Unattributed “American Relief Admistration. District of Odessa, Medical Division Showing the places where are situated the institutions supplied by the Medic. Department"

Unattributed.  “American Relief Administration.  District of Odessa, Medical Division Showing the places where are situated the institutions supplied by the Medic. Department.”  [Ukraine]. 

1922.  14 x 18.  Manuscript map in ink and watercolor.  Minor chipping along top edge.  Else, very good condition.  A/A

A nicely detailed hand drawn map of the American Relief Administration  (A.R.A.) District of Odessa [Ukraine] showing the locations of all of the various medical facilities in the district in 1922.  A.R.A. was established in 1919 as a relief mission to Europe with Herbert Hoover as program director.  Between 1921 and 1923 the A.R.A. supplied the majority of all relief that went into Russia.  When the program ended, a little under a million tons of food, seed, clothing and medical supplies had been distributed in Russia.  A key to the right indicates the type of medical facilities and below is a scale of miles where one inch equals 30 verst.  A verst is a Russian measurement of length where one verst equals 0.66 miles.