Photograph albums of the American Relief Administration efforts in the Soviet Union, Poland, and Hungary.

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Title: Photograph albums of the American Relief Administration efforts in the Soviet Union, Poland, and Hungary.
Creator: Golder, Frank Alfred, 1877-1929
Published / Created: 1921-1922.
Abstract: Photograph albums attributed to Frank Alfred Golder that document the efforts of the American Relief Administration in the vicinity of Samara, Russia, during the Volga Famine, and throughout Poland and Hungary, 1921-1922. Photographic prints show famine victims, including adults and children, and members of the American Relief Administration, as well as soup kitchens, sanitariums, local architecture, agricultural landscape, mountain ranges, and railroads.
Description: Frank Alfred Golder (1877-1929) was a professor of Russian history at Washington State College and Stanford University, as well as a member of the American Relief Administration, a relief mission under the direction of Herbert Hoover and based in the United States and delivered to Europe and later Soviet Russia after World War I.
The majority of the photographic prints measure 7.1 x 10.9 cm. and 9.0 x 11.6 cm.
The photographic prints have few annotations.
Title devised by cataloger.
Extent: 1 album (193 photographic prints) : b & w ; 21.8 x 32.9 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.

Format: still image
Genre: Photograph albums.--aat
Photographic prints
Subject (Geographic): Hungary--Pictorial works
Poland--Pictorial works
Samara (Russia)--Pictorial works
Soviet Union--History--1917-1936--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic): Famines--Soviet Union--Volga River Valley--Pictorial works

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Citation: Frank Alfred Golder, Photograph Albums of the American Relief Administration Efforts in the Soviet Union, Poland, and Hungary. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.