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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
SIBERIA
Page 1
Targoyak - Tourgoiak
Petrograd
Saint Petersbourg
Petrograd children.
Healthy and happy youngsters in their box car Pullman
3 October 1919
Photographer : ARC. Paris Office
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Petrograd
Saint Petersbourg
Refugee children from the Petrograd Children's Colony at Turgoyak
4 October 1919
Photographer : ARC. Siberian Commission
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Refugees from Petrograd after the evacuation of the Children's Colony at Targoyak
4 October 1919
Photographer : ARC. Siberian Commission
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Petrograd Children's Colony at Turgoyak, Siberia, maintained by the American Red Cross.
Out to the sampan
20 October 1919
Photographer : ARC. Siberian Commission
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Petrograd Children's Colony at Turgoyak, Siberia, maintained by the American Red Cross.
Red Cross workers checking off the youngsters to see that all are safely out to the barge
20 October 1919
Photographer : ARC. Siberian Commission
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Petrograd Children's Colony at Turgoyak, Siberia, maintained by the American Red Cross.
Miss Moody, Red Cross nurse, is first across the gang plank into the sampan
20 October 1919
Photographer : ARC. Siberian Commission
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Petrograd Children's Colony at Turgoyak, Siberia, maintained by the American Red Cross.
At the bath house after the bath, they bask in the sun
20 October 1919
Photographer : ARC. Siberian Commission
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Petrograd Children's Colony at Turgoyak, Siberia, maintained by the American Red Cross.
This group of five sisters and brothers are orphans and made their way from Omsk to Vladivostok just how no one knows.
The Red Cross found them and is putting them in the newly established children's home
on Russian Island
20 October 1919
Photographer : ARC. Siberian Commission
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Omsk
Vladivostok
Petrograd
Saint Petersbourg
Petrograd Children's Colony at Turgoyak, Siberia, maintained by the American Red Cross.
Their monkey (a la Teddy Bear) and their doll are the most priceless of all their possessions
Second caption
These two little Russian girls are from Petrograd and their teddy bear,
doll and sweater are from Red Cross chapters in America.
The girls are members of colonies of children sent from European Russia to escape famine
under the Bolshevik armies cut them off from hoem say they were taken under the care
of the American Red Cross.
A thousand were brought to Vladivostok in the summer and fall of 1919
20 October 1919
Photographer : ARC. Siberian Commission
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Petrograd
Saint Petersbourg
Petrograd Children's Colony at Turgoyak, Siberia, maintained by the American Red Cross.
Alexandra Kirsanova is ten years old.
She comes from Petrograd and has been one of the "war waifs" of Siberia for nearly two years
20 October 1919
Photographer : ARC. Siberian Commission
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Petrograd Children's Colony at Turgoyak, Siberia, maintained by the American Red Cross.
Laden with their possessions, they go aboard a sampan to be ferried to the waiting barge
20 October 1919
Photographer : ARC. Siberian Commission
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Petrograd Children's Colony at Turgoyak, Siberia, maintained by the American Red Cross.
Bag and baggage, they ride on Russian carts
20 October 1919
Photographer : ARC. Siberian Commission
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Petrograd Children's Colony at Turgoyak, Siberia, maintained by the American Red Cross.
Laden droshkies waiting to start from bath house
where all of the Red Cross refugee children are given the "Siberian Once Over"
20 October 1919
Photographer : ARC. Siberian Commission
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Petrograd Children's Colony at Turgoyak, Siberia, maintained by the American Red Cross.
An early morning ride one more lap of the journey from Petrograd to Vladivostok
20 October 1919
Photographer : ARC. Siberian Commission
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Petrograd Children's Colony at Turgoyak, Siberia, maintained by the American Red Cross.
Waiting for the Red Cross launch to come, on bank above Amur Bay
20 October 1919
Photographer : ARC. Siberian Commission
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)