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CITIES and VILLAGES

ENJOYMENTS and PAINS

PALESTINE

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Dr. Canaan and Dr. Nashat Bey, in the Russian Hospital, Jerusalem

Photo shows Dr. Tawfiq Kan'an (sometimes spelled Kanaan or Canaan), standing at left.

1917

American Colony (Jerusalem). Photo Dept., photographer

G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Dr. Warden, Dr. Hall & Miss Wood. RC Hospital in Jerusalem

26 November 1918 

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Carrying R.C. supplies, R.C. Hospital, Jerusalem

3/8/1919

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Nashat Bey and Red Crescent staff at the English Hospital, Jerusalem

1917

American Colony (Jerusalem). Photo Dept., photographer

G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Jewish community leader Albert Antebi (1873-1919), standing (right front)

at a Bazaar held at Notre Dame de France in aid of the Red Crescent Society

during World War I, Jerusalem

1917

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Photograph, American Colony Nurses and medical staff

Group photograph of American Colony Nurse volunteers with medical staff,

Frederick Vester in dark suit, standing,

and Bertha Spafford Vester in uniform and cap, sitting, center.

 Twenty-nine individuals depicted, women and men.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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British soldiers sewing for the Syrian refugees.

A favorite pastime which has excellent results is the work of the Convalescent soldiers

now recuperating in Egypt.

They are quartered in an old Royal palace now converted into a Convalescent depot.

The men are busily making clothes for the destitute inhabitants of Palestine

between 1917 and 1920

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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American staff in office of American Red Cross Palestine.

Left to right: Meams, Nicol, Chaffee

15 November 1918

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Some of the teaching staff, Syrian Orphanage, American Red Cross, Palestine

15 November 1918

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Corner of one of the nine family sleeping rooms.

Syrian Orphanage, American Red Cross, Palestine

15 November 1918

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Back from Palestine, Col. John N. Finlay of N.Y. ARC. Commissioner for Palestine (in raincoat)

and Major Solomon Lowenstein of N.Y. Deputy Commissioner to Palestine,

photographed at Red Cross headquarter in London on their way back to the United States

to report on the progess of the work in Palestine

where the ARC has been installing a modern water supply for Jerusalem

and assisting in work of restoration and relief

ca. 1918

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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