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Swapping "Spuds" in Tirana. Trading and fighting are Albania's chief occupations. Here we have them indulging in the animated bargaining so dear to the heart of an Oriental people. If business gets dull, one potato merchant will trade his stock with another. A glimpse at the little merchandise stocks, spread on squares of cloth, reveals the secret of Albania's malnutrition. The country produces little grain or meat; the people must live mainly on vegetables. Into the heart of Albania American Red Cross missions hurried soon after the armistice. These Americans are still doing what they can to better the living conditions of the mountaineer families, where mothers had to be taught how to use soap on the children
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: Markets, Albania.
On caption card: (1/2104)
Used in: T.T. & C.
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 12
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Date
01/01/1920
Location
albania
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "American National Red Cross photograph collection," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/717_anrc.html
