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The Great War resulted in six million orphans across Europe.Created by: PICRYL - Public Domain Media Search EngineDated: 1919
American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) encountered a multitude of orphaned children when they joined the war in 1917.

Grassroots orphans’ relief efforts sprang up in France as early as 1914. A 1916 advertisement in The New York Times stated that in August of 1914, a group of drafted factory workers demanded that an organization should be formed to care for their potentially parent-less children. This first charity was founded by M. Vilta, the head of the Paris Université Populaire. It was known as the Association Les Orphelins de la Guerre, War Orphans’ Association.

In 1915, the CNSA (National Relief and Food Committee) created the Oeuvre nationale des orphelins de guerre (National war orphans charity) in order to help children who had lost their parents due to the war. This section was created with the support of the very active Commission For Relief in Belgium (CRB). Across the Atlantic ocean, they were supported by a broad network of charitable donors and private citizens including philanthropist William D. Guthrie, Catholic Archbishop John Cardinal Farley, US Supreme Court Chief Justice Howard Douglass White, and French ambassador William H. Sharp, the American Society for the Relief of French War Orphans, which solicited funds from Yale University.

In August of 1914, a group of New York-based philanthropists, and several former French residents including August F. Jaccacci, Mrs. Cooper Hewitt and Frederick René Coudert Jr. began the most wide-reaching orphans’ relief organizations, the Franco-American Committee for the Protection of Children of the Frontier. The Committee was assisted by the Service de Transport France-Amerique, a shipping service for transferring goods across the ocean to help the French.

The Committee spread and advertisements printed in publications like the Chicago Tribune. Funds collected from the solicitation on the orphans’ behalf by the American public through the advertisements paid for ophan’s care and education that reportedly cost “16 cents a day.”

In addition to relief agencies’ fundraising campaigns, the US Red Cross hosted several large-scale Child Welfare Expositions in Saint Etienne, Lyons, and Marseilles in 1917.

By December 1, 1917, the Franco-American Committee for the Protection of Children of the Frontier recorded that they had aided 1,365 children. Despite the war environment, most of the children in American Red Cross photographs appear to be calm and well-fed despite their uprooting and the horrors that they may have witnessed. On April 12, 1918 Stars and Stripes newspaper reported that 38 children were adopted by Infantry companies.

The Great War resulted in six million orphans across Europe.
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Enfants adoptes, Yvonne Laurange (?)

Enfants adoptes, Yvonne Laurange (?)

Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Adopted children. Date based on date range for negative series. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the American ... More

Adopted girl, Madeleine Lacour - Public domain portrait photograph

Adopted girl, Madeleine Lacour - Public domain portrait photograph

Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Coles. [Henri A. Coles] Group title: Adopted children. Date based on date range for neg... More

Enfant adopte, Andre Petit, 8 yrs. old

Enfant adopte, Andre Petit, 8 yrs. old

Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Miss Perrin. Group title: Adopted children. Date based on date range for negative serie... More

Enfants adoptes, Boyle - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Enfants adoptes, Boyle - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: M. Guerin. Group title: Adopted children. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 ... More

Adopted children. Maurice Norzier

Adopted children. Maurice Norzier

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Colin [Joseph A. Collin] Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General... More

Adopted children, Lucienne Barbarou

Adopted children, Lucienne Barbarou

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Coles. [Henri A. Coles] Group title: Adopted children. Reproduction. Gift; Americ... More

Adopted children, Marcel Cazier

Adopted children, Marcel Cazier

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Coles. [Henri A. Coles] Group title: Adopted children. Gift; American National Re... More

Adopted children series, Armand Aubrien

Adopted children series, Armand Aubrien

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Coles. [Henri A. Coles] Group title: Adopted children. Reproduction. Gift; Americ... More

Edith Lelievre. Address: Beaumont-en auge (Calvados) protege of Staff Officers, A.S.R.C.B. #3 B.8. # cp Lt. Leachman, Officer in Charge W.O. Fund. American Expeditionary Forces

Edith Lelievre. Address: Beaumont-en auge (Calvados) protege of Staff ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Group title: Adopted children. France. Gift; American National Red Cross 194... More

Pierre Dupas. Address: Grez-Neuville par le Lion d'Angers (Maine ot Loire) protege of: Co. B., 301 Military Police, co Co. Clerk, American Expeditionary Forces

Pierre Dupas. Address: Grez-Neuville par le Lion d'Angers (Maine ot Lo...

Caption from negative sleeve: Pierre Dupas, adopted. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Mr. Coles [Henri A. Coles] D... More

Marcel Faussurier. Address: Hameau du Chateau par Ornan (Doubs) protege of: Officers, 4th Artillery, Aerial Observation School, Camp Meucon, APO 779, American Expeditionary Forces

Marcel Faussurier. Address: Hameau du Chateau par Ornan (Doubs) proteg...

