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The Great War resulted in six million orphans across Europe.Created by: PICRYL - Public Domain Media Search EngineDated: 1919
Brenugat, Michel. Address: 22 Rue des Jardina, Saint-Brieue (C du N) protege of: Officers & Enlisted Men, Intermediate Ordinance Depot 2, APO 713, AEF
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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Enfant adopte, Georgette Wallet, 6 yrs

Enfant adopte, Georgette Wallet, 6 yrs

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

Maurice Dallongeville (left) and Maxime Leduc (right), refugee children from the Northern districts of France, have been apprenticed in an "atellier" 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 Dallongeville (left) and Maxime Leduc (right), refugee childre...

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

Brenugat, Michel. Address: 22 Rue des Jardina, Saint-Brieue (C du N) protege of: Officers & Enlisted Men, Intermediate Ordinance Depot 2, APO 713, AEF

Brenugat, Michel. Address: 22 Rue des Jardina, Saint-Brieue (C du N) p...

Caption fron negative or negative sleeve: Enfants adopte, Henri Jean (?) Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Mr. Coli... More

Child refugees from Russia. On the American Red Cross relief ship bringing Russian refugees from the port of Odessa in the Black Sea hundreds of children had the first wholesome food that they had ever tasted. Some of them had never tasted salt before, that being one of the most difficult things to obtain in Russia at the present time. When they arrived in Constantinople, where they were deloused and given medical attention before being sent to the concentration camp arranged for them on the island of Proti, far out in the sea of Marmora, they were met by Junior Red Cross of America directors who had large supplies of clean clothing, shoes and underwear awaiting them. To these miserable, unoffending waifs, who have known little but suffering and terror in their short lives this was almost the first sign that human kindness was to be found in the world. Their changed spirits spoke worlds of gratitude for American children whose slender savings brought them so much comfort and happiness

Child refugees from Russia. On the American Red Cross relief ship brin...

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: Refugees. Russia. Gift; American ... More

[Group portrait of orphans from orphanages at the Old Palace and Zappeion, Athens, Greece, and their directors]

[Group portrait of orphans from orphanages at the Old Palace and Zappe...

Filed in: Greece Children General (folder). On verso: Mrs. Harris, Director, Old Palace (Girls). Mrs. Bassett, Director, Zappion (Boys). C.M.N., Director of Nursing. 1500 New Years Day. Went to the movies as a... 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

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

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

Adopted children series. Rouet - Public domain portrait photograph

Adopted children series. Rouet - Public domain portrait photograph

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

Enfants adoptes. Meyer - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Enfants adoptes. Meyer - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Group Title: Adopted children, France. On caption card: 1210. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General... More

Company G. takes the whole bunch

Company G. takes the whole bunch

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Adopted children, France. On caption card: 1752. Data: Miss Metzer, Sept. 13/18. Miss Davis 9/16/18. Divisions. 9/28/18. Gift; American Natio... 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 God-fathers. 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. September 1918

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

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

Adopted children series. Mayer - Public domain portrait photograph

Adopted children series. Mayer - Public domain portrait photograph

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Adopted children (France) On caption card: 1831. Data: Mrs. Davis, 9/16/18. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General informat... More

American Hit Undertakers Hard. An undertaker of Podgoritza, Montenegro, on the way to the home of the corpse. There are no hearses so he had to carry the coffin to the house of the dead on his head. Before the American Red Cross arrived in Montenegro, the undertaker business was flourishing. But the establishment of hospitals, dispensaries, mobile medical units and orphanages in the country the Americans have reduced the deathrate greatly. It is customary for the friend of the deceased to gather about the home of the departed one upon the arrival of the undertaker, wail for hours and beat their breast as evidence of their grief. After this the coffin, with the corpses exposed, is carried in relays by the mourners to the cemetery

American Hit Undertakers Hard. An undertaker of Podgoritza, Montenegro...

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: Gen. Montenegro. On caption card: (12946) Used in:... More

Enfants adoptes, famille Andree, Madeleine, Suzanne, Juliette

Enfants adoptes, famille Andree, Madeleine, Suzanne, Juliette

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

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

Little girl in curved chair - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Little girl in curved chair - Public domain photograph, glass negative

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: 175... More

Petrograd Children's Colony at Turgoyak, Siberia, maintained by the American Red Cross. Alexandra Kirsanova is ten years old. She comes from Petrograd and has been one of the "war waifs" of Siberia for nearly two years

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

The littlest ones of the family in the gravel garden besides the house. Dede and Marguerite whose pet name is Gigite are still somewhat shy. Junior Red Cross Homes for War Orphans. Perigny, France

The littlest ones of the family in the gravel garden besides the house...

