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ARC in North Russia. The Archangel Cathedral, just across the corner from the ARC headquarters in the center of the city. The picture gives a good idea of the distance which in Russian churches, frequently seperates the bell tower of a church from the church building proper. The bell tower is shown at the extreme edge of the picture. The photograph is taken from the entrance of the Red Cross headquaters, and shows how the back of the church is turned towards the main street, as the front of a Russian church always faces due west, without regard to the street line, and the result is that they are almost always at an odd-looking angle when seen from the street. On the great rear walls fo the church are painted in a primative way certain scenes from Biblical narrative. The church has five towers of peculiar shape but typically Russian character
AMERICAN RED CROSS in North Russia. The Archangel Monastery-Farchangelsky Monastwe. The first Red Cross boat to reach Archangel landed directly in front of this building. The monastery is located in an eight sided stockade with a little block house at each corner. The church is very ancient, and quite the grandest building architecturally in Archangel, with white wall, green tiled roofs, and five big domes covered with sold gold leaf. It is easily the most picturesque of all the domed buildings in North Russia and the big mushroom-shaped domes have a striking appearance as compared with the more slender domes than some of the other churches. The roofs of the block houses and the stockade walls are bright red. This is the church which is most largely used for important funerals which are always superb performances with bands, a hearse built up on the columns with canopoied roof, horeses covered with white lace, and preceded by a procession of priests in gorgeous robes of gold and silver before whom is spread a continuous carpet of evergreen boughs. There is always a band which plays splendidly dignified and solemn funeral marches
American Red Cross - Miscellaneous - American Red Cross in North Russia. A street corner in Archangel showing hygienic conditions which made work of American Red Cross so important and far reaching. Street and house are built on an old swamp, which has never been drained. Only sewers are rough ditches underneath sidwalks, which frequently break under weight of unwary pedestrian who is projected into sewer ditch beneath. Mud in roads is so deep that it is impossible to do any trucking with automobiles on side streets. Main street is paved so poorly trucking is very difficult. Street car runs over six mile route, up main street of city. Fare is sixty kopecks (nominally 35 cents) for each of three "fare stages" and has to be paid in postage stamps
A.R.C. in North Russia. Group of American buildings on the river front at Archangel. The building nearest the camera is the the American Red Cross hosptial, formerly part of an old monastery. The smaller building is the Convalescent hospital. The large building in the distance is the headquarters of the American north Russian Expeditionary force, the old Polytechnic Institute, which is the most imposing building in all Archangel. Piles in an immense pier-like heap on the water front in the winter fuel supply for the Red Cross hospitals. Firewood brought down the river in rafts or barges. The boulevard running along the river front past the hospitals and the American headquarters in the Usponska Prospekt
American Red Cross in North Russia. The largest building in Archangel is the great prison, belonging to the old regime, when prisons were a very vital and important matter in the business of government. It was emptied by the Bolsheviks when they arrived in Archangel, and it is now again filled with Bolsheviks, being used as a barracks for American troops. It was built by the Swedes during their occupation of this part ofhte coast a hundred and fifty years ago. The walls are nine to fifteen feet thick, which is remarkable in a two-story structure, and the windows are barred with irons two inches in diameter, while the doors are all solid iron. Architecturally it is not all so good as the part shown in this picture, which is the court side of the main entrance. The tallest man in the group is the American Assistant Provost Marshal, Lieut. Wron of Detroit, who was in charge of the prison Next to him is Lieut. E.W. Hallowell of Los Angeles, American Red Cross, then the old Russian chief of the prison and his assistant
American Red Cross in North Russia. The garden of the governor's mansion in Archangel. The governor's mansion is now the American embassy, where one or two of the American Red Cross officers have their headquarters. The young Russian boy in the picture is an employee of the Red Cross. He comes from the Russian "middle class" and is very useful as an interpreter, speaking Engllish, Frenchm German and Russian. The Garden House is entered from the walled garden of the mansion. It is typical piece of modern Russian architecture, and has a fine site overlooking a long stretch of the river
AMERICAN RED CROSS in North Russia. A typical street vehicle in Archangel. The Red Cross officers used this method of transportation in practically all their work about town. It is photographed here while waiting for it's passenger outside the Hotel Troitski. The carts are made very light in weight and the shafts are so attached that it is easy for the horse to pull it out of the swamp and mud. Men who are fond of horses always remark on the fact that the Russian loves horses and has got the American horesman beaten on the method of harnessing the animal. The horsehas great freedom of movement, and yet can be easily and perfectly controlled by the driver. An essential part of the harness is the enormous yoke which is always seen at the end of the shafts over the horse's collar. The horses are small but very tough, and they are very well cared for by their owners. It is noticeable that they are practically never blanketed, having become injured to the climate. They can work hard for hours and then stand in a perspiration wihtout seeming to suffer any inconvenience
American Red Cross in North Russia. Winter fuel supply for the American heafquarters in Archangel. The firewood is being unloaded from barges by Bolshevic prisoners. The official arm photographer, Lieut. Charles I read of Detroit, is seen on top of a wood pile photographing the barges. The picture gives a good idea of hte tremendous width of hte Dwina River at Archangel. This great river is two miles wile 160 miles from its mouth. Wood is used exclusively for fuel in Archangel. Considerable quantities of coal are available, but the people prefer wood, which is burned in tall stoves for heating purposes. These retain the heat for 24 hours from one armful of wood. Notice the American sentry on duty near the camera
American Red Cross - Headquarters & Buildings - American Red Cross in North Russia. The largest building in Archangel is a great prison, belonging to the old regime, when prisons were a very vital and important matter in the business of government. It was emptied by the Bolsheviks when they arrived in Archangel, and it is now again filled with Bolsheviks, being used as a barracks for American troops. The tallest man in the group is the American Assistant Provost Marshal, Lt. Wron of Detroit, who was in charge of the prison. Next to him is Lt. E.W. Hallowell of Los Angeles
AMERICAN RED CROSS in North Russia. A "side street" in Archangel. This picture gives a good idea of the shape of Archangel, which is a city six or seven miles long and only a few hundred yards wide. Nowhere is Archangel more than a few hundred yards wide, this being due to the fact that as soon as one leaves the bank of the river, he strikes the swamp and morass, where roads and buildings are well-high impossible. As shown here the swamp pushes right up the street. All the streets are of extraordinary width, and there is only one side walk, which runs through the middle of the street. The roads are abominable morasses of mud the year round and sometimes are almost impassable. The children in the picture are all being fed daily by the AMERICAN RED CROSS at their school
Summary
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Commission to England.
Group title: Russia.
Data: R.C. Mag. March 4th; Atlantic Div. 4/1919
Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
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Date
01/01/1919
Location
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No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "American National Red Cross photograph collection," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/717_anrc.html