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Armenian Christmas 6 January 1920 in Mezreh at the Annie Tracy Riggs Hospital Compound
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Armenian Christmas 6 January 1920 in Mezreh at the Annie Tracy Riggs Hospital Compound
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Title
Armenian
Christmas
6
January
1920
in
Mezreh
at the
Annie
Tracy
Riggs
Hospital
Compound
Caption
[Hospital
Court]
Description
"
I
wish
you
could
have
seen
our
Santa
Claus
and his
reindeer
!
We
had the
Christmas
celebration
for the
children
last
Thursday
.
It
was a
bright
day
,
no
snow
for a
couple
of
weeks
,
so
the
ground
was
dry
.
We
had
all
our
2800
kids
come
to the
hospital
yard
. The
performance
was to
come
at
two
, but in the
middle
of the
morning
they
began
to
arrive
. As
we
rode
down
the
hill
after
lunch
we
passed
orphanage
after
orphanage
,
rather
suggestive
of the
deportations
. They
each
had a
place
in the
yard
and an
American
to
welcome
and
stay
with them.
We
had a
Juniper
tree
made
of
several
put
together
,
decorated
with
dyed
spools
, the
ordinary
chains
and
little
baskets
and
lanterns
made
of
canned
food
labels
,
together
with
some
real
trimmings
left
by the
missionaries
. They had
Christmas
songs
by the
various
orphanages
, and a
sham
snowball
fight
by the
kindergarten
kids
. To
warm
them
up
before
the
feature
of the
afternoon
Mr
.
[Gardiner
C.]
Means
got
up
on the
hospital
porch
and
led
off
in
some
exercises
; these
made
a
great
hit
,
literally
as
well
as
figuratively
, for they
didn't
spread
out
enuf
[sic]
to
miss
each
other's
noses
.
Just
as they
got
settled
down
again
the
gates
swung
open
and
Santa
(Mr
.
Riggs
in a
regular
Santa
costume)
dashed(?)
in in a
two-wheeled
ox
cart
drawn
by
four
yoke
of
oxen
. The
cart
was
gaily
decorated
with
bright
red
cloth
and
evergreens
, the
oxen
each
wearing
a
red
and
white
striped
kelim
[kilim
,
pile-less
carpet]
; the
boys
driving
the
oxen
were
swathed
in
sheets
. They
circled
around
the
drive
a
couple
of
times
amidst
the
cheers
of the
children
and
stopped
beside
the
tree
.
Santa
,
after
a
speech
,
got
out
and
pulled
out
a
large
bag
for
each
orphanage
, from
under
the
tree
.
Each
bag
contained
an
unbleached
muslin
handkerchief
full
of
leblebs
[boiled
and
roasted
chick
peas]
,
raisins
and
three
pieces
of
candy
; for
each
child
; a
handkerchief
with
two
cakes
of
soap
in
it
for
each
mairig
["Little
Mother"]
and
quirig
["Little
Sister"]
.
It
was
fun
to
watch
the
different
children
.
Some
tucked
theirs
away
untouched
,
others
opened
and
dove
in,
going
away
with
only
the
empty
handkerchief
. They
searched
out
the
candies
, and
some
started
swapping
red
for
green
,
etc.
,
like
regular
children....We
surely
enjoyed
it
all
even
more
than the
children
.
We
had had
lots
of
fun
filling
all
these
handkerchiefs
too
.
Mac
[Laurence
H
.
MacDaniels]
was
away
so
not
only
missed
seeing
it
, but
could
not
get
a
good
picture.
"
Frances
C
.
MacDaniels
,
letter
to her
parents
,
11
January
1920
,
Series
9
.
Additional
Correspondence
,
Laurence
H
. and
Frances
C
.
MacDaniels
Papers
,
30/276
Date
1920
Creator
Laurence
H
. and
Frances
C
.
MacDaniels
,
graduates
of the
Class
of
1912
of
Oberlin
College
Object Type
Image; first generation black and white photograph
Digital Information
jpeg derivative of original tiff image; HP ScanJet ADF flatbed scanner
Copy Rights
The photographs and drawings provided by the Oberlin College Archives (© Oberlin College Archives) may be downloaded for educational use by Oberlin College and the Oberlin School District. For other uses of Archives' photographs--including reproduction in a brochure, scholarly article or book, or other publication--please seek permission from: Oberlin College Archives (
http://www.oberlin.edu/archive/using/services/application.html
).
Metadata Creators
Abraham D. Krikorian (b. 1937); Eugene L. Taylor (b. 1935)
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,
78
and
79
of
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.
Image Number
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of
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