Title 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. Date based on date of negatives in same ran... More

Cows of History. Extraordinarily beautiful and picturesque are the long-horned, snow white cows of the Tuscan valleys in Italy. Their horns measure about twenty inches across and their silky tails often sweep the ground. Since the war they are becoming very scarce owing to lack of fodder, and land holders are haunted by mythological tales of the Middle Ages when they disappeared altogether. Invaders from the North brought this breed of cattle into Italy and they were so admired by the early Romans that they each year offered up the whitest and most beautiful one as a sacrifice, gilding its horns and garlanding them with rare flowers. The Italian government presented this pair to the Agricultural Colony of the Junior Red Cross of America orphanage and vocational school where several hundred war orphans are learning scientific farming and undergoing training for their future independence

Cows of History. Extraordinarily beautiful and picturesque are the lon...

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., Southwest Div. Group title: Jr.... 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

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

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. 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

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

Enfants adoptes, Pierre Masse a Salles (D. Sevres) adopted child

Enfants adoptes, Pierre Masse a Salles (D. Sevres) adopted child

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

These are all "Stars and Stripes" Children little French war orphans, adopted by American soldiers and sailors. They are proud of their lucky chance to be the wards of the Americans and if they are old enough to go to school they work specially so that their godfathers may be well satisfied with them. If they are too small to go to school, they keep busy "mascotting" as hard as they can for their "good godfathers." This photo shows the group of the "Stars and Stripesers" in the refugee colony at Caen. There, in an old Chateau built originally by William the Conqueror, they live in barracks like little soldiers, go to school, march and sing the soldier songs of fair Lorraine which is in their home. The Director of the Colony, M. Eugene Schmidt, who is standing in the center of the group, is himself from Lorraine. He has given his own son to France and he loves these fatherless children almost as if they were his own. He says: "tell those American men who have taken an interest in these little waifs of the great war that every heart in France is grateful to them." The A.R.C. administers the funds for the maintanence of all the children adopted by the American troops

These are all "Stars and Stripes" Children little French war orphans, ...

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. Used in: Woman's M... More

Paris, France. This picture shows the size of one of the heroes of the war. This is Henri Cardi, who was born in Berona, Itlay, in 1903. His parents died when he was 4 years old. In 1914 he joined the Italian Bersaglieri, 4th Regt. and remained with them on the Piave front, almost constantly in the Trenches, until 1916 when the French 70th Infantry which had been fighting in that sector, left for France and he accompanied them. While with the Italian Army he was wounded in the hand. He received the Italian Cross of War. He fought on the Somme, Argonne, Champagne, Verdun and on the Lorraine fronts, with the French 70th Infantry and was wounded twice in the left side and in the right leg. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre by General Francois, the citation mentioning his two wounds and the capture of three Germans in the night with a rifle. While with the 70th Infantry he was widely known as the "Little Corporal". When the 70th Infantry was changing fronts from the Lorraine sector in Sept. 1918 he became lost in Nancy and was adopted by a detachment of the 40th Engineers, Camouflage, United States Army, and was made an honorary sergeant of that outfit by the Colonel. The above is vouched for by the Italian Consulate, Nancy, France

Paris, France. This picture shows the size of one of the heroes of the...

Caption from negative or negative sleeve: Srgt. Cardi group. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Colin [Joseph A. Col... More

Lunching on Bread Crusts. With small paper bags full of bread crusts, this war orphan of Vilna (White Russia) has taken a seat on the curb stone and is preparing to lunch. Only a short time ago his bill of fare was bread made with chopped straw moss and the bark of trees. But when the Polish army took Vilna real cereals were brought in. then come the Junior Red Cross clothing and relief supplies. Hundreds, like this little starveling of White Russia, were aided by the boys and girls of America through their Red Cross organization

Lunching on Bread Crusts. With small paper bags full of bread crusts, ...

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-Poland. On caption card: (1/2054) Gift; A... More

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 child, Jacqueline Majorel

Adopted child, Jacqueline Majorel

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

Enfant adopte: Georges Le Jariel

Enfant adopte: Georges Le Jariel

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

Adopted children, H. Lapland - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Adopted children, H. Lapland - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

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. 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

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 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

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

Adopted children, Vigouraux - 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

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

Serge Castle (left) and Marcel Aubert (right) are two "Stars and Stripes" boys been installed for the summer on the sea shore of Normandy. These boys sing "The Star Spangled Banner," La Banniere Etoiles, as few schools of American boiys sing it but then they know from their own experience what "the rocket's red glare" mean, what "perilous nights" really are, and what bombs can do when they "burst in the air." Serge and Marcel are the "filleuls" of the ship "Nancy" launched in Portland, Oregon, and of an American Captain and they are envied by all the rest of the school The A.R.C. administers the funds for the maintenance of all children adopted by the American troops

Serge Castle (left) and Marcel Aubert (right) are two "Stars and Strip...

