Eye - 05 December 2014

4 Dec 2014 | by Eye

From camels to comfort

Camel and horse team pull a supply cart, Buzuluk warehouse circa 1921-22. | Photo: © 2014 The Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain.

Camels in the catalogues

Fascinating photographs from the archive of the Friends Emergency and War Victims Relief Committee have been given some tender loving care during a recent cataloguing project.

The images show aspects of relief work carried out across Europe and Russia during and after world war one. The relief work was undertaken by the Friends Emergency and War Victims Relief Committee and its predecessors, the Friends War Victims Relief Committee and the Friends Emergency Committee.

Lisa McQuillan, deputy archivist at Friends House library, shared ‘some intriguing highlights’ with Eye.

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