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Albanian Ducks Furnish Own Transportation. A scene on the Lake Scutari waterfront at Ryeka, Montenegro. A family is coming to market with a flock of doubts. The ducks swam the entire distance, as there was no room in the boat. They are just going ashore to parade up the main street to the market. The ruins of an old Venetian bridge can be seen in the left background while at the right the week's wash is out to dry. The weekly market day in Ryeka has a double meaning to Albanians peasants now. The American Red Cross relief stations makes its distribution of clothes, food and medicines to the destitute on market day
The Street Life of Scutari. A typical scene in the streets of old Scutari in Albania. The buildings are irregular, lop sided affairs. Cattle, pigs and barnyard fowl mix indiscriminately with the people, whose dress was strongly Oriental. But now an Occidental note is creeping into it, due to the country's complete dependence for its first clothes in five years upon America. For the first year the American Red Cross has been distributing used garments among the ragged and wretched of the country
When the Day's Work is Done. Opposite the American Red Cross relief station at Ryeka, Montenegro, the farmers from the upper end of Lake Scutari moor their queer little boats when they come to market. And when they have exchanged all of their own produce for articles of more use to them they come back to their skiffs and wait for the day to get cooler before poling their boats back home. Very little money changes hands nowadays in Montenegrin markets. They are back to the primitive trading methods exchanging these articles of which they have many for those of which they have none. The Red Cross station can be seen in the background with an American supply truck drawn up before the door
The Street Life of Scutari. A typical scene in the streets of old Scutari in Albania. The buildings are irregular, lop sided affairs. Cattle, pigs and barnyard fowl mix indiscriminately with the people, whose dress was strongly Oriental. But now an Occidental note is creeping into it, due to the country's complete dependence for its first clothes in five years upon America. For the first year the American Red Cross has been distributing used garments among the ragged and wretched of the country
Hoss Trading Days Revived. One of the livestock markets in Montenegro during a busy hour. Business is done in true Oriental fashion, the traders letting the prospective purchaser make the first approach. No effort is made to drum up trade it's not the Montenegrin way. This livestock is driven in for miles and respresents about all that the invading army left in the district. The shortage of cows proved serious to infant welfare of the country. American doctors and nurses finding thousands of undernourished women and children. To meet this emergency the Red Cross distributed tons of condensed milk and food along with its other relief supplies
Village Smithy Has Many Trades. A typical village blacksmith's shop in Podgoritza, Montenegro. The smithy in the Balkans is a jack of all trades. He pulls teeth, grinds the family knives, mends watches, repairs ploughshares and shoes, oxen, donkeys and horses. The people seated about his shop are peasants who are waiting for repairs to their farm implements. They are possessed of but one ploughshare or hoe and when it breaks they must hold up their work until it is repaired. This condition illustrates the reason why Balkan war reconstruction is slow. There are few tools to work with. The only aid received so far has been from America, the Red Cross bringing in a million dollars worth of modern farm machinery to sow and harvest the crops, meanwhile giving out clothing, food, and medicine in order that the people might live
Mentenegrin Markets Barren of Food. Podgeritza's market place and the familiar town pump in the center of the square. There is little to be brought these days at the markets of Montenegro for little is produced in this devastated country where the best man-power has been lost through the war and where the heavy labor has been left entirely left to women, already overburdened and weakened with hunger. But for the intervention of the American Red Cross and the timely support of the Juniors of America in furnishing supplies of food, clothing and medicines Montenegro would doubtless be today a land of the dead
Bringing home the cows. American soldiersm convalescent patients at the big Salisbury Hospital near Southampton, England are learning farming on the 186-acre farm attached to the Hospital. The photograph shows some of the prize Jerseys and Guernseys, sixty of which were given to the American Red Cross by the Farmers of the Islands of Jersey and Guernsey. At one side of the picture are seem some of the trees of the Hospital Farm Orchards, while beyond, over the tops of the trees, are seen the roofs of the Farm Greenhouses
Grain Sellers in Scutari Bazaar. The duty of Scutari is the principal market town of Albania. Since the war cut off Albania's communication to the east and south, all north Albania has had to look to Scutari for a market. Here is seen the grain market. On the right a row of grain sellers squat behind open sacks. Beyond them under the plane tree sit country folk with little piles of garden produce. Market days are the busy days for the American Red Cross dispensary in Scutari. The country folk, coming to town with their slender stocks of produce, bring also their sick for treatment, and patients have frequently arrived by ox carts from distances of twenty or thirty miles
Market Day at Ryeka. This picturesque scene at the northern end of Lake Scutari is repeated every week when market day is held. Poling their queer little boats along the shores, the peasant people come from the foothills with their produce and livestock. Sheep, pigs, and goats are carried in these frail looking craft along with the children. Most of the business is done by trading one article or animal for anther with very little actual money changing hands. Clothing is one of the articles that is rarely dealt in, it is so scarce. But the American Red Cross has established a relief station at this little trading post and all these who are ragged are given cast off American garments
Summary
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Paris Office.
Group title: Transportation, Montenegro.
On caption card: (1/1518)
Used in: Mg. Bureau Excl. indef.
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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library of congress
Date
01/01/1920
Location
montenegro
Source
Library of Congress
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