Caption from negative sleeve: Marcel Taussurier, adopted. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Mr. Coles [Henri A. Col... More

Salvaging Vienna's Children. Vienna doctors, encouraged by aid from the Red Cross, are fighting a gallant battle against the inroads of tuberculosis. In the Kinder Klinik, which is conducted by Dr. Clement von Pirquet, tuberculosis expert and founder of the Children's Hospital at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, the boys and girls are given sun baths to hasten their recovery from tuberculosis complaints. Here are half an acre of children absorbing the life giving qualities of sunlight. The first aid these sick Viennese children received came from the boys and girls of the Junior Red Cross

Salvaging Vienna's Children. Vienna doctors, encouraged by aid from th...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Paris Office. Group title: Austria, children. On caption card: (1/2012) Used ... More

Adopted children series. Jean Byle

Adopted children series. Jean Byle

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Adopted children. Date based on date range for negative series. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about th... More

Adopted children, Hourdan - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Adopted children, Hourdan - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Coles. [Henri A. Coles] Group title: Adopted children. Gift; American National Re... More

Henri Piot, adopte - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Henri Piot, adopte - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Coles. [Henri A. Coles] Group title: Adopted children. Reproduction. Gift; Americ... More

Orphans from the Dartford asylum participate in a little Christmas festivity. They are the guests of the American soldiers at the big American base hopital at Dartford, near London, and the soldiers have a present for each orphan, each present distributed by a life-like American Santa Claus. The solider on crutches in the foreground is Leen Sturgeon of Los Angeles. Santa Claus is Lieut. Ira Hodes of Berkeley, Cal

Orphans from the Dartford asylum participate in a little Christmas fes...

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Recreation. Data: Central, Pacific, Atlantic, Mr. Redding, Northern, S.W. New England, Pa. Lake, Potomac. 12/18. Gift; American National Red ... More

Enfant adopte: Pierre Alexandre

Enfant adopte: Pierre Alexandre

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Melle. Perrie, 6 Mai 18. Group title: Adopted children. Plate in file. Gift; Amer... More

Two sisters in charge of an orphan asylum in district invaded by Germans. They were driven out with their charges, and are seen in the photograh conferring at the Gare de Lyons with a worker in a canteen aided by the American Red Cross. Sisters of sorrow. The Red Cross nurse assumes generally the duties associated with nuns

Two sisters in charge of an orphan asylum in district invaded by Germa...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: H.E. 50711, ARC Commission to France. Group title: Refugees, France. Nurse. On ca... More

Adopted children series. Jules Dechays

Adopted children series. Jules Dechays

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: R.C. Comm. to France. Group title: Adopted children, France. On caption card: 355... More

Odette Saget, adopte. Address: Mme. Saget chez Mme. Mabileau Mail des Tilleuks. Romorantin (Loir-et-Cher) address of child: 116 Rue de la Forge Noisy-le Sec. (Seine) protege of: Junior Red Cross Auxiliary Sandhill Farm Life School, Vass, N.C., U.S.A. co Miss Flozelle Gary

Odette Saget, adopte. Address: Mme. Saget chez Mme. Mabileau Mail des ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Colin [Joseph A. Collin] Reproduction. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and... More

The aftermath of war. In Poland there are thousands of children like this group who are not only parentless and homeless but hungry and emaciated with starvation. The shoes and clothing they wear came from American school children who are reaching out helping hands to them across the seas. The Junior Red Cross has sent its representatives into this stricken land with a message of hope to these lonely victims of war. Nourshing foods especially selected for their weakened bodies are reaching them and nurses and medical care also may save them but the new generation in Poland has been dwarfed and crippled by famine

The aftermath of war. In Poland there are thousands of children like t...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Paris Office. Data: Jr. Red Cross, T.T. & C. Group title: Children, Poland. J... More

Sabine Women Famous Beauties. Age has not withered the "infinite variety" of beauty that centuries ago was synonomous with the Sabine woman and gave her a name in history. Her regular features, glorious dark eyes and riotous curls still tally with descriptions of those siren women who lured the sons of Numa. Nor are the earthen jars which they carry on their heads with consummate grace very different from the old designs in Etruscan then in use. Many of these women in Sezze are now widowed by war or from the deadly malaria which takes enormous toll in lives each year from men working in the lowland marshes. They live a simple toilsome life in isolated hill towns knowing little or nothing of modern times. At one of the school orphanages maintained by the Junior Red Cross cared for temporarily and given an education that will fit them for useful self supporting occupations

Sabine Women Famous Beauties. Age has not withered the "infinite varie...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Paris Office. Data: T.T. & C., Jr. Red Cross. Group title: Reconstruction. Ge... More

Jean Piere Thomas (?) Born May 15, 1914; Henriette Maitile Thomas (?) Born June 8, 1913

Jean Piere Thomas (?) Born May 15, 1914; Henriette Maitile Thomas (?) ...

Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Adopted children. Plate in file. Date based on date range for negative series. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information abou... More

Enfants adoptes, Edmonde Fillaire

Enfants adoptes, Edmonde Fillaire

Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Miss Perrin. Group title: Adopted children. Plate in file. Date based on date range for... More

Enfants adoptes, Marius Laurange (?)

Enfants adoptes, Marius Laurange (?)

Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Adopted children. Date based on date range for negative series. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the American ... More

Marie Rouget who lives in Cain, has lost her father in the war but she has just acquired a whole Company of the Telegraph Battalion for a godfather. Company "D" decided that it must have a "feminine mascot". Marie wrote them early in August that her "brother Paul once saw some Americans and he waved his hand to them, but as for me, I never saw any as I go out only for school. I like better helping mother with household work: dusting, sweeping, peeling potatoes, or sewing for my doll." Company "D" certainly got the kind of mascot it wanted, especially as Marie is as pretty as she is feminine. The A.R.C. administers the funds for the maintenance of all the children adopted by the American troops

Marie Rouget who lives in Cain, has lost her father in the war but she...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: A.R.C. Comm. to France. Group title: Adopted children, France. October 1918 [date... More

Maurice Dallongville (left) and Maxime Leduc (right), refugee children from the Northern districts of France, have been apprenticed in an "atelier" or repair shop at Caen. Here they will learn a trade that both have always been ambitious to learn. In this picture noon has just struck and like good workmen, they are ready for lunch. The master of the shop says they are "brave types", which means that they have good heads and good hands and good tempers

Maurice Dallongville (left) and Maxime Leduc (right), refugee children...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: A.R.C., R.C. Commission to France. Group title: Adopted children. France. On capt... More

Yvonne Varin Faus - Public domain portrait photograph

Yvonne Varin Faus - Public domain portrait photograph

On caption card: Adopted child. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Commission to France. Group title: Adopted ch... More

Adopted children, A. Bolonge - Public domain portrait photograph

Adopted children, A. Bolonge - Public domain portrait photograph

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Coles. [Henri A. Coles] Group title: Adopted children. Gift; American National Re... More

Adopted children, Madeleine Gauthier

Adopted children, Madeleine Gauthier

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Coles. [Henri A. Coles] Group title: Adopted children. Gift; American National Re... More

Orphan Children, Syrians, Armenians, Jews and other nationalities cared for by S. AND P. Relief fund in the Austrian Hospice building, Jerusalem. The building was formerly used for rich pilgrims visiting Jerusalem. 234 children are now supported here by Christmas gifts form the Sunday School of America and other lands

Orphan Children, Syrians, Armenians, Jews and other nationalities care...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: H. & E. Group title: Palestine. Used in: H. & E. 50866, All Div. Oct. 28, 1918, W... More

Their first free fun. Children of Prague, playing in the sand-pile at the Junior Red Cross Vacation Camp, Smakovec, Czecho-Slovakia. The only playgrounds these youngsters knew were the commercial playgrounds opened each summer by firms that travel with their "Playgrounds" from place to place, charging admission to the playground or a few pennies for the use of swings, carousels or see-saws

Their first free fun. Children of Prague, playing in the sand-pile at ...

Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC, Paris Office. Group title: Czecho-Slovak children. On caption card: (1) Used in: E... More

Amelie Ledieu. Address: 108 Allee Saint Maurice, Flixecourt (Somme) protege of: American Red Cross Military Hospital #2. APO 702, American Expeditionary Forces, (Paris District)

Amelie Ledieu. Address: 108 Allee Saint Maurice, Flixecourt (Somme) pr...

Caption from negative sleeve: Amelie Ledieu, adopted. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Coles. [Henri A. Coles] Rep... More

Prague. Armless Frankie who is able to help himself with his feet and a strong willpower. School for Crippled Children

Prague. Armless Frankie who is able to help himself with his feet and ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC slides. Junior Red Cross. Group title: Czecho-Slovakia. Gift; American Nation... More

Outdoor games at the Junior Red Cross home for War Orphans, Perigny, France

Outdoor games at the Junior Red Cross home for War Orphans, Perigny, F...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Mr. Cunningham. Group title: Junior Red Cross, France. Used in: Magazine Bur... More

"There are smiles." A typical boy-refugee of Greece, snapped on the streets of Salonica. He has on a soldier's cast-off coat, a piece of a bedquilt and pajamas as trousers. He is one of the thousands of Greek children that the American Red Cross is trying to help. When the American Red Cross arrived in Salonica they found the streets alive with boys of this type, without parents or friends, living by alms begged from passersby

"There are smiles." A typical boy-refugee of Greece, snapped on the st...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Paris Office. Group title: Greece (Children) On caption card: (1021) Used in... More

Petrograd Children's Colony at Turgoyak, Siberia, maintained by the American Red Cross. Their monkey (a la Teddy Bear) and their doll are the most priceless of all their possessions

Petrograd Children's Colony at Turgoyak, Siberia, maintained by the Am...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Siberian Comm. Group title: Children, Siberia. Used in: Junior Red Cross ind... More

Soap not soup. At the Junior Red Cross of America Orphanage and Agricultural School in Collestrada, Italy, soap making is in the "curriculum." Boys and girls war-worn and alone in the world are being trained in this school for occupations that will fit them for Italy's skilled workers of the future. Farming, polutry and cattle raising, soil treatment are the main studies, branching off into domestic science, cheese-making and milking for the more delicate girls

Soap not soup. At the Junior Red Cross of America Orphanage and Agricu...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Paris Office. Data: T.T. & C. Jr. Red Cross, June 21/20. Group title: Jr. Red... More

