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Juniors in America befriend him. Junior Red Cross children in America are helping school children in foreign lands by their gifts of warm clothing and wholesomely prepared food to recover their badly impaired health and resume their education. This Belgian lad of Gheluve is one of many boys in this devastated region to receive warm knitted mufflers, socks, underwear and gloves and go to school in the barracks buildings that were turned over to the district by the American Red Cross
Belgian children in the colony of the Comite Franco-American pour la Protection des Enfants de la Frontiere at Oulins singing a patriotic hymn. These children have been gathered from close proximity to the firing line. They were driven from their homes by bombardment which has laid many of their villages in ruins
The children in the asylum at Toul for children from the front take their religious training. Here they are seen in class being instructed by the priest in residence according to an arrangement with the French authorities. Thr priest himself is a Belgian refugee
A table cover serves as overcoat for this Serbian schoolboy. The ancient vintage of his trousers and shoes is only too apparent. Regular clothes will make life really worth living and that he may have them the American Red Cross is conducting a nationwide collection of used clothing, shoes and blankets for the refugees in devastated allied countries
American Red Cross dispensaries for children in the ruins town of Gebenvilliers. Doctor Kilham of the American Fund for French wounded cooperated. Doctor Kilham has found that one of her little patients is without shoes and is fitting him out with a new pair to protect him against the mud and snow
American Red Cross dispensaries for children in the ruins town of Gebenvilliers. Doctor Kilