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
Temp note: Batch 21
Tags
Date
01/01/1919
Location
archangel
Source
Library of Congress
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