Living the life of a soldier. Like real little soldiers these two Roumanian orphan boys accepted their first weeks of trench life. In the dank darkness of their old dugout homes along the battlefront they have inherited the hardships their father endured. They themselves are being slain and deformed by their greatest enemy: darkness. Over their heads the weeds grow in sunlight. But in the blackness of their trench home their fragile bodies wither and crumple like thirsty flowers. The smoke that had no outled from their cavern fireside temporarily blinded them and finally affected their eyesight. When rescued by Junior Red Cross relief workers, a heavy film coated their eyes. Trachoma and other eye diseases so prevalent in eastern Europe today are easily traced to crowding children into living quarters as these

Living the life of a soldier. Like real little soldiers these two Roum...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Data: Jr. Red Cross, Apr. 1920; T.T. & C. Jrs., Apr. 1920. Group ti... More

The poor children of Warsaw. An interesting crowd of Polish children at one of the American Red Cross welfare stations in Warsaw, the capital of Poland. Many of them have received knitted caps and sweaters made by the woman of America and they are very grateful. After feeding and clothing them, the Junior Red Cross recently sent them 10,000 farming implements to use in their community garden scheme, by which the children will help to grow food for Poland

The poor children of Warsaw. An interesting crowd of Polish children a...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Data: R.C. Bul. Sept. 27, 1920. Group title: Children. Poland. (Sch... More

Adopted children series. Three children in group

Adopted children series. Three children in group

Two girls and a boy. Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Adopted children. Date based on date range for negative series. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General informatio... More

Suzanne Lempereur, 5 yrs. old - Public domain portrait photograph

Suzanne Lempereur, 5 yrs. old - Public domain portrait photograph

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Adopted children. Date (year) based of date of negatives in same range. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about... More

Lucie Denonne lived for months in the cellar of her home in Reims, quite near the Cathedral and almost every day heard or felt the Boche shells come over the city. Now she lives in a refugee colony at the seashore where she is getting fat and brown. She is a "Stars and Stripes" orphan. Her own father was killed at Verdun but she has the whole corps of the "Division Quartermasters" for her Godfathers. The ARC administers the funds for the maintanence of all the children adopted by the American troops

Lucie Denonne lived for months in the cellar of her home in Reims, qui...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name from LC-A6199-3898. Source of original on caption card: ARC France. Group title: Children, France. On caption card: (3898) Used in: Woman's M... More

Adopted children. Marthe Henry - Public domain portrait photograph

Adopted children. Marthe Henry - Public domain portrait photograph

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Colin [Joseph A. Collin] Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General... More

The mother of Andre Claudel died a year ago. His father was killed in the Argonne and Andre is so quiet, so serious, that he seems much more than ten years old. He is like a young old man in all he says and does. He is one of the best students at the refugee colony at Caen where he has lived ever since he was driven away from his home in Lorraine by the shells and poison gas of the Germans. His teacher says: "il travaille dans al perfection," his work is perfect. Sometime he will go back to Lorraine when the Boches have been driven out. He says: "I like the American soldiers. They have come to protect my country. And I like especially my Godfathers." They are the Army Field Clerks of Section ... General Staff. The American Red Cross administers the funds for the maintenance of all the children adopted by the American troops

The mother of Andre Claudel died a year ago. His father was killed in ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name from LC-A6199-3904. Source of original on caption card: A.R.C., R.C. Commission to France. Group title: Adopted children. France. Used in: Yo... More

Orphan children, Syrians, Armenians, Jews and other nationalities cared for by S. and P. Relief fund in the Austrian Hospice building, Jerusalem. The building was formerly used for rich pilgrims visiting Jerusalem. 234 children are now supported here by Christmas gifts form the Sunday School of America and other lands

Orphan children, Syrians, Armenians, Jews and other nationalities care...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: H. & E. Group title: Palestine. Used in: H. & E. 50866, All Div. Oct. 28, 1918, W... More

Georgette Wallet, 6 years old - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Georgette Wallet, 6 years old - Public domain photograph, glass negati...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: R.C. Comm. to France. Group title: Adopted children, France. On caption card: 115... More

Adopted children series, Genevieve Dupont

Adopted children series, Genevieve Dupont

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Coles. [Henri A. Coles] Group title: Adopted children. Reproduction. Gift; Americ... More

Lucienne Gregoire, adopted - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Lucienne Gregoire, adopted - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Coles. [Henri A. Coles] Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General ... More

Raymond Denis. Address: 105 Rues de Hauts Paves. Nantes. (Loire Inferieure) protege of: Personnel War Risk Section, APO 717. American Expeditionary Forces

Raymond Denis. Address: 105 Rues de Hauts Paves. Nantes. (Loire Inferi...

Caption from negative sleeve: Raymond Denis, adopted. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Coles. [Henri A. Coles] Rep... More

Suzanne Maupin, adopted. Address: Mme. Maupin, 22 Rue du Port, Vannes Morihan, protege of: Officers of 150th Field Artillery, A.P.O. 715, American Expeditionary Forces

Suzanne Maupin, adopted. Address: Mme. Maupin, 22 Rue du Port, Vannes ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Coles. [Henri A. Coles] Reproduction. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and ... More

Louise Pochard. Address: 55 Rue du Chateau des Rentiers Paris XIII eme. protege of: Miss Winifred Stillwell, 1615 Wesr. Genesee St., Syracuse, N.Y., U.S

Louise Pochard. Address: 55 Rue du Chateau des Rentiers Paris XIII eme...

