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Types from the child ration line at one of the American Red Cross relief stations in Bucharest
[Aunt Harriett McClintock at her home near Sumterville, Alabama, with great grandchildren]
Patrick Henry Southard, 62724 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
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The family are having a Sunday morning picnic near the old mill on the little river. Junior Red Cross Home for War Orphans, Perigny, France
A picnic at the Junior Red Cross home for War Orphans at Perigny, France
Some of the Family of War Orphans supported by the Junior Red Cross at Perigny, France
Outdoor games at the Junior Red Cross home for War Orphans, Perigny, France
The 17 War Orphans at the Junior Red Cross Home, Perigny, France
Happy looking little French children but without any known ties in the world. They are some of the unclaimed children sent back from Germany. They are now being taken care of by the American Red Cross Hospital at Evian until all danger of measles and diptheria is gone. They will be sent on to French homes near Lyons
Buffalo, New York. Laura and Frank Czaya, a couple of Polish descent, in the living room of the home which they share with Laura's mother, aunt, and brother, in Depew. Frank is home on a ten-day furlough. Laura works in the nearby Symington-Gould plant
Chateau des Halles. Home for convalescent repatrie children at St. Foy l'Argentiere. Teddy bears are popular in France too. The children at the chateau wear wooden soled sabots outdoors and felt slippers indoors
Group of French school children in charge of a French sister about to start for the barraquement at the Porte de Versailles, outside the Paris fortifications, where the American Red Cross co-operates with the "Oeuvre de la Chaussee du Maine" in helping to establish the health of delicate children by means of outdoor play and work in individual garden plots
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
Summary
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 range.
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
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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