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The American Red Cross in touch with three generations. This family of Grandfather, Daughter and grandchild arrived recently from Amiens, being driven out by the bombardment. When they arrived in Southern France the child who was ill grew worse. Now the grandfather has obtained work and the American Red Cross will find lodgings and supply furniture and medical help. The picture shows the temporary quarters of the American Red Cross? Bureau of Refugees, in a room where supplies from the warehouse are stored

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

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

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

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

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

Hundreds of refugee families are now occupying the trenches vacated by the soldiers in the Balkans. This shows the interior of one of the dugout homes after it has been plastered with baked mud and straw and whitewashed. Much of the American Red Cross medical efforts are directed among these poor people, whose children are far from healthy under such living conditions

The American Red Cross Saves the Babies. At the opening of the Creche just established by the Belgian Commission of the Red Cross, for taking care, during the day, of small babies of women munition workers at one of the largest plants in France. Reading, from the left: Lt. Col. Ernest P. Bicknell, Commissioner for Belgium of the ARC, Lt. Co. Lebrun, Dr. Lambert, Mrs. Bicknell, Madame D'Ieteren, Major Wauters, M. Vandervelde, Belgian Ministre de l'intendance, civil and military

These two little tots were the last of the refugee children to be evacuated from the American Red Cross Hospital at Toul. They had been happy there and did not want to go, so they hid under a bed. All the children were taken under the care of the American Red Cross to Lyon, and the hospital subsequently used for American wounded

Jewish wards of Red Cross. Orphans of Jewish soldiers killed in the War while fighting for Roumania are now cared for at the American Red Cross Orphanage at Bucharest. These children are furnished clothing, food and given medical treatment by the Red Cross. Note the clean personal appearance of each child. All of them live according to American standards of sanitation

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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. Roumania.

On caption card: (12794)

Used in: T.T.C. Jr. Jan. 1920.

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

Temp note: Batch 11

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label_outline Explore Cross Orphanage, Bucharest, Paris

Chateau Hachette (S&O) General view. ARC tuberculosis sanatorium for women and children. Principally refugees

Inaugural Ceremonies of Pershing Stadium. The Athletes of the Nations-the Americans in the foreground

Trudeau Sanitarium, Hachette. A quiet hour under the pine trees. The children have a splendid place to play in the big park that surrounds the Trudeau Sanitarium at Hachette, near Paris. The manor house of Hachette is an AMERICAN RED CROSS hospital for tubercular women. In the grounds nearby barracks have been built where about 180 children are housed, each for a period of three months or more. They are under-nourished children of tubercular tendencies, many of whom have tubercular parents. They are brought from bad living conditions in the cities, and the good nourishment and outdoor life at Hachette go far to establish their health pemanently

Village women from Dartford, near London, visit American soldiers in new hospital just opened by American army there. Few of the visitors come empty-handed. They bring little gifts of all kinds for the soldiers, and the Red Cross usually commandeer their services, also for the distribution of comfort bags and other Red Cross material to distant parts of the grounds. All these things are carried about in "hospital wagons", which are sometimes pilled by the young women visitors, and sometimes by the convalescent Americans

La Turbie, France. This is a village built around a Roman tower. The picture was taken from the highest point of the Grand Corniche. This is the leave area for the personnel of the American Red Cross

The last American wounded arriving from the front at the Salisbury Hospital, erected by the American Red Cross at Southampton, England. They are unloaded by the boys of the Kentucky unit now on duty at this base hospital

[Native American mortuary customs: row of Indians carrying bodies over their shoulders to fires, platform with skeletons hanging above and bones below on benches, and groups of Indians standing around fires and poles hung with cloth or skins]

A corridor in the Amer. Military Hospital No. 1 at Neuilly, which is supported by the A.R.C. Member of A.R.C. Home Communication Service writing a letter for an Amer. Soldier

The launching of the "Amcross", Chester, Pennsylvania Members of the christening party on the launching stand. At the left are Mrs. Livingston Farrand and Miss Margaret Farrand, sponsor of the "Amcross"

[The Saussure monument of Chamonix, Chamonix Valley, France]

Open attack at St. Mihiel / L. Jonas, 1927.

Repacking and resorting boxes received from America in one of the American Red Cross warehouses in Paris

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