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Much of the effort made by relief workers to take the population of Roumania out of the shadow of epidemics and starvation has necessarily been devoted to the children of the country. Everywhere they go in Roumania representatives of the American Red Cross have been impressed with the sad plight of the children. Schools were closed for months and in many districts because the children were too weak from lack of food to attend classes. A Red Cross photographer snapped a picture of this little girl, who had been left by her mother to sleep on the hard sidewalk while she endeavored to find food. Special hospitals have been established at many points to take care of the children
When fortune smiles on Roumanian children. This is the that is developed. They are among a very few of the Balkan youngsters that escaped the real hardships of War in the near East. They show the type of children that Roumania is capable of developing under favorable conditions. They were snapped in the yard of an American Red Cross feeding station while waiting for their mother who had donated her services to aid in serving their less fortunate little fellow countrymen
Roumanian Peasants waiting the distribution of clothes. Next to food and medical attention clothing for men, women, and children was one of the principal needs of the people of Roumania. One of the first things that the American Red Cross did upon its arrival in Roumania was to supply this need. In the Ilfov, where this photograph was taken, the American Red Cross found a particularly distressing situation and speeding set about distributing clothes to the needy
The Reapers in Roumania. Here's the way they garner the grain in Roumania. Small sickles are used, and it takes twenty men and women to do the work one man accomplishes in the American grain belt using modern machinery. Roumania's great wheat crop has insured the country against famine, which reached an acute stage last winter. Now the people are out of hunger danger. Pestilence that came in the wake of famine is being relieved by American Red Cross doctors and nurses who have established medical stations and hospitals throughout the country
Youthful Roumanian does its bit. Here is how the war orphans of Roumania are aiding the reconstruction fo their country. This picture shows a group of boys in an orphanage aided by the Junior Red Cross preparing ground for the spring garden. Many of them are wearing clothes sent them by the boys and girls of America while a Junior Representative looks after their comfort
A group of Roumanian peasants and their children waiting for American clothes distribution at a Red Cross station at Ostrov, Roumania. These poor people had all their possessions confiscated by the invading armies and have lived for four years in rags pieced together in every conceivable way
Children working under the direction of a sister in the Garden of the Convent du Sacre Coeur, near Paris. Before the war the Sisters of the convent cared for 30 girls from poor families of the neighborhood teaching them housework, etc. to enable them to earn a living. When war came the sisters fooered half their convent for a 50 bed hospital for soldiers, taking the children into their own inadequate quarters to make room, and nursing the soldiers themselves. They were unable to raise enough money to continue the work until they appealed to the American Red Cross which now contribute the supplies needed, clothing, sheets, blankets, etc
Peasant Villages in Roumania that were not absolutely stripped by the Germans, Bulgars and Turks, during the enemy occupation of the country during the last two years of War, to-day have a population that is able to dress respectably on holidays or when occasion demands. These youngsters, who were photographed by a Red Cross man in Roumania, represent the most prosperous element of the peasantry
Where Roumania is strong. It is the peasant women and men in which Roumania places her high hopes, for a regenerated nationalism. This is a type of the Transylvanian peasant woman. For five years she has taken a man's place in the field, workshop and factories. And her child does not show any neglect at that. American Red Cross workers in this district say that with a continuance of medical relief Roumania will soon regain her feet
Clothed children who lived in rags. One of the measures imposed by the Germans on the civil population of Roumania was an order compelling them to turn over practically all the cloth in the country that was being held for the manufacturing of garments. As a result a large percentage of the population was left in rags when the war finally ended. Children suffered especially in this respect. The group of youngsters shown in this picture are an example of the condition to which the country has been reduced. A large part of the American Red Cross mission's work in Roumania has been to clothe children such as these. Distribution stations have been established in all parts of the country, and many trainloads of supplies have been given out to the needy people
Summary
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: Roumania, children.
On caption card: (N.C.114)
Used in: Roumanian Relief Committee. Sept. 26, 1919.
Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
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Date
01/01/1919
Location
Romania
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