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Volume VII: Europe, including Russia

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 1-3

Scope and Contents

The photos in this album were taken in Europe, 1918-1922. Some of the information for this album includes:

Paris, 1918. These photos are mostly taken of tourist sites, including Notre Dame, Champs-Elysées, Cathedral of Sacre-Coeur, Luxembourg Gardens, and Chartre.

Vienna, 1919. These photos are of sites, including the largest market Vienna, Belvedere Palace, warehouses, and Meidling Hospital, St. Stephen's Cathedral, Ruins at Schönbrunn, the old Kaisers summer home, the Parliament Building.

Eastern and southern Poland, Hungary, Germany (Frankfurt, Berlin and Hindelberg).

Russia, 1922. These photos concentrate on a food caravan, which went from Alexievka to Matvievsky (or Matveivska). Other locations include, Sorotchinskoe, Gerasimovka [Gerasimova], Buzuluk, Totskoe. Some names include M.E.W., Morosky Mucha André, P.K.A., Lampson, Poilya, Douchya, D. North, Ervina, and Tartar.

There is a section titled "Société des amis [Society of Friends] - Troyes," which includes charity work and portraits and candid photos of people, which are largly labeled with names. Names include: Matilde, Agnes, Macfarlane, Mme. Gallois, Canby, Dorothy [Wright], Paul Mauger.

There is a section which includes pictures of "a 100 mi. trip," which included scaling Mont Blanc. This section, too, includes labeled pictures of people. Names include: Weston, Nell Connah, Mary Kelsey, Ted Tawell, and B.I. Macalpine, Therese, Travis, T.E. Harvey, Dr. Earp, Steve, and Dick [Kilby].

Names from other parts of the album include: Chandlee [or Chandler?], Li Hammer, F.E. Bates, Mme. [Edith] Moon, Herbert P. Hol[ure], Thomas H. Philips, J.H.S., W[al]ter, Margaret Louise [Hackecle] (a child: neice?), J. Borlow, R. Clark, Mabel Evans, E. Montford, May Hargrave, [Juna] and Will Eves, Mac Corwell, Bob Taylor, E.G.G., Mrs. Horst, Caroline, Alfred G. Scattergood, L. Ebert, Mary Norton Allen, Edmund Cooper, and Murray Kentworthy, R. Walts.

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research use.

Extent

580 items

Arrangement

This volume had different titles, but for the sake of consistency it is now Volume VII. There were blank pages after 23, between 34 front and back, after 58, (two blank pages) after 71, after 74, and 80. Folder 1 includes sheets 1-30. Folder 2 includes sheets 31-60. Folder 3 includes sheets 61-86.

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