On caption card: Data: Woman's Mag. 10/18 (exclusive) 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. Gro... 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, Odette Larayel

Adopted children series, Odette Larayel

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

Marguerite Vandamime, adopted - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Marguerite Vandamime, adopted - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

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

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

Andre Dereuddre. Address: 44 Rue des Romparts, Est-Bourberg (Nord) protege of: Battery A, 3rd Artillery (CAC), American Expeditionary Forces

Andre Dereuddre. Address: 44 Rue des Romparts, Est-Bourberg (Nord) pro...

Caption from negative sleeve: AndrÚ Dereuddre, 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] R... 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

Roumania's Queen mothers thousands. To the thousands of children in Roumania made orphans by war Queen Marie (in the centre of this group) is a befriending angel. She makes it her personal responsibility to visit all the orphanages of Belgrade every week and exerts herself in every way that their needs may be supplied. When the American Red Cross entered Roumania just after the Armistic sic both the Queen and King Ferdinand lent their full cooperation in dealing with every problem that arose in relief distribution. The Junior Red Cross of America is now planning to institute a training school centre in her country in order that some of these unfortunate children may have the benefits of modern American industrial and vocational education and upon Maris is giving this plan most enthusiastic encouragement

Roumania's Queen mothers thousands. To the thousands of children in Ro...

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. Roumania. Gift; America... More

Polish princess aids children. Princess Lubomirska, one of Poland's foremost relief workers, accompanied by her two daughters and nieces. The Princess has adopted the children of the Polish town of Krusczyna, and is glad to have the cooperation of the American Red Cross in her efforts to alleviate the sufferings of the little victims of the war in Poland

Polish princess aids children. Princess Lubomirska, one of Poland's fo...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Data: Ex. Syndicates Oct. 13th. Group title: Personnel. Poland. Gif... More

Poland's Greatest Asset Endangered. Poland's greatest asset its children are in danger of succombing to the epidemics now sweeping the country. These children are cared for in one of the numerous orphanages of Warsaw. Poland has 1,000,000 war orphans; the greatest number of any European country. The boys and girls of America are sending them aid through the Junior Red Cross while clothing, food, and medical supplies are being distributed by the American Red Cross organization. In groups of fifty, these orphans play on the sand dunes of Warsaw all afternoon when the weather permits. This photograph shows them marching to lunch, which is supplemented by Red Cross food

Poland's Greatest Asset Endangered. Poland's greatest asset its childr...

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 Poland. On caption card: (1/2097) Used in... 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

Adopted children series, little girl. Name not known

Adopted children series, little girl. Name not known

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

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

Julienne Payne, adopte - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Julienne Payne, 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

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

Raymond Ares (left) and Pierre Lang (right) are refugees from Nancy who have been adopted as mascots by the A.E.F. Raymond by the Aero Squadron, and Pierre by the Machine Gun Battalion. Raymond wrote to his godfathers that he loves to run and jump and wrestle. He is by his own profession, "very intelligent but a little lazy" and his teachers call him "bon petit diable." Happily, not even the war and the loss of his soldier father could take the "pep" out of him. He is a god son that any A.E.F. organization can be proud of. The A.R.C. administers the funds for the maintenance of all the children adopted by the American troops

Raymond Ares (left) and Pierre Lang (right) are refugees from Nancy wh...

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. Used in: Woman's M... More

Adopted children series, Maurice Vergnaud

Adopted children series, Maurice Vergnaud

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

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

Typical refugee group at a refugee station on the River Bug visited by the Interallied Medical Commission sent by the League of Red Cross Societies to investigate the typhus situation in Poland. The commission found that typhus fever is constantly being introduced into Poland from the East by returning refugees

Typical refugee group at a refugee station on the River Bug visited by...

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: Poland (Refugees) On caption card: (35) Used in: ... More

Andree Colin, adopted, 2 Place Jules Girod, Morez-les-Jura (Jura) protege of: 103rd Supply Train, 28th Division, A.P.O. 744, American Expeditionary Forces

Andree Colin, adopted, 2 Place Jules Girod, Morez-les-Jura (Jura) prot...

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

Armand (Amand) Leroy, adopted. Address: Montauban-de-Bretagne (Ils et Vilaine) protege of: 103rd Supply Train, 28th Division, A.P.O. 744, American Expeditionary Forces

Armand (Amand) Leroy, adopted. Address: Montauban-de-Bretagne (Ils et ...

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

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

Emilienne Martin. Address: Maison Corail, Monetier-les-Bains (Hautes Alpes) protege of: Co. E, 306 Engineers. American Expeditionary Forces

Emilienne Martin. Address: Maison Corail, Monetier-les-Bains (Hautes A...

