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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

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

American Red Cross distributing food to American soldiers who have just come from a stay of 28 days in the trenches. During that time they were entirely on French rations and frequently got nothing on account of the severity of the fighting. The men came at night to the camions and carried away the American Red Cross supplies which they had for breakfast the next morning

Convalescent American soldiers at work in the fields on a farm provided for them by the American Red Cross somewhere behind the lines in the American sector. The Red Cross thus hastens their recovery and adds to the available food supply in France

Convalescent American soldiers at work in the fields on a farm provided for them by the American Red Cross somewhere behind the lines in the American sector. The Red Cross thus hastens their recovery and adds to the available food supply in France

In the kitchen preparing food for the wounded American soldiers in American Army Base Hospital No. 41, at St. Denis. This was formerly a school for about 500 daughters of French army officers and officers of the Legion of Honor, and has now been loaned to the American Red Cross, which has equipped the building for the use of the American Army

Boys' class in shop work under a French instructor at Issy-le-Molineaux, one of the colonies established by the Comite Franco-American pour la protection des Enfants de la Frontiere. The Comite in close cooperation with the American Red Cross cares for about 1500 children from the invaded districts, many of whom have lost their parents through the war. They are given a good home schooling and industrial training

In Paris and throughout France work is being done by the American Red Cross to save child life at a time when France, bearing the brunt of a long war, needs every citizen. The welcome sight of the khaki of the Red Cross Doctor in the poor sections of French towns is a signal for the gathering of the children

The American troops poured over to the American Red Cross booth for cookies, fudge, fruit, etc. at the carnival held on Oct. 13 in the grounds of the old Chateau Raoul (in Chateauroux under the auspices of the American Red Cross and local French relief societies to raise funds for the purposed of supplying the babies, the sick and the wounded with milk and eggs this winter

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

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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

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01/01/1918
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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

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