Caption fron negative or negative sleeve: Enfants adopte, Louise Pochard. Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Mr. Colin [Jo... More

Rumania's popular queen. Queen Marie of Roumania, on left Major L'Engle Hartridge, Jacksonville, Fla. Her Majesty, Queen Marie of Roumania on one of her visits to the orphanage maintaned by the American Red Cross in Bucharest, the capital of the country. The Queen has expressed a wish to see many of the American orphan homes when she visits the United States next year. She is a great lover of children

Rumania's popular queen. Queen Marie of Roumania, on left Major L'Engl...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Group title: Personnel. Rumania. Gift; American National Red Cross ... More

Serbian girls walk and knit. Peasant girls in Serbia improve each shining hour by knitting on their way to market. In this way not a moment is lost in their hard working lives. Most of the wool that they use is carded by them and made into stockings and various warm things for the cold winter. Serbian women are industerious sic and not only accomplish all the domestic tasks usually alloted to their sex but perform much of the hardest labor of the fields and farms. Thousands of young girls in this war ravaged country are idly drifting into womanhood because they are without fathers or mothers or homes. If the Junior Red Cross of America carries on with its plans of instituting industrial and vocational training school centers in different parts of Serbia it will mean that these helpless war victims will have within their reach means of becoming skilled in some useful occupation that will assure their future independence

Serbian girls walk and knit. Peasant girls in Serbia improve each shin...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Group title: Serbia. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 195... More

The Biggest Baby of All. "Bill" is the prize "orphan" at the Catholic orphanage in Vilna, White Russia. Several of the children found him wandering around the streets one morning. Shouting with glee they lead the goat back to their home and told the astonished sister that "Bill" too was an orphan because he could not find his mother or father. Now the goat is the pride of the 300 children in the home. Only a distribution of American Red Cross supplies will tempt them to leave their mascot

The Biggest Baby of All. "Bill" is the prize "orphan" at the Catholic ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Data: Excl. to Keystone View Co. until June 12th. Group title: Chil... More

Jeanne Septvents is a beautiful French girl, 10 years old, whose father, for nearly a year a prisoner in Germany, has given his life for France. Jeanne has been adopted by Company E, 6th Battalion of the 20th Engineers. When the American Red Cross photographer found her in the garden of her little stone house at Caen, she was playing with knuckle bones that she had painted red, white and blue in honor of her Godfathers. She wrote them soon after she was adopted saying: "I hope you are all in good health and not too unhappy at the front and I send big kisses to you all." The American Red Cross administers the funds for the maintanence of all the children adopted by the American troops

Jeanne Septvents is a beautiful French girl, 10 years old, whose fathe...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name from LC-A6199-3907. Source of original on caption card: A.R.C., R.C. Commission to France. Group title: Adopted children. France. On caption ... More

Adopted children. Revelle Herment

Adopted children. Revelle Herment

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Colin [Joseph A. Collin] Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General... More

Andre Ecuier, although he is only four years old, has lived through months of German raids and bombardments. When his father was killed, he and his mother were taken, with a colony of refugee children whose homes in Nancy were endangered, into a quiet Normandy town, where Andre goes to school and learns to march and to sing the soldier songs of Lorraine. He has been adopted by the Supply Company of the Q.M.C. No. 303. He asked his mother to write his Godfathers and to say "today, after bombardments in my home, I am safe and sound. I end with a big kis for my dear new parrains." The American Red Cross administers the funds for the maintenance of all the children adopted by the American troops

Andre Ecuier, although he is only four years old, has lived through mo...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: A.R.C., R.C. Commission to France. Group title: Adopted children. France. On capt... More

Adopted children series, Madeleine Reusset

Adopted children series, Madeleine Reusset

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Coles. [Henri A. Coles] Group title: Adopted children. Reproduction. Gift; Americ... More

Marie Rouget who lives in Cain, has lost her father in the war but she has just acquired a whole Company of the Telegraph Battalion for a godfather. Company "D" decided that it must have a "feminine mascot". Marie wrote them early in August that her "brother Paul once saw some Americans and he waved his hand to them, but as for me, I never saw any as I go out only for school. I like better helping my mother with household work: dusting, sweeping, peeling potatoes or sewing for my doll." Company "D" certainly got the kind of mascot it wanted, especially as Marie is as pretty as she is feminine. The A.R.C. administers the funds for the maintenance of all the children adopted by the American troops

Marie Rouget who lives in Cain, has lost her father in the war but she...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: A.R.C. Comm. to France. Group title: Adopted children, France. October 1918 [date... More

Alfred Piquet, adopted. Address: Quai Barbes, Montlucon (Allier) protege of: Motor Field Hospital #44, Camp #1, Base Section #1, American Expeditionary Forces

Alfred Piquet, adopted. Address: Quai Barbes, Montlucon (Allier) prote...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Coles. [Henri A. Coles] Reproduction. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and ... More

Jeanne Marie Arry, adopted. Address: Madame Arry, 27 Rue de Gare, Marseilles (B. du R.) protege of: Ordinance Officers on Duty with Ordinance Detachment O.C.O.O., A.P.O. 717, American Expeditionary Forces

Jeanne Marie Arry, adopted. Address: Madame Arry, 27 Rue de Gare, Mars...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Coles. [Henri A. Coles] Reproduction. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and ... More

Camille Mandin. Address: La Garnitiere, Commune de St. Martin-des-Noyers, (Vendee) protege of: Co. E. 15th U.S. Engineers, APO 758, American Expeditionary Forces

Camille Mandin. Address: La Garnitiere, Commune de St. Martin-des-Noye...

Caption from negative sleeve: Camille Mandin, adopted. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Coles. [Henri A. Coles] Re... More

Emma Barbaro. Address: Rue des Arcs, Vance, (Alpes-Maritimes) protege of: Aircraft Armament Section Ordinance Department, 45 Avenue Montaigne, Paris

Emma Barbaro. Address: Rue des Arcs, Vance, (Alpes-Maritimes) protege ...

Caption from negative sleeve: Emma Barberd, adopted. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Coles. [Henri A. Coles] Gift... More

Marie Hurault, adopted. Address: a la Bouxiere (Ile et Vilaine) protege of: 79th Field Artillery, co Chaplain Harry Fraser, Camp Meucon, American Expeditionary Forces

Marie Hurault, adopted. Address: a la Bouxiere (Ile et Vilaine) proteg...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Coles. [Henri A. Coles] Reproduction. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and ... More

War orphans of Roumania. These are war orphans of Sascut, Roumania, seated in their classroom at the orphanage established by the American Red Cross. They are fed, clothed and given medical attention by American doctors and nurses, as part of the Red Cross work for children in the Balkans

War orphans of Roumania. These are war orphans of Sascut, Roumania, se...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Paris Office. Group title: Children. Roumania. On caption card: (1009) Used ... More

Jeannette Diguelon (Diquelon), adopted. Address: Mme. Diquelon, 51 Rue Bourg Les Bourges, Quimper Finistere, protege of: Co. F. 304th Infantry co Sgt. S. Dokers, American Expeditionary Forces

Jeannette Diguelon (Diquelon), adopted. Address: Mme. Diquelon, 51 Rue...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Coles. [Henri A. Coles] Reproduction. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and ... More

At Belgian Orphanage. In spite of the hardships that they have undergone during the past few years and the pleasures, as well as the necessities of life that have been denied them, these hapless victims of war in Belgium still like to play all the games that happier and more fortunate children play. These little girls are dressed after the manner of American children because it was from America that the warm clothing they are wearing came to them, by way of the Junior Red Cross

At Belgian Orphanage. In spite of the hardships that they have undergo...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Paris Office. Data: Junior Red Cross, T.T. & C. Group title: Children. Belgiu... More

Adopted children, Henry and Jules Pio

Adopted children, Henry and Jules Pio

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Adopted children. Date based on date range for negative series. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about th... More

Enfant adopte, Rene Varin, 5 yrs. old

Enfant adopte, Rene Varin, 5 yrs. old

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Adopted children. Plate in file. Date based on date range for negative series. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General infor... More

Mrs. Corey's: Mrs. Gilman, Mrs. Corey's mother and her adopted children Ellis and Jeannette. At the A.R.C. Officers's Convalescent Home No. 8. Given to the A.R.C. by Mrs. Corey. Mrs. Gilman and her two adopted childern Ellis and Jeannette taken at the side entrance of Chateau Villegenis or as it is known now. AMERICAN RED CROSS Officers Convalescent Home No. 8. which was given by Mrs. Corey for the duration of the war. It has accomodation for 60 officers and with its beautiful building and spacious grounds makes an ideal convalescent home. It is situated at Verrieres only 18 Km. from Paris

Mrs. Corey's: Mrs. Gilman, Mrs. Corey's mother and her adopted childre...

Title from negative or negative sleeve. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Bissell. See 7945. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information abou... More

Enfants adoptes, Boyle - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Enfants adoptes, Boyle - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: M. Guerin. Group title: Adopted children. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 ... More

Paul Duriche, adopted - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Paul Duriche, adopted - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Colin [Joseph A. Collin] Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General... More

Roger Perrier wants to be a designer. He draws automobiles, Red Cross men wearing campaign hats, and riding bicycles, Baldwin locomotives, trolly cars and American war ships with the Stars and Stripes at both bow and stern. The strong American tone in his designs is accounted for by the fact that the Enlisted Men of Battery "A" of the ... Field Artillery have made him their mascot and he is enormously proud of it. His designing, however, occupies only his leisure hours. Most of the time when he is not in school, he helps his mother make rain coats of horizon blue for the French Poilus. The American Red Cross administers the funds for the maintanence of all the children adopted by the American Troops

Roger Perrier wants to be a designer. He draws automobiles, Red Cross ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: A.R.C., R.C. Commission to France. Group title: Adopted children. France. On capt... More

Orphan Children at Cesenatico summer camp drilling in open

Orphan Children at Cesenatico summer camp drilling in open

On caption card: Data: Free Public Library Comm., State of Mass.; 1387 ms. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Co... More

