HELEN DAVENPORT GIBBONS

1882 – 1960

An American journalist, author.

In 1909 the Gibbons family witnessed the Armenian massacres in Tarsus, Turkey. Later (in 1917) Helen Gibbons wrote a book called “The Red Rugs of Tarsus”—a compilation of her letters describing those events...

Biography

THE RED RUGS OF TARSUS
A Woman’s Record of the Armenian Massacre of 1909

New York: The Century Co., 1917
Published, April, 1917

• James Bryce, Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire
• Maj. General James G. Harbord, Conditions in the Near East: Report of the American Military Mission to Armenia
• Armin Wegner, The Trial of Talaat Pasha: Proceedings
• Rendel J. Harris & Helen B. Harris, Letters from Armenia
• Edwin Munsell Bliss, Turkey and the Armenian Atrocities
• Clara Barton, America's relief expedition to Asia Minor under the Red Cross
• Luigi Villari, Fire and Sword in the Caucasus