When their mothers work in the factories, the French school children have to get their noon day meal at school. American Red Cross doctors, working in the Villette district of Paris found that the school children weren't getting enough to eat, so the Red Cross is supplementing the school canteen ration with American flour, sugar, beans, ham, condensed milk, tinned beef and cheese
Summary
Title, date and notes from caption card for related, adjacent negative: LC-A6196-2142.
Group title: Children.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card: A.R.C. Headquarters in Paris.
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 14
Tags
american red cross
paris
glass negatives
photo
french school children
school children weren t
school canteen ration
school
american flour
cross doctors
ultra high resolution
high resolution
world war i
wwi
ww1
education
classroom
library of congress
france
Date
01/01/1918
Location
france
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "American National Red Cross photograph collection," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/717_anrc.html