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CITIES and VILLAGES

ENJOYMENTS and PAINS

PALESTINE

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Armenian & Syrian refugees waiting at Red Cross camp outside Jerusalem to be "disinfected"

between 1917 and 1919

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Refugees at old Turkish prison, Palestine

A temporary encampment in the squalid and ill-smelling rooms

and balconies of what had been a Turkish prison

15 November 1918

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Armenians at the orphanage, Jerusalem

October 1918

Photographer : H & E, Col. Finley

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Armenian refugees cared for temporarily in old convent in Jerusalem

November 1918

Photographer  : ARC

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Miss Jones Orphanage.

Syrian refugee children cared for by Red Cross by "Miss Jones Orphanage." Jerusalem

1918

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Jerusalem, Davids' tower.

 This tower is just south of the Jaffa Gate

1918

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A refugee family, taken in an olive grove, just outside Jerusalem

1918

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Here the Master came at the end of some of his hardest days in Jerusalem

October 1918 

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Photograph taken recently of Armenian children in the orphanage in Jerusalem

October 1918 

Photographer : H & E, Col. Finley.

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Refugees arriving in straggling fashion through Jerusalem streets,

having abandoned all their possessions to the Turks

October 1918 

Photographer : H & E, Col. Finley.

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Three village children from the Northern front

asking to be received at the Jerusalem Orphanage Shelter

October 1918 

Photographer : H & E, Col. Finley.

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Photograph of Armenian children at the orphanage, Jerusalem, doing physical training exercises

October 1918 

Photographer : H & E, Col. Finley.

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A group of the orphans, Jerusalem.

Father and Mothers had died from Typhus, disentery, Malaria and exhaustion

4 October 1918 

Photographer: H & E, Col. Finley

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Grandmother, mother and three children who have fled on foot from Es-Salt to Jericho

and thence by British motor truck to Jerusalem

1918

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Miss Fisher her helper, and a few of the 600 orphan children receiving in our shelters, Jerusalem and fed and clothed with gifts from the United States

1918

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Bldg. on right is an Armenian church & the crowd is composed of refugees waiting

to be given Red Cross food & supplies.

Jerusalem

1918

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Jerusalem.

Girls and women employed in making clothing for the orphanages and hospitals,

540 women and girls make over 2000 garments per week

28 October 1918

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