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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
Albanian War Orphans. Group of Albanian war orphans at Scutari. This orphanage is conducted by Italian sisters of charity in co operation with the American Red Cross. Most of the clothing and food for these children was furnished by the Americans
At Sascut, Roumania. The American Red Cross has established an orphanage. These children did not know what it was to play until the Red Cross workers taught them some American games. Now they gather on the hillside near the Orphanage everyday, go through the drill of Calisthenics and play for an hour. Most of them are War Orphans
Queen Marie of Rumania. Queen Marie, Roumania watching Rumanian war orphans cared for by A.R.C. playing American Red Cross orphanage in Bucharest, the capital of Roumania 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
American Red Cross Orphanage in Romania. There were over 25,000 motherless and fatherless little tots in Romania, many of whom were cared for by the American Red Cross Mission
This little Roumanian orphan, a charge at the American Red Cross institution in Bucharest, was not sure what the black box in the hands of the photographer would do. She is a pure type of Roumanian peasant child. Under American standards of child welfare, youngsters such as her develop excellent health
To counteract the results of war conditions the American Red Cross has established a dispensary in the courtyard of an old Roman tower at Marseille. A physician with several nurses and their aides is in attendance to give advice to mothers and their children
Children returning from a country walk to the Sanatorium of La Jonchere for delicate children near Paris. This is one of the colonies established by the Comite Franco-American pour la Protection des Enfants de la Frontiere, which, with aid from the American Red Cross, provides a home and education for about 1500 children made destitute by the war
Petrograd Children's Colony at Turgoyak, Siberia, maintained by the American Red Cross. This group of five sisters and brothers are orphans and made their way from Omsk to Vladivostok just how no one knows. The Red Cross found them and is putting them in the newly established children's home on Russian Island
In an old Roman building at Sascut, Roumania, the American Red Cross founded an orphanage, where more than a hundred War Orphans are quartered. It is under the patronage of Queen Marie, who has taken a personal interest in the American Red Cross work for children in her country
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: Children. Roumania.
On caption card: (7C)
Used in: Exclusive Junior Red Cross indef.
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
Source
Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "American National Red Cross photograph collection," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/717_anrc.html