving it from brush. He is one of the few who did not need American aid, which was brought to Montenegro by the Red Cross immediately after the armistice. This "prosperous" farm gives an idea of the condition of the other farmers of the country who have not so much or such fertile ground
Farming on a Mountain Side. Showing how the people of Montenegro, the rockiest, most mountainous country in Europe, have to build terraces for their gardens. The hillside from a distance presents the appearance of a huge flight of steps. Upon these small patches which must be worked by hand, the Montenegrin must raise enough to support his family. During the war the man power was reduced so the American Red Cross, upon bringing relief to the country after the armistice, found the majority of the women and children under fed. Note the overturned truck at the right. It tells the story of a load of Red Cross supplies that never reached their destination, the car sliding off the road
Summary
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: Farm Scenes Montenegro.
On caption card: (11699)
Used in: T.T. & C. Jr. Jan. 1920.
Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
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american red cross
montenegro
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country
cross supplies
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library of congress
france
paris
Date
01/01/1920
Location
Montenegro
Source
Library of Congress
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Copyright info
No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "American National Red Cross photograph collection," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/717_anrc.html