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English: Title: Water five cents a glass ... normal water supply of Constantinople is impure and water from deep cisterns is sold at five cents a glass. All except the very poor are glad to pay that for army life has taught them that typhoid and other diseases areise [sic] from drinking impure water ... picture shows Major James A. Mills of New York filling his glass from the pail of water peddler in the Stamboul quarter of Constantinople. Abstract/medium: 1 photographic print.
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  • Filed in: Turkey General.
  • Title from item.
  • No. RC-1528.
  • Sign on carpet shop window reads: "Stepan Mardiguan fils", possibly and Armenian owned business.
  • On mount: Turkey.
  • Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.
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prints and photographs division
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turks · commerce · turkey · istanbul · americans · military service · street vendors · water · photographic prints
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istanbul
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Turkey--Istanbul

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