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Kalamaria barracks, build to house the refugees from the fire of 1870, Salonika, Greece

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  • Rinhart Collection II, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, The Ohio State University

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Title
  • Kalamaria barracks, build to house the refugees from the fire of 1870, Salonika, Greece
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Date Created
  • 1918 to 1919
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Description

Summary
  • View looking down over the roofs of the buildings in a dense community.
Description
  • Photographer assigned negative number: x269
  • Caption on verso: "Salonika Greece. Kalamaria Barracks, built to house the refugees from the fire of 1870. Above 6000 persons are said to live in this settlement, which is 5 times the number originally intended, due to the crowding in of people made homeless by the great fire of August 1917"
Provenance
  • The Hine photos form part of the second collection purchased from Floyd and Marion Rinhart, who bought the set from Paul Couper. He acquired them from Ada C. Booth, widow of Capt. L.R. Booth, a member of the Allied Red Cross delegation in Europe.

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Item Identifier
  • SPEC.RARE.FMR.II.6.1.92
Collection Identifier
  • SPEC.RIN.II
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Source
  • Digitized from SPEC.RARE.FMR.II.6.1.92, Rinhart Collection II (b2396760), SPEC.RIN.II, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Ohio State University

Additional Details

Extent
  • Print: 12.9 x 10.6 cm
  • Image: 12.4 x 10.1 cm
Medium
  • silver gelatin print
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  • This item, made available for research and educational purposes, may be protected by copyright; the user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status.

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