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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

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

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

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 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, 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

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

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, 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

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. 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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, 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

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

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

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. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Did you ever have a whole regiment of American soldiers for your ready made papa? The American Red Cross helped these little folks find new daddies

Did you ever have a whole regiment of American soldiers for your ready...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Children, adopted. France. 14th Div. Bulletin. 11/18. Atlantic Div. 4/21/19 Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information a... More

Rumania's popular queen. Queen Marie of Roumania and Roumanian war orphans supported by American Red Cross, Bucharest. Her Majesty Queen Marie of Roumania, on one of her visits to the orphanage maintained 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 and Roumanian war orp...

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

Junior Red Cross production from Brooklyn City schools

Junior Red Cross production from Brooklyn City schools

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Atlantic Division. Group title: Productions. Jr. Red Cross, U.S. Gift; American N... 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

Orphan survivor of family of 15, Armenian orphan

Orphan survivor of family of 15, Armenian orphan

Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative and caption card. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantham Bain Colle... More

Bordone. Three children - Public domain portrait photograph

Bordone. Three children - 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: R.C. Comm. to France. Group title: Adopted children, France. On caption card: 947... 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

Rene and Marguerite Doubinger, Stars and Stripes children, have been adopted by the ... Aero Squadron. They are orphans; their father died a prisoner in Germany in May, 1917; and they are refugees from their home in Lorraine. Rene says: "We pray that you will soon succeed in driving the Boche from our home." The American Red Cross administers the funds for the maintenance of all the children adopted by the American troops

Rene and Marguerite Doubinger, Stars and Stripes children, have been a...

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. Used in... More

Captain Kelly and Lieutenant Lilianthal of the splint Department of the ARC. Demonstrating the use of the Trench Litter as adopted by the U.S. Army in the perfection of which the ARC was largely instrumental

Captain Kelly and Lieutenant Lilianthal of the splint Department of th...

Dr. Kelley and Mr. Lilianthal of the A.R.C. demonstrating possible use of the new stretcher they have invented. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from ca... 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

Raymond Banche (Bauche), adopted. Address: 18 Rue Garibaldi, Setteville-les-Reuen (Seine Inf.) protege of: 103rd Supply Train, 28th Division, A.P.O. 744, American Expeditionary Forces

Raymond Banche (Bauche), adopted. Address: 18 Rue Garibaldi, Settevill...

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

Eugene Loigerost. Address: Maison Lombard. Chemin Francois St. Claude, pres Bescanon, (Doubs) protege of: 305th Infantry, Co. F., American Expeditionary Forces

Eugene Loigerost. Address: Maison Lombard. Chemin Francois St. Claude,...

Caption from negative sleeve: Eugene Loigeros, 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

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

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

Adopted children series. Mayer - Public domain weapon photograph

Adopted children series. Mayer - Public domain weapon 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

Marius, Andre, and Lucien have a name that is as French as Liberte, Egalite, Fraternity, if it comes from Alsace. Their name is Schiffenecker. They were driven away from their home near Nancy by Boche shells, and their father fought and died for France at Verdun. They too will be French men when they grow up, and French men with strong American leanings, for they are all "Stars and Stripes Children," mascots for the Aero Squadron. You can see by the smile that Lucien is busy "mascotting." The American Red Cross administers the funds for the maintenance of all the children adopted by the American troops

Marius, Andre, and Lucien have a name that is as French as Liberte, Eg...

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

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

This very small orator was photographed while talking for the Red Cross at Quinn, S.D

This very small orator was photographed while talking for the Red Cros...

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Junior Red Cross. Used in: Magazine Bureau. 4/25/1919. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the America... More

Reanard, Pierre. Address: 28 Rue Corne de Boeuf, Toul (M & M) protege of: Junior Red Cross of Wilmington, North Carolina, U.S.A

Reanard, Pierre. Address: 28 Rue Corne de Boeuf, Toul (M & M) protege ...

Caption from negative or negative sleeve: Pierre Renard, enfants adoptes. Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Mr. Colin [Jo... 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

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, 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

Guy Braneon, adopted - Public domain portrait photograph

Guy Braneon, adopted - 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

Adopted children, France - Public domain portrait photograph

Adopted children, France - Public domain portrait photograph

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. On caption card: 1966. Data: Miss Metzer, Sept. 13/18. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the American National Re... More

Rene Chazal, adopted - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Rene Chazal, 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

Adopted children. Christine Mellion

Adopted children. Christine Mellion

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

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

Andre la Fontaine, adopte - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Andre la Fontaine, 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

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

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

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

All of the children in this Asilo were clothed by the Junior Red Cross. This is one of the boys in his J. R. C. suit. Asilo Orfani di Guerra, Plaza Ottavainani sic, 1, Florence, Italy

All of the children in this Asilo were clothed by the Junior Red Cross...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Jr. R.C. Group title: Children. Italy. Jr. Red Cross. Gift; American National Red... More

Young Belgian Lace Makers. Lonely, homeless women and young girls in war torn Belgium are today trying to start the wheels of various industries moving in which before the war they played prominent parts as workers. Lace making is one of the most important and one for which the country was justly famous. These girls and hundreds of similar type are working night and day over the delicate thread work which will eventually be put on sale at prices no longer so moderate as in pre-war days for there are almost indurmountable difficulties now to be overcome before it can be made at all. To these homeless girls, struggling to earn their own livings, the Junior Red Cross of America has brought a message of encouragement and hope with its gifts of clothing, materials, and other sorely needed supplies

Young Belgian Lace Makers. Lonely, homeless women and young girls in w...

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: Excl. to News. Enter. Asso. Until July 8, 1920. Group tit... 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

Enfant adopte, Yvonne Varin, 7 yrs. old

Enfant adopte, Yvonne Varin, 7 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

Adopted children, France - Public domain portrait photograph

Adopted children, France - Public domain portrait photograph

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. On caption card: 1273. Data: Miss Metzer, Sept. 13/18. Miss Davis 9/16/18. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the ... 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

Trenchon, adopted - Public domain portrait photograph

Trenchon, adopted - 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

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 656th Aero Squadron, and Pierre by the 101st Machine Gun Battalion. Raymond wrote to his god-fathers that he loves to run and jump and wrestle. He is, by his own profession "very intelligent but a little lazy" and his teaachers call him a "bon petit diable". Happily, not even the war and the loss of his home, and the death 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 AMERICAN RED CROSS administers the funds for the maintanence 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. Group title: Adopted children. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection... More

Georges Bellegy, adopted. Address: Mme. Vve. Bellegy, Chenerailles, (Creuse) protege of: 305th French Mottar Battery co Captain Harold N. Scott, C.A.C., American Expeditionary Forces

Georges Bellegy, adopted. Address: Mme. Vve. Bellegy, Chenerailles, (C...

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

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

Louis Geness (Genest), adopted. Address: 75 Rue Labrouste, Paris, 15 eme, protege of: Officers Base Hospital #67, A.P.O. 798, American Expeditionary Forces

Louis Geness (Genest), adopted. Address: 75 Rue Labrouste, Paris, 15 e...

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

Prague. Feebleminded Honzik as he looked when admitted six years-supporting

Prague. Feebleminded Honzik as he looked when admitted six years-suppo...

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

Rene Pierrat. Address: La Chapelle par Bertrichamps (Muerthe & Moselle) protege of: Aerial Gunnery School, St. Jean-de-Monte, Vendee

Rene Pierrat. Address: La Chapelle par Bertrichamps (Muerthe & Moselle...

Caption from negative sleeve: RenÚ Pierral, 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] Repr... 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

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