Syra (Syros), Greece, 1926-1928. A panorama of the Near East Relief American Orphanage, its long buildings spread among the island's barren hills above Hermoupolis.
Context
Fred and Carrie Midgley of Worcester, Massachusetts, served with Near East Relief on the island of Syra (Syros), Greece, from 1926 to 1928, Fred as agricultural director at the orphanage. The institution sheltered some 1,400 Armenian and Greek children orphaned by the genocides and the 1922 destruction of Smyrna (İzmir). The Midgley papers were given to the Near East Foundation by their granddaughter, Nancy Winter Taylor, and are held at the Rockefeller Archive Center.
Orphanage and Island - These are views of the orphanage buildings and grounds and of the harbor town of Hermoupolis below, where the children lived and worked.
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