Fred Midgley with the orphan ground-guard, Syra 1926
Location
Syra (Syros), Greece
Year
1926
Item Detail
Syra (Syros), Greece, 1926. Fred Midgley stands with an orphan boy who served as the guard controlling passage between the boys' and girls' grounds of the Near East Relief orphanage.
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.
Staff and the Midgleys - These are of the Midgleys and the other Near East Relief staff at Syra, the small American team that ran the orphanage and its farm and looked after the children.
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