Pierre Le Roux Address: Mme. Vve. Le Roux Kerendoare en Plogastel St. Germain (Finistere) protege of: Aerial Gunnery School Saint Jean de Mont Vendee, France

Pierre Le Roux Address: Mme. Vve. Le Roux Kerendoare en Plogastel St. ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Group title: Adopted children. France. Gift; American National Red Cross 194... More

Yvonne Rouyer, adopted. Address: Mailly-le-Camp (Aube) protege of: The Army Field Clerks of the Inspector General, American Expeditionary Forces

Yvonne Rouyer, adopted. Address: Mailly-le-Camp (Aube) protege of: The...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Coles. [Henri A. Coles] Reproduction. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and ... More

The 17 War Orphans at the Junior Red Cross Home, Perigny, France

The 17 War Orphans at the Junior Red Cross Home, Perigny, France

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Group title: Junior Red Cross, France. Used in: Junior Red Cross. Dec. 1919.... More

At the Junior Red Cross playgrounds Paris. The French children at the Junior Red Cross playgrounds on the Paris fortifications were so eager to make friends with the Junior Red Cross photographer who came out to take their pictures that they refused to leave his side. Fortunately there was another camera present that snapped them, photographer and all

At the Junior Red Cross playgrounds Paris. The French children at the ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Junior Red Cross. Data: Mr. Cunningham. Aug. 1920. Group title: Junior Red Cross.... More

Always Wash Behind the Ears. That is the warning the native woman with the pitcher gives these Albanian war orphans who are attending the American Red Cross school at Tirana. This is the morning class in personal hygiene. The camera caught them at tooth brush drill. This is a great innovation, these children and most of their parents never had heard of a tooth brush before the Red Cross came. They have to brush their teeth and wash before they can get into school. They also have to wash their own wash bowls after they get through washing so that the next fellow can wash in a clean wash bowl

Always Wash Behind the Ears. That is the warning the native woman with...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Paris Office. Group title: Children-Albania. On caption card: (1/1718) Used i... More

New cloths from American 'Juniors'. When Junior Red Cross of America supplies for the suffering children of Europe finally reach their destination this is the way they bring smiles. In Tirana, Albania these war waifs have received their share of clean, comfortable American clothing, some of it used before and some it spick span new, but all of it in good condition and sent along with the sympathy of American children

New cloths from American 'Juniors'. When Junior Red Cross of America s...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Data: Jr. Red Cross. Sept. 13, 1920. Group title: Children. Albania... More

American health measures for Balkan babies. Miss Blanche Grundy of San Francisco, nurse in the Junior Red Cross of America Children's clinic at Elbasan with her interpreter and one of the many children who have undergone treatment there. Junior Red Cross propoganda in the cause of child welfare is slowly enlightening the fogged minds of native mothers in several of the Balkan countries on the subject of hygiene and home care of their babies and growing children

American health measures for Balkan babies. Miss Blanche Grundy of San...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Data: Pacific Div., Junior Red Cross. Group title: Personnel. Dispe... More

Lucy Denonne, adopted child, Rue a Reins (?) 1910

Lucy Denonne, adopted child, Rue a Reins (?) 1910

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Adopted children. Plate in file. Date based on date range for negative series. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General infor... More

Mrs. Corey's A.R.C. Officers Convalescent Home No. 8, Chateau de Villequeis , Verrieres de Buisson. (S.E.O.) Group at front entrance. Left: Mrs. Corey. Right: Capt. Frank Sullivan and Lieut. de Neveu, A.R.C. representatives. Center: Mrs. Gilman (Mrs. Corey's mother) and her two adopted children. Group at front entrance of Chateau Villegenis. Mrs. Corey, Mrs. Gilman, Mrs. Corey's adopted children and convalescing officers. Chateau Villegenie or as it is known now AMERICAN RED CROSS Officers Convalescent Home No. 8 was given to the Red Cross by Mrs. Corey for the duration of the war. It has accomodation for 60 officers and with its beautiful building and spacious grounds makes an ideal convalescent home. It is situated at Verrieres only 18 Km. from Paris

Mrs. Corey's A.R.C. Officers Convalescent Home No. 8, Chateau de Ville...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Bissell. Group title: Private Hospitals. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 a... More

Adopted children series, Fernande Courtens

Adopted children series, Fernande Courtens

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Adopted children. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection... More

Adopted children. Simone Chanavel

Adopted children. Simone Chanavel

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Colin [Joseph A. Collin] Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General... More

Gabrielle Lepeletier lives at the "Farm of the Old Mill" at Blainville in Normandy. Her father was killed in the early days of the great war and she and her two sisters all help the mother to run the farm and to plant, cultivate and harvest the grain. Gabrielle is seven and she has been adopted by the 5th Balloon Company. Thanks to them, she will have a new warm dress next winter and will go to school. She wrote a letter to her god-fathers saying: "Dear Mother takes much pains to tell me about who you are so far away. When I am a little bigger, I shall write a longer letter. Your loving little ward, Gabrielle. The AMERICAN RED CROSS administers the funds for the maintanence of all the children adopted by the American troops

Gabrielle Lepeletier lives at the "Farm of the Old Mill" at Blainville...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. Group title: Adopted children. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1... More

Rene Boutel (Boital), adopted. Address: 15 Rue Battant, Besancen-Doubs, protege of: Battery B, 68th Artillery C.A.C., American Expeditionary Forces

Rene Boutel (Boital), adopted. Address: 15 Rue Battant, Besancen-Doubs...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Coles. [Henri A. Coles] Reproduction. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and ... More

Claude Petiet. Address: Osnard, Par St. Martin-en-Bresse (Seine & Loire) protege of: Officers of Quartermaster Depot, American Expeditionary Forces, Monteir (Loire Inferieur)

Claude Petiet. Address: Osnard, Par St. Martin-en-Bresse (Seine & Loir...

Caption from negative sleeve: Claude Petois, adopted. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Coles. [Henri A. Coles] Rep... More

Georges Morand, adopted. Address: Mme. Vve. Marie Morand a Thiers par St. Junien (Hte. Vienne) protege of: Co. D. 105th Machine Gun Battalion, A.P.O. 748, American Expeditionary Forces

Georges Morand, adopted. Address: Mme. Vve. Marie Morand a Thiers par ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Coles. [Henri A. Coles] Reproduction. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and ... More

Yvette Arnaud. Address: e'Ile de la Gabarre, par Argles, Bouche-du-Rhone protege of: Mr. Paul Garrett, Bluff Point P.O. Yates Co. Yates County N.Y. RFD 11 vis. Penn Yan. U.S.A

Yvette Arnaud. Address: e'Ile de la Gabarre, par Argles, Bouche-du-Rho...

Caption from negative sleeve: Yvette Arnaud, adopted. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Coles. [Henri A. Coles] Gif... More

Old clothers go a long way. Refugee children of Reims and other localities in the devastated regions of France are beginning to cast off the dirty, miserable clothing that has been their portion during and since the war. They now appear in the streets on their way to school dressed neatly in a 'brand' bearing the trademark of the Junior Red Cross of America. Although some of the clothing worn by these hapless children of a thousand sorrows has done good service before it is not spurned as unfit, those in such great need of it

Old clothers go a long way. Refugee children of Reims and other locali...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Paris Office. Data: Jr. Red Cross. Group title: Children, Reconstruction, Fra... More

Her first haircut. This little Albanian girl, orphaned by the war, is posing for a hair-cut, "a la sanitaire," for the special benefit of children in America to whom she claims kinship via the Jr. Red Cross. In Albania it is not the custom ever to cut off all the hair, so a little tuft is always left on the back of the head. For reasons of hygiene the girls as well as the boys usually wear their hair clipped, and this is the prescribed "cut." She is to be dressed in American clothes, and live at one of the Red Cross orphanages where she will not only be fed but will have schooling for the first time in her life

Her first haircut. This little Albanian girl, orphaned by the war, is ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Group title: Children, Albania. Gift; American National Red Cross 1... More

Montenegro war orphans have a picnic. A real American school picnic on grounds of the Junior Red Cross of America farm school outside Pedgoritza in Montenegro. The little war waifs posed especially for their young American friends who have done so much to brighten and uplift their lives. They are clothed and well fed and daily instructed in farming, gardening and other practical subject

Montenegro war orphans have a picnic. A real American school picnic on...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Data: Jr. Red Cross. Group title: Children. Montenegro. Gift; Ameri... More

American Relief Worker With Favorite Orphan. Miss Esther M. Roe of Pacific Junction, Iowa , Nurse in the Koritza Junior Red Cross relief station and one of the children who had medical care there. The Americans frequently become very much attached to some of the children they care for and the children thus favored usually take the christian names of their benefactors by way of showing their appreciation

American Relief Worker With Favorite Orphan. Miss Esther M. Roe of Pac...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Data: Central Division Red Cross Bull. Group title: Children Person... More

Passchendaele. The five children of Passchendaele whose father and mother are both in hospital. The Junior Red Cross is taking care of these five until the parents are better. The baby brother and sister are being looked after at an American Red Cross Creche

Passchendaele. The five children of Passchendaele whose father and mot...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Paris Office. Data: Jr. Red Cross. Aug. 17, 1920. Group title: Children, Belg... More

Adopted children series. Little girl. Name not known

Adopted children series. Little girl. Name not known

Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Miss Perrin. Group title: Adopted children. Date based on date range for negative serie... More

Yvonne Laurance is knitting a pair of socks to send to some of her American Godfathers, the men of Company C, 1st Battalion of the 20th Engineers. Yvonne is a refugee from Lorraine, twice evacuated from bombarded villages, and she believes with all her heart that the "bons soldats Americaine" are going to win back her home for France. The American Red Cross administers the funds for the maintenance of all the children adopted by the American troops

Yvonne Laurance is knitting a pair of socks to send to some of her Ame...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: A.R.C., R.C. Commission to France. Group title: Adopted children. France. On capt... More

Roger & Pierre Lang, adopte - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Roger & Pierre Lang, adopte - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Coles. [Henri A. Coles] Group title: Adopted children. Reproduction. Gift; Americ... More

Enfants adoptes, Boyle - Public domain portrait photograph

Enfants adoptes, Boyle - Public domain portrait photograph

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: M. Guerin. Group title: Adopted children. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 ... More

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