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      Williams' caption on back of original photograph: “A ‘brigade’ of ‘voluntary’ office workers from the city endeavoring to make up for the lack of farm workers.” Caption under photo in Answers: “'Volunteer’ harvesters on one of the farms. Many of the peasants are dead or in exile, and large numbers ...

      Williams' caption on back of photograph: “One of the weaker ones whose very life depends on, not the present crop but the present harvest.” Caption under photo in Answers: “A real ‘hunger-marcher’ - a woman, reduced by famine to skin and bones, ‘snapped’ in Soviet Ukraine.”

      Caption under photo in Answers: “Even those who are still at work in Russia, and who, therefore, are entitled to a ration of bread, have to wait – sometimes for hours – in long queues before they can get it.”

      Williams' caption on the back of the photograph: “A little victim of Russian hunger.” Caption under the photo in Answers: "“Factory women passing a tiny victim of famine: a dead child lying on a pavement in Kharkov.”

      Williams' caption on back of photograph: “The wagon of the boy-catcher – gathering up some of the 18,000 boys reported left last winter in Kharkov by their parents.” Caption under photo in Answers: “Police carts gathering up abandoned and starving children at Kharkov.”

      Williams' caption on back of photograph: “Coal miners in Khorlovka, Donetz basin, Ukraine, USSR.” Caption under photo in Answers: “Miners going to work in the Donetz coalfield. Although manual workers are given preferential treatment, their conditions are often desperate.”

      Williams' caption on back of photograph: “The offices of the various Government ‘trusts’ or employing companies in the Republic of the Ukraine, and a traffic cop – everything splendid except that, outside street cars and official autos, there’s no traffic.” Caption under photo in Answers: “The lighter side of Russia ...

      Williams' caption on back of original photograph: “Workers helping to build the aluminium and other plants in Dnieprostroy to use ‘juice’ ready years in advance!” Caption under photo in Answers: “Helping to build an aluminium plant in Dnieprostroy, where great works of various kinds are under construction. Electric power for ...

 Williams, Whiting, 1878-1975, Answers, 1934, 16-17, 28     Williams, Whiting. “My Journey Through Famine-Stricken Russia,” Answers (weekly). London, February 24, 1934, pp.16-17,28. The first of a two-part article series written by US business consultant, Whiting Williams, along with photos he took during his trip to Ukraine in August, 1933.