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
Summary
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Group title: Russia.
Data: Syracuse Post Standard. 19193 Credit R.C. Mag. March 4th.
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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