A travel party of relief workers in ACRNE uniforms and service stars halts with covered carts on a road below a bare hill, near Karakilisse (Vanadzor), Armenia.

Location

Karaklis (Vanadzor), Armenia

Year

1919

Context

A. Gertrude Anthony (1873–1967), niece of the suffragist Susan B. Anthony, joined Near East Relief in 1919 and spent that year in the Caucasus, where the Armenian Genocide and the collapse of the Russian front had left tens of thousands of children orphaned and destitute. She traveled the relief routes around Karaklis (Vanadzor) and Etchmiadzin before taking charge of the boys' orphanage at Marsovan in 1921. These photographs come from that first year of service: relief workers in their ACRNE uniforms and service stars, covered carts halted on the mountain roads, and children gathered by the hundreds on the open hillsides where the relief teams reached them.

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  • Holding Institution

    University of California (Bancroft Library)

  • Attribution

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

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  • Notes

    Several women wear relief-worker armbands. Same expedition as the companion cart frames, almost certainly the road between Erivan (Yerevan) and Karakilisse, roughly 100 km north.

A travel party of relief workers in ACRNE uniforms and service stars halts with covered carts on a road below a bare hill, near Karakilisse (Vanadzor), Armenia.