Armed U.S. Army guard patrols as local Russian workers unload bags of flour from cargo ship into horse-drawn carts (Droshkys) at Archangel, Russia, during the Allied North Russia Intervention in World War 1. Carts are driven to the opposite side of the pier where men and women unload them and slide them down narrow planks to women in small boats. Some Russian women pose for the camera, in their boats. View of two small boats laden with flour, being rowed, and also having some sails raised. A woman has some difficulty rowing a dory filled with flour bags. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
As a contingent of U. S. soldiers presents arms, American Red Cross Captain Wynn and U.S. Army Captain, Hall, raise a United States flag and a Red Cross flag over a hospital in Arkhangelsk (Archangel) Russia during the Allied North Russia Intervention of world War 1. Russian nuns (nurses) who staff the hospital, at Troitsky Avenue, near Olga barracks, take part in the ceremony. View of U.S. Army band marching down a street with their instruments as local children and villagers look on. (Note: This flag-raising constituted an act of defiance by U.S. Red Cross and Army medical personnel, since British medical authorities had opposed starting an American hospital in Archangel. It became the first Red Cross Hospital there, that was jointly staffed by Russian and American Red Cross nurses. Captain Wynn,with the American Red Cross, equipped the hospital, and American Army Captain Hall and Lieutenant Kiley administered it.) (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Russian women and a few men, work together to remove stumps from a field in Archangel (Arkhangelsk) Russia, where trees were recently harvested for lumber. They dig with picks and shovels and uproot a stump. Then a group of about 25 women works in unison to roll the huge stump away. An American soldier stands nearby as they work. [Footage from the United States Army 85th Division, 339th Infantry, American Expeditionary Force North Russia, participating as part of the Triple Entente forces, in the so-called "Polar Bear Expedition." Two thirds of the soldiers were from Michigan.] (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Russian children bundled up against the cold, pose on a pier at Archangel Russia, as U.S. sodiers of the 339th Infantry arrive during the Allied North Russia Intervention of World War 1. One child holds a container of milk bottles. An American soldier gives each child a coin. A Russian girl wearing a hooded coat over her dress and leggings, eats a biscuit. A Russian boy, wearing boots, picks up something from the pier. Another boy holds a container of milk bottles. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
U.S. soldiers, of the American Expeditionary Force North Russia (AEFNR) visit an outdoor market, during the Allied North Russia Intervention of World War 1. Primarily from the 339th Infantry Regiment, they examine goods for sale. Some show interest in mittens and gloves. Local people are also customers at the market. A horse-drawn wagon brings barrels of liquid into the marketplace. A small Russian girl stands near American soldiers as they shop. Local people make purchases from a food vendor. An American soldier purchases a pair of mittens. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
U.S. soldiers of 339th Infantry during the Allied North Russia Intervention (AKA the Polar Bear Expedition) at Archangel ( Arkhangelsk) Russia., in World War 1. U.S. soldiers and sailors ride on a streetcar, operating on a main street in the city of Archangel. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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