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WW1 - 1914-1918
" Looks of War photographers "
" Regards de photographes de Guerre"
9000 photos
438 pages
CITIES and VILLAGES
ENJOYMENTS and PAINS
SERBIA
page 5
Serbia
Some inhabitants of Monastir calling at the Depot of the American Red Cross set up
in an old shelled building, for their rations of bread, lard and other food stuffs sent
from the United States to check the starvation in Southern Serbia.
Each of the Inhabitants is given two pounds loaf of bread,
a pound of rice, beans, and sugar each week.
Picture shows lard ration
21 August 1919
Photographer : ARC. Balkan Comm
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
"Spilling the beans" in Serbia.
Two war orphans serving American bean rations to their fellow country people at Monastir, Serbia.
These two girls at the side of the bean box are being cared for
at the American Red Cross Orphanage.
They assist in the relief work as shown here
11 September 1919
Photographer : ARC. Paris Office
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
"Spilling the beans" in Serbia.
Two war orphans serving American bean rations to their fellow country people at Monastir, Serbia.
These two girls at the side of the Bean box are being cared for
at the American Red Cross Orphanage.
They assist in the relief work as shown here
10 September 1919
Photographer : ARC. Paris Office
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Lard donated by the Chicago chapter of the A.R.C. being distributed in Monastir, Serbia
3 September 1919
Photographer : ARC
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Bread made Minneapolis, flour being distributed to Serbia's poor.
This is the first time since the beginning of the war that these people have tasted white bread
3 September 1919
Photographer : ARC.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
A brave little rooster walking down the bread line that formed in front of
the American Red Cross station at Monastir, Serbia, a rooster took a big chance.
Note the attention that he is getting from the people despite the fact that they are being photographed by an "Amerykanski".
Many of these people have walked over mountain roads for clothing, medicine and food, which
the Red Cross distributed throughout the Balkans
9 December 1919
Photographer : ARC. Paris Office
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Hundreds of refugee families are now occupying the trenches vacated by the soldiers in the Balkans.
This shows the interior of one of the dugout homes after it has been plastered
with baked mud and straw and whitewashed.
Much of the American Red Cross medical efforts are directed among these poor people,
whose children are far from healthy under such living conditions
4 December 1919
Photographer : ARC. Paris Office
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
A typical Serbian kitchen.
This picture was taken in the A.R.C. hospital at Monastir.
The stove is made of stone.
The dark holes are used for drying the wood.
The box-like affair on the top is the oven.
A fire is built in it and when it becomes hot, the coals are raked out
and the food placed in to bake from the heat of the stones.
Special diets for the patients are prepared as well in this crude affair
as in the best ranges in America.
The three men in the picture are the three Serbian cooks, who work under American direction
19 July 1919
Photographer : ARC. France
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Agricultural Unit, A.R.C. in Serbia
26 November 1918
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Serbian Army in the field.
It was in country such as this that offensive was launched
14 February 1919
Photographer : ARC. Comm. to Serbia
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
American tractors in Serbia.
The American Red Cross has thirty farm tractors tilling the soil in southern Serbia.
These modern machines are proving a great boon to the Serbian Farmers who have been
wothout agricultural implements for four years and whose land has been idle
for want of the plough all during the war
12 August 1919
Photographer : ARC.Balkan Com
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
American tractors in Serbia.
The American Red Cross has thirty farm tractors tilling the soil in southern Serbia.
These modern machines are proving a great boon to the Serbian Farmers
who have been wothout agricultural implements for four years and whose land
has been idle for want of the plough all during the war
12 August 1919
Photographer : ARC.Balkan Com
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
American tractors in Serbia.
The American Red Cross has thirty farm tractors tilling the soil in southern Serbia.
These modern machines are proving a great boon to the Serbian Farmers
who have been wothout agricultural implements for four years
and whose land has been idle for want of the plough all during the war
12 August 1919
Photographer : ARC.Balkan Com
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
American Farm machinery in Balkans.
One of the American Red Cross agricultural camps in Serbia.
The American tractors can be seen in the background. As all the livestock was slaughtered
or carried off by the enemy. Serbia would have been in a bad way this year if it had not been for
the prompt arrival of American agricultural implements.
Red Cross instructors have taught Serbian soldiers how to operate these machines
31 October 1919
Photographer : ARC.Paris Office
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Reaping with a bayonet.
Bereft of all Agricultural Implements by the invading armies,
the peasants of Serbia harvest their crops with what tools they can obtain.
This shows a man and his wife cutting grain with small sickles.
The man fashioned his from a bayonet.
To aid Serbia in planting and harvesting the American Red Cross sent 1,000,600 worth
of Agricultural machinery into the country and taught the Serbs
how to use these modern contrivances
9 December 1919
Photographer : ARC.Paris Office
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Typical barge on the Danube.
On such barges hundreds of tons of American Red Cross supplies have been transported
to stations along the river.
The women are delivering milk from Slovenia to Belgrade
29 September 1919
Photographer : ARC. Paris Office
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Market Day, Prizrend.
Photo by the American Red Cross
12 November 1919
Photographer : ARC. Paris Office Lt. P.J.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
The cart Jack built for Jinny.
Jack the boy driver of the above vehicle was left a Jinny by his father.
So he and his little brother built a cart which would enable them to drive their mother
to town with the Farm produce.
The cart appeared in front of the American Red Cross Hospital on morning
with the Mother on a bed of straw.
She was ill with Typhus.
Everyday the boys drove in to see her in this little wagon.
The picture was taken on one of these trips
9 December 1919
Photographer : ARC. Paris Office
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)