File:The Three Wise Women of Smokovat. 10418v.jpg

English: Title: The Three Wise Women of Smokovat. Three aged Montenegrin women, two of whom are more than 100 years old, were among the 1,500 destitute people who received American cast off garments from the American Red Cross during one day's distribution. Age is much respected in Montenegro and with it is believed to come much wisdom. So these women are supposed to be the wisest in the surrounding country. Despite their five score years they walked twelve miles to receive the Red Cross clothing. The first three men on the left are: Major E.J. Swift, of San Francisco; Lieut. Col. H.R. Fairclough of Leland Stanford University, director of the Red Cross Montenegrin unit, and the Serbian governor of Montenegro at the right with his back to the camera is Captain W.B. Watts, of Macon, Ga., in charge of supplies

Date Created/Published: March 1920 [date received] Medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-anrc-10418 (digital file from original) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "American National Red Cross photograph collection,"(https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/717_anrc.html) Call Number: LC-A6197- RC-85-Bx [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Notes: Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Group title: Personnel, Montenegro. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc

Temp note: Batch 22