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Tent used by Jewish refugees from Salonika fire of August 1917, Salonika, Greece

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Description
  • Caption on verso: "Salonika Greece. Tent used by Jewish refugees from Salonika fire of August 1917. The crowding + unsanitary conditions are terrible - rotten tents leak, fall down + giving very little protection from the weather. Club-footed +eye-diseased children in entrance - living amidst filth + disease"
  • Photographer assigned negative number: x204
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Date created
  • 1918 to 1919
Last modified
  • November 30, 2023
Identifier
  • SPEC.RARE.FMR.II.6.1.70
Summary
  • Four children sit or stand in the opening of a tent.
Source Collection
Collection identifier
  • SPEC.RIN.II
Repository
  • Ohio State University. Libraries. Rare Books and Manuscripts Library
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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.
Medium
  • silver gelatin print
Source
  • Digitized from SPEC.RARE.FMR.II.6.1.70, Rinhart Collection II (b2396760), SPEC.RIN.II, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Ohio State University
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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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Extent
  • Print: 13.0 x 10.6 cm
  • Image: 12.3 x 10.0 cm
Credit line: Rinhart Collection II, The Ohio State University, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library

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