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The American sewing circle in Athens


The American sewing circle in Athens A group of Greek women who work in the sewing rooms established by the American Red Cross in the Greek capital. Athens Greece, 1920. Photograph. www.loc.gov/item/2010648477/, Library of Congress

Tent village in the shadows of the Temple of Theseus


Tent village in the shadows of the Temple of Theseus, Athens, where Greek refugees make thier sic homes. Athens Greece, 1922. Photograph. www.loc.gov/item/2010650546, Library of Congress

Barber's row


A section of "barber's row" Enterprising refugees among the hundreds of thousands of Greeks and Armenians who fled from Asia Minor to Greece have set up stools, boxes, chairs and everything that can be sat on in a long row on the quay in Piraeus, the seaport of Athens, and shave and cut the hair of customers. Athens Greece, 1922. Photograph. www.loc.gov/item/2010650525, Library of Congress

Samples of their footwear


Samples of their footwear - showing the need for American shoes in the Greek camp at Salonica established for Greeks brought from the Caucasus for the purpose of colonizing their rewon province of Thrace American relief agencies are doing their best to provide food, clothing and medical aid for the stricken voyagers. Greece Thessalonik, 1921. Photograph. www.loc.gov/item/2010648481, Library of Congress

Καταυλισμός προσφύγων κοντά στη Γεωργική Σχολή


Aρχείο Αναστασίου Κανελλόπουλου, Φωτογραφικό Αρχείο ΕΛΙΑ/ΜΙΕΤ

Βαλκανικοί Πόλεμοι, Θεσσαλονίκη, 1912-1913


Aρχείο Αναστασίου Κανελλόπουλου, Φωτογραφικό Αρχείο ΕΛΙΑ/ΜΙΕΤ

Ι.Π. Αντωνίου. Γ΄προσφυγικό συσσίτιο Υπουργείου Περιθάλψεως, Μυτιλήνη 1914-1918


Aρχείο Σπυρίδωνος Σίμου, Φωτογραφικό Αρχείο ΕΛΙΑ/ΜΙΕΤ

Refugee child getting her hair washed at Camp Kalamaria


Refugee child getting her hair washed at Camp Kalamaria, Salonica, where ARC feeds 11,000 After a public hair cutting, occasionally ordered by ARC nurse in the interests of cleanliness, everybody ostentatiously washes their hair to prevent similar treatment of them. Greece Thessalonik, 1922. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2010650527/.

Isolation ward maintained at Chios


During the spring months, the ARC anticipating the danger of typhus and other contagious diseases, kept prepared several tents for the purpose of isolating any case that might be found This proved to be a wise precaution, and thanks to such effective means as this, all epidemics were successfully kept down on the Isle of Chios. The above picture shows an isolation ward maintained at Chios. The Red Cross had two such wards, supervised by the American Womens Hospitals. Chios Greece, 1922. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2010650521/.

Self supporting work, making garments for other refugees


Several hundred Refugee Women and Children of Greece were furnished with self supporting work, making garments for other refugees. Over 100,000 garments were made and distributed first two months. Greece. Greece, 1919. [21 August date received] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017669829/.

Interior of old Byzantine church of St. Paraskeve, Salonica


Interior of old Byzantine church of St. Paraskeve, Salonica, showing refugees quartered there. The refugees swarm over the nave, squat at the bases of the pillars burn charcoal firs in the apse, and hang dirty clothes over everything in sigh. This church is over 1,000 years old. Greece Thessaloniki Thessaloniki, 1922. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017680030/.

Along the seashore


Along the seashore. The long height in the distance is Mount Hymettos, famous in antiquity for its honey and its marble. Greece Greece, 1922. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017680041/.