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Title: Greece
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Puaux, René, 1878-1937 Brown, Carroll N. (Carroll Neidé), 1869-1938, tr
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Publisher: New York City, Greek Government Exhibition
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Rug made by Greek peasant.
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Embroidery made by Greek women.From collection shown at exhibition. 43 but only five are now inhabited. The GreekGovernment photographs, made by the Swissartist, Frederic Boissonnas, show these bignet bags, carrying a passenger, in the air onthe way to the Monastery on its rock pillar,while others show the station at the topwhere the landing is made. Another famous and picturesque elevatedmonastery is that of the great cave in thePeloponnesus on the side of a mountain overthree thousand feet high. In the great cave,100 feet square, is the holy of holies of themonastery chapel visited by many pilgrims.This is the monastery founded by a shep-herdess. Euphrosyne, with the aid of Simeonand Theodore of Salpniki. The monks ofGreece are strong nationalists and it wasthe monks of the Monastery of the GreatCave who repulsed the Egyptians in the greatrevolution of 1827. Moderx Greek Embroideries. In the Greek Exhibition at the GrandCentral Palace the continuity of art feelingin Greece from the

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