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CITIES and VILLAGES

ENJOYMENTS and PAINS

SERBIA

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Serbia

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salonika aupperle harold typhus belgrade guerre mondiale ww1 red cross serbia serbie уништење, глад, светски рат, рат 14-18, амерички, црвени крст

Captain Harold V. Aupperle and Jewish money changer at Salonika

23 August 1919

Photographer : ARC.

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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In far off Serbia.

Graves of Americans who died while carrying on relief work of America

were not forgotten on Decoration Day even in far away Serbia.

This picture shows the grave of Capt. Harold V. Aupperle of the American Red Cross,

formerly of Junction City, Colorado, who died at Nova Varosh, Serbia on June 14, 1919,

while engaged in relieving the suffering of that country.

Red Cross workers and Serbians united in placing flowers and flags upon the grave

28 August 1920

Photographer : ARC. Paris Office

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Carl Randan & Capt. Aupperle in Monastir.

A Minaret working a Mohammedan mosque, in the rear.

These minarets have an interior circular stairway & several times daily a "Muezzin"

or priest climbs up and shouts a Jew prayer from the little balcony

23 August 1919

Photographer : ARC.

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Capt. Harold V. Aupperle with French and American Officers an famous Pisodir Pass leading over mountains from Monastir Plain to South Albania

23 August 1919

Photographer : ARC.

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Capt. Harold V. Aupperle and French Officer

23 August 1919 

Photographer : ARC. Paris Office

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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On a hillside by the Danube lies two Americans who made the supreme sacrifice

in fighting the disease epidemics which were sweeping the Balkans.

This shows a group of American Red Cross Officers decorating the grave of Dr. MaGruders.

A Red Cross man who went to Serbia in 1915 and succumbed to Typhus while fighting the Epidemic.

To the left is the grave of Capt. Harold Aupperle, who died of Typhus

while fighting the epidemic of 1919

19 December 1919

Photographer : ARC. Paris Office

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Dr. Marie Hyndmon, Dentist with American Women's Hospital,

Unit of the American Red Cross in Serbia

23 April 1919

Photographer : ARC Gertrude Brugman

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Dr. Dora Bowman

Director of the American Women's Hospital Unit of the American Red Cross in Serbia.

Dr. Bowmen is a distinguished surgeon

April 1919

Photographer : ARC.

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Left to right:

Doctors

Marjorie Burnham,

Katherine C. Cook,

Sara Foulks,

Alberta Greene,

Marion Stevens (dentist),

Lulu Hunt Peters,

Harriet M. Gervais,

Mary H. Elliott,

Marie Hyndman (dentist).

Nell Bartram,

Dora E. Bowman (Chief of the Unit)

This Unit is going to Serbia to assist the Red Cross there,

in combatting sickness and disease that is ravishing the land

April 1919

Photographer : ARC.

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Dr. Marion Stevens,

who was for one year with the American Red Cross in France

and is now one of the Dentists on the American Women's Hospital Unit of the American Red Cross

in Serbia.

 The man standing is her brother who is in the U.S. Navy

April 1919

Photographer : ARC.

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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American dentists in Monastir. Captain Frank L. Adams of West Tampa, Fla.

is doing the first dental work for a Serbian Soldier.

This dental workshop which is maintained by the American Red Cross has a steady stream of calls from Serbians who are curious to have their teeth examined for the first time in their lives

2 September 1919

Photographer : ARC. Serbian Comm

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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American dentists in Monastir. Captain Frank L. Adams of West Tampa, Fla.

is doing the first dental work for a Serbian Soldier.

This dental workshop which is maintained by the American Red Cross has a steady stream of calls from Serbians who are curious to have their teeth examined for the first time in their lives

2 September 1919

Photographer : ARC. Serbian Comm

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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American dentists in Belgrade.

Capt. John E. LaBonte, of Webster, Mass. maintains an American Red Cross dental hut in Belgrade, where he has been decorated with the order of St. Sava, a Serbian Military and Civil decoration

2 September 1919

Photographer : ARC. Serbian Comm

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

labonte guerre mondiale ww1 red cross serbia serbie уништење, глад, светски рат, рат 14-18, амерички, црвени крст

American dentists in Belgrade.

Capt. John E. LaBonte, of Webster, Mass. maintains an American Red Cross dental hut in Belgrade, where he has been decorated with the order of St. Sava, a Serbian Military and Civil decoration

2 September 1919

Photographer : ARC. Serbian Comm

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Americans in Belgrade.

Group of American Red Cross workers in the beautiful gardens of the Bulgarian Legation in Belgrade.

They are left to right:

Dr. George Racicet-Webster, Mass.

Miss Lillian Quinn, Chicago.

Dr. LaBonte, Webster, Mass.

Miss B. Corcoran of New York,

Dr. Chaunkoff, of New York,

Major James A. Mills of New York,

Miss L. Martini of San Francisco,

Captain Harry Frantz, of Riverbank, California

2 September 1919

Photographer : ARC. Serbian Commission

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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martini guerre mondiale ww1 red cross serbia serbie уништење, глад, светски рат, рат 14-18, амерички, црвени крст

American women in Serbia.

Miss Mabel Martini of San Francisco who stands at the left front of the group has trained

all others, Serbian women, in the work of the First Aid and making garments

for the stricken people of unhappy Serbia.

She presides over the American Red Cross workrooms in Belgrade where Serbian Women

turn out hospital garments on American sewing machines which have been brought

to Serbia especially for this work

3 September 1919

Photographer : ARC. Comm. to Serbia

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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American women in Serbia.

Miss Mabel Martini of San Francisco who stands at the apex of the group has trained all the others, Serbian women, in the work of First Aid and making garments

for the stricken people of unhappy Serbia.

She presides over the American Red Cross work

3 September 1919

Photographer : ARC. Comm. to Serbia

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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What Cupid Did in Belgrade.

 The obviously newly weds, standing rear rank, are

Herbert O. Robinsons of Betterton,

Md. and Mrs. Robinson who was Miss Stella Kinnamon, of Hutchinson, Kas.

Mr. Robinson is controller of the American Red Cross Commission to Serbia,

and Miss Kinnamon was his assistant,

so it didn't take Cupid long to sign them up for life.

Here they are being given a wedding breakfast, in a park near Belgrade,

by some American Red Cross friends.

From left to right,

Miss Clara Lewis of Chipewa Falls, Wis.;

Capt. C.S. Payne, of Grand Rapids, Mich.;

Lt. Thomas W. Ward, of Salina, Cal.;

Col. H.R. Fairclough, of Leland Stanford University;

and Col. Edward G. Hume, of Frankfort, Ky.

Sitting,

Capt. W.W. Eaton, of Columbus, Ohio;

Miss Lillian Quinn, of East Chicago, Ill.;

Capt. Mabbett of the American Relief Administration

and Miss Iride Martini of San Francisco, Cal.

January 1920

Photographer : ARC. Paris Office

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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