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American Red Cross - Miscellaneous - Red Cross Captain acts as a guide to an Army and Navy officers at famous church of St. Stephens, Immingham, where the Pilgrim fathers worshipped. This church dates back to the 9th Century. A daily bulletin by the American Red Cross to supply home news to Americans is posted every day on bulletin board at the front of the church

One of the country places of the San Faustino family at Chiaravalle on the Adriatic coast, which has been turned over to the American Red Cross as a sewing room for refugees and soldiers' families in the neighborhood. Visiting American Red Cross officer under the flag explaining how the garment should be sewn

Architectural frescoes a La Machine Gun. The white spots on the stately building in his photograph are not defects but show the effect of machine gun fire on the Galician Parliament building during the revolution. The city is quiet now that the Poles have taken possession and the second story window with the nicked statue is the room in which the American Red Cross is directing the relief of the city

American Relief Operations in the near East. An American Red Cross camionette being loaded from a lighter at the docks in Salonica. Thousands of tons of clothing, medicines, and food have been distributed by this organization throughout the Balkans. In the background can be seen part of the ruins of the fire that swept Salonica in 1916. They have remained untouched, all efforts being devoted to the business of war and after the armistice feeding and clothing the destitute which number into millions

Red Cross Headquarters at city market, San Antonio, Texas, after the flood of Sept. 9th. Representatives of the Southwest Div. ARC, hurried to the scene of the disaster and on their advice National Headquarters placed the sum of $20,000 at the disposal of the San Antonio Chapter. Local relief organization was affected with three hundred volunteer workers under Red Cross direction, and embraced the American Red Cross, the American Legion and all church and fraternal organizations in the city

A great crowd gathered about the Red Cross car which announced the signing of the armistice to the Americans at the big base hospital at Darford near London. As the car reached the larger ward buildings there was pandemonium. The man in the wheel chair forgets his aillments, and to the horror of his nurse, jumps up almost too fast for the camera, and rushed over to get one of the little news sheets which the Red Cross messenger is distributing

A group of laborers appear to be cleaning building blocks for later use in the rebuilding of San Francisco. A soldier with a Springfield Rifle 03 is picking up something. On April 18, 1906 at 5:15 AM a quake of 8.25 on the Richter scale hit San Francisco. Greater destruction came from the fires afterwards. The city burned for three days. The combination destroyed 490 city blocks and 25,000 buildings, leaving 250,000 homeless and killing between 450 and 700. Estimated damages, over $350 million

American Red Cross - Headquarters & Buildings - Old church used as American Red Cross Canteen. Church near the front line trenches in France occupied by the American Red Cross. Hot drinks are served to the wounded soldiers as they wait for hospital accommodation

American Red Cross - Supplies - American Red Cross in North Russia. Winter fuel supply for the American headquarters in Archangel. The firewood is being unloaded from Barges by Bolshevik prisoners. The official army photographer, Lt. Chas. I. Reid of Detroit, is seen on top of a wood pile photographing the barges

The saints carved on the walls of a church at Moskopoulis, Albania, recently received a baptism of fire when a quarrel between two tribes broke out in the town. Machine guns were trained on the church and this shows part of the damage that resulted to the ancient frescoes. The riot was stopped by the arrival of an American Red Cross Unit, both sides declaring a truce in order that the Americans might proceed with their relief work in safety

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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.

On caption card: (11555)

Used in: Nation's Business Dec. 13, 1919.

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

Temp note: Batch 11

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01/01/1919
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Albania
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No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "American National Red Cross photograph collection," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/717_anrc.html

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LM Ericssons monter på utställningen i Gefle 1901.

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american red cross albania moskopoulis glass negatives photo church two tribes machine guns cross unit both sides relief work ultra high resolution high resolution world war i wwi ww1 library of congress