Cave-Dwellers. Many victims of the fire of August 1917 at Salonika, unable to find even temporary quarters, have burrowed into the basements, cellars and sub-basements of the burned area. This cellar room houses two families, nine persons.
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Cave-Dwellers. Many victims of the fire of August 1917 at Salonika, unable to find even temporary quarters, have burrowed into the basements, cellars and sub-basements of the burned area. This cellar room houses two families, nine persons.

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Lewis W. Hine

Maker
American, 1874–1940

Cave-Dwellers. Many victims of the fire of August 1917 at Salonika, unable to find even temporary quarters, have burrowed into the basements, cellars and sub-basements of the burned area. This cellar room houses two families, nine persons.

December 1918
Gelatin silver print
17.8 x 23.4 cm.
Gift of the Photo League Lewis Hine Memorial Committee
1977.0175.0105
Inscriptions verso-(rubberstamp) "Lewis W. Hine Interpretive Photography Hastings-
on-Hudson, New York" "Credit Line Photo by Lewis W. Hine" "Not to be
reproduced without permission American Red Cross Paris Bureau of
Photography"
(applied typed label) "X-109. Cave-Dwellers. Many victims of the fire
of August 1917 at Salonika, unable to find even temporary quarters,
have burrowed into basements, cellars and sub-basements of the burned
area. This cellar room houses two families, nine persons."
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