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Picture taken to illustrate lessons in the care of the teeth. To be used in American Red Cross Child Welfare Exhibition
Picture taken to illustrate lessons in the care of the teeth. To be used in American Red Cross Child Welfare Exhibition
Picture taken to illustrate lessons in the care of the teeth. To be used in American Red Cross Child Welfare Exhibition
Picture taken to illustrate lessons in the care of the teeth. To be used in American Red Cross Child Welfare Exhibition
The Toothbrush in Serbia. The photographer arrived at the American Red Cross orphanage at Belgrade just when some newly arrived children were studying these posters. The posters are in every part of the orphanage grounds and in an attractive colorful way they show the advantages of using a toothbrush, of sleeping with the windows open, and other rules of hygiene. The posters are much more effective in convincing the children than lectures or rules. Toothbrushes were unknown in Serbia, except among a few traveled people but these children are growing up disciples of a new national standard in personal hygiene. The American Red Cross dispensaries in Serbia promote the use of toothbrushes also, and the custom of cleaning the teeth is gradually gaining ground
Summary
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-Serbia.
On caption card: (12923)
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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american red cross
serbia
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toothbrush
children
rules
hygiene
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library of congress
france
paris
Date
01/01/1920
Location
Serbia
Source
Library of Congress
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