Scutari Albania 1910s Saddle Makers Market Horses Mules Donkeys Bazaar
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Scutari Albania 1910s Saddle Makers Market Horses Mules Donkeys Bazaar. Wouldst Buy a Fine Saddle?. Here is the saddle makers' market in Scutari, Albania. This Photograph is aArchive Quality Reproduction created directly from the original photograph. We use extra thick, stay-flat envelopes to get your photos to you as quickly and as safely as possible. You found it!!! Now buy it!!! Description of PhotographThis is an 8x12 inch Reproduction Photograph made from a high quality scan of the original. When evaluating the quality of the photo, please keep in mind that most photos in our collection were taken over 100 years ago.Wouldst Buy a Fine Saddle? Here is the saddle makers' market in Scutari, Albania. You might just call it the "Transportation Exchange" of this city, which is commercially the center of Northern Albania. The buildings in the background are the Khans or inns, and besides them heaps of pack saddles. Horses, mules and donkeys, saddled ready for riding or for packing, stand in groups ready to return homeward after the bazaar. Albania has no roads of any general usefulness, so the pack animal does most of the transportation work. Here is seen the key to one of the chief difficulties which the American Red Cross has encountered in its relief work in the Balkans since the armistice. The roads are no good for motor transport, and the energetic American must conform himself to the lazy mule transport in his attempt to reach the suffering villages. There are few good ponies nowadays on account of the war; the mules are better but small, and the donkeys are like all of their kind the work over. Some of the American Red Cross "packtrains" in Albania have consisted of nearly fifty animals, and the sum total of their effort is about equal to one small motor camion. The saddles are not unlike the familiar American sawbuck, but more complicated. Their manufacture is really quite smart, so coventionalized that you can scarcely tell one from the other. The pattern is in fact the same from Albania to IndiaJanuary 1920 [date received] Bookmark:2017671021 Bookmark:2017671021SizeApproximately 8x12 inches.Note: Some images may have white bars on the sides or top if the original image does not conform to the 8x12 dimensions.Want to purchase the Original?The original is not for sale.Return PolicyWe are so confident in the quality we provide that we back every order with a money-back guarantee! This means if you are not satisfied, for ANY reason, a refund will be given.(No need to return the photo )QualityThis Photograph is a Archive Quality Reproduction created directly from the original photograph. Our laboratory uses premium DNP Dye-Sublimation Paper guaranteeing brighter colors, sharper whites, and prints that will last a lifetime.ShippingWe have taken extra steps to ensure that your prints arrive to you safely and undamaged. We use extra thick, stay-flat envelopes to get your photos to you as quickly and as safely as possible.Source: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