Caption from negative sleeve: AndrÚe E. Martin, 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] ... More

Pierre Teillet. Address: Nalliers, par St. Savin-sur-Gartempe. (Vienne) protege of: Enlisted Personnel Base Hospital #67, APO 798, American Expeditionary Forces

Pierre Teillet. Address: Nalliers, par St. Savin-sur-Gartempe. (Vienne...

Caption from negative sleeve: Pierre Veiller, 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

Lucien Lietout. Address: Quetteville (Calvados) protege of: Guiding Stars Lodge #656, F. & A.M. Bronx Borough, New York City, N.Y

Lucien Lietout. Address: Quetteville (Calvados) protege of: Guiding St...

Caption from negative sleeve: Lucien Lietout, 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

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

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

Marguerite Sereno. Address: Rue de la Puerte du Rhone, Coupy-Bellegarde (Aine) protege of: Officers & men, 405 Telegraph Bn. S.C. APO 775, American Expeditionary Forces

Marguerite Sereno. Address: Rue de la Puerte du Rhone, Coupy-Bellegard...

Caption from negative sleeve: Marguerite Sereno, 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]... 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

A. Major L'Engle Hartridge, ARC, of Jacksonville, Fla. B. Queen Marie of Roumania. C. Mrs. Leonard A. Lynch (mother) of N.Y. American Red Cross war orphan asylum. Hardly a week passes at the American Red Cross orphanage in Bucharest, the capital of Rumania without a visit from the Queen of Rumania who is deeply interested in the welfare of the little ones who have lost their parents in the war

A. Major L'Engle Hartridge, ARC, of Jacksonville, Fla. B. Queen Marie ...

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

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

Where Montenegrian orphans are coming back. A group of Montenegrian war orphans, tocennervated sic from hunger to struggle for the courage to want to get well are now playing amid the palm gardens of Dalmatia and making mud pies along her beautiful seashore. They are guests of the Junior Red Cross of America and according to reports their health recovery is assued, being jautone more groups of lives to the credit of American school children

Where Montenegrian orphans are coming back. A group of Montenegrian wa...

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. 21/1920. Red Cross bull. Sept. 27, 1920.... 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

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

A Cossack From Buffalo, N.Y. Major E.G. Dexter of Buffalo, head of the American Red Cross Commission to South Russia. In recognition of his relief work, he was formally "adopted" by the state council of the Kuban Cossacks and given the right to wear the Cossack uniform, an honor almost without precedent in South Russia. The photograph is taken in the village of Proshnookskara. Major Dexter is in the white uniform of a nobleman. With him are the three leading men of the village gathered to discuss antityphus operations in the district. The Colonel on the left is the Ataman of the district and is in charge of 23 "stanitzas" or villages. He wears the St. George's Cross on his left breast. It is the most valued Russian decoration and only awarded for extreme valor in action. The Colonel's right arm is so injured as to be useless

A Cossack From Buffalo, N.Y. Major E.G. Dexter of Buffalo, head of the...

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: Personnel, Russia. On caption card: (1/1339) Used ... More

Entering their names for the sports The first field day held at the Junior Red Cross playgrounds in Paris

Entering their names for the sports The first field day held at the Ju...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Classification: JR. Red Cross Playgrounds Reconstruction. Date rece... 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

Enfants adoptes, 1.) Yvonne Rouger, born Oct. 5, 1908 2.) Robert Rouger, born Jan. 9, 1910 3.) Henri Rouger, born March 1, 1912 4.) Louis Rouger, born June 3, 1913

Enfants adoptes, 1.) Yvonne Rouger, born Oct. 5, 1908 2.) Robert Rouge...

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

Adopted children, France - Victorian era public domain image

Adopted children, France - Victorian era public domain image

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. On caption card: 1016. Data: Miss Metzer, Sept. 13/18. Miss Davis 9/16/18. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the ... 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

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

Marcel Aubert and Serge Castel ar orphans of the war and are refugees from Nancy. Marcel has been adopted by the ship Nancy, built by the Foundation Shipbuilding Company of Portland, Oregon. He is eleven years old, shows a special liking for mechanics and is studying English. Serge is eight and is the ward of an American Captain stationed in Paris. The boys were evacuated from their homes six months ago and are living in a seashore colony of other boys from the same district. As they come from war-stricken Lorraine, they know a great deal more about playing war than do the summer-resort children, and the fisher-boy, who are watching them dig themselves in the sand at Riva Bella. The AMERICAN RED CROSS administers the funds for the maintanence of all the children adopted by the American troops

Marcel Aubert and Serge Castel ar orphans of the war and are refugees ...

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

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