Select 1920s Famine Photos from Ukraine and Russia

    Photo source: Herasymovych, Ivan. 1922. Holod na Ukraïni. Biblioteka Ukraïnʹkoho Slova, Ch. 31. Berlin: Ukr. slovo, p. 143. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.32000004088656&view;=1up&seq;=14

    This is #14 of 17 photographs depicting famine conditions in Ukraine that were mailed by the Ukrainian Red Cross with a separate numbered list in an official envelope date-stamped as arriving in Gene

    Photo source: Information report series published by the Comité International de Secours a la Russie, Haut Commissariat du Dr. Nansen: no. 22: "La Famine en Ukraine, rapport," by Vidkun Quisling. Apr

    Photo source: Information report series published by the Comité International de Secours a la Russie, Haut Commissariat du Dr. Nansen: no. 22: "La Famine en Ukraine, rapport," by Vidkun Quisling. Apr

    Photo source: Information report series published by the Comité International de Secours a la Russie, Haut Commissariat du Dr. Nansen: no. 22: "La Famine en Ukraine, rapport," by Vidkun Quisling. Apr

    Photo source: Herasymovych, Ivan. 1922. Holod na Ukraïni. Biblioteka Ukraïnʹkoho Slova, Ch. 31. Berlin: Ukr. slovo, p. 96. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.32000004088656;view=1up;seq=102 F

    The original photograph is held by: Херсонський обласний краєзнавчий музей (Kherson Regional Museum), Kherson, Ukraine. Please also see Related Features at right for further information and a biograp

    Photo Source: La famine en Russie.III. “Les deux etapes de la faim.” Union internationale de secours aux enfants, Geneva, 1922. (Third in a series of 9 postcards created by the UISE), with text in Fr

    Photo source: Album of Starvation in Povolj'e. Samara, 1921-22. [1922]. Earlham College Archives, Richmond, Indiana. copy from digitized resource. Note: unnumbered pages and photos. Selected photo ap

    Photo source: Gorki, Maxim, Gerhart Hauptmann, and Fridtjof Nansen. 1922. Russland und die Welt. Berlin: Verl. für Politik und Wirtschaft, [unpag.photo section titled: Durch Not und Elend. Originalau

    Source of postcard: Friends Emergency War Victims Relief Committee (FEWVRC) archive. ©Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain. For further evidence of the 1920s origins of this photograph a

    Source of lantern slide shown: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA. Digital collection resource: http://triptych.brynmawr.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/SC_Relief/id/2131/

    Photo source: Bildarchiv [File 68/62/7A]: Bundesarchiv, Koblenz, Germany. A small print of this photograph is part of a collection of Russian famine photos from the Volga region which was in the poss

    Photo source: "La Famine en Russie" one of several postcards published to raise funds for famine relief. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Victims_of_the_1921_famine_in_Russia.jpg#/media/File:V