Group portrait of school or mission staff, mostly women in Western dress, Near East Relief (Gertrude Anthony, back row, fourth from left).

Location

Marsovan (Merzifon), Turkey

Year

c. 1921–1922

Context

A. Gertrude Anthony (1873–1967), niece of the suffragist Susan B. Anthony, served with Near East Relief from 1919 to 1923 and directed the boys' orphanage at Marsovan (Merzifon). The orphanage occupied the campus of Anatolia College, an American missionary school whose buildings and hospital sheltered Armenian and Greek children orphaned by the genocides. Anthony arrived at Marsovan in June 1921, weeks before Topal Osman's irregulars destroyed the town's Greek and Armenian communities that July. She ran the orphanage until the ultimatum of September 1922 forced its evacuation, then led some five hundred children to the coast at Samsun and left Marsovan for good in January 1923. This photograph is a group portrait of the orphanage staff, most of them women in Western dress, with Anthony herself standing in the back row, fourth from left.

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    University of California (Bancroft Library)

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    Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Gertrude Anthony photographs (BANC PIC 1986.006).

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Group portrait of school or mission staff, mostly women in Western dress, Near East Relief (Gertrude Anthony, back row, fourth from left).