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WW1 - 1914-1918
" Looks of War photographers "
" Regards de photographes de Guerre"
9000 photos
438 pages
CITIES and VILLAGES
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ENJOYMENTS and PAINS
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SIBERIA
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Miss Matthew, one of the four American Red Cross women workers
who went to Omsk, Siberia to fight typhus and starvation among the destitute women amid children
15 August 1919
Photographer : ARC. Maj. Emerson
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Omsk
Amateur geologists.
Boys of the "Petrograd Children's Colony" under care of the Red Cross at Vladivostok, and their collections of Ural mountain stones
11 December 1919
Photographer : ARC. Paris Office
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Vladivostok
Schoolroom operated by American Red Cross for children of refugee barracks at Fortress No. 6. Vladivostok
11 September 1919
Photographer : ARC. Paris Office
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
War-waifs from Petrograd arrive at Vladivostok under Red Cross care.
These are part of the several colonies which the Red Cross has in charge.
Formerly in well-to do families of Petrograd,
they were sent to Siberia to escape Bolshevism and are now homeless.
These are from the Red Cross agricultural colony at Lake Turgoyak
and are part of the 272 brought to Vladivostok by train. Train No. 1 of the "Petrograd Children"
3 October 1919
Photographer : ARC. Siberian Commission
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
The arrival in the railroad yard at Vladivostok of the first American Red Cross train
bearing 300 of the lost children of the Urals,
whom the organization has gathered up and will mother until they can otherwise be cared for.
Full of impatience over this new event in their adventure the youngsters are piling off the train just as American kiddies would do for a look at the city that is to be their home after hardships that would have broken many an adult
3 October 1919
Photographer : ARC. Siberian Commission
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Improvised hospital cars which looked after the minor ailments of the children.
The only serious illness was that of a woman who had fever.
The older girls helped nurse their younger sisters
3 October 1919
Photographer : ARC. Siberian Commission
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
A water-cart stops at the Children's Train and they get water for bathing along the dusty route
3 October 1919
Photographer : ARC. Siberian Commission
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Sturdy youngsters in whom lies the hope of Russia.
This group of boys are under the American Red Cross care at Russian Island, Vladivostok.
They are part of several thousand boys and girls sent from Petrograd to escape famine in 1917-1918 and who were scattered in cities and towns of western Siberia
when the Red Cross extended their aid last winter.
During the summer they were placed in a summer agricultural colony, and when this was menaced (and later taken) by the Bolsheviks, they were brought to Vladivostok
3 December 1919
Photographer : ARC. Siberian Commission
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Refugee children on the steps of the American Red Cross Orphanage at Omsk
4 October 1919
Photographer : ARC. Siberian Commission
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Omsk
School children attending the little school run by the American Red Cross in Omsk for its refugees.
This school already has over 300 pupils
7 August 1919
Photographer : ARC. Siberian Commission
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Group of children saved from Typhus infection by prompt action of American Red Cross
6 August 1919
Photographer : ARC. Siberian Commission
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Dining room in large barracks at Tomsk, Western Siberia, where refugee families are cared for by the American Red Cross.
Children at meal, some of these youngsters were starving when they came into Red Cross Care
2 September 1919
Photographer : ARC. Paris Office
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Tomsk
Great log building which the Tomsk municipality turned over to the American Red Cross
for the housing of refugees.
Several such buildings are operated here by the American Red Cross
4 October 1919
Photographer : ARC. Siberian Commission
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Miss M.M. Bethel and the golden haired imps who think plaster casts are a joke
30 October 1919
Photographer : ARC. Siberian Commission
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Living in rags themselves, they make a happy home for their puppy
September 1919
Photographer : ARC. Siberian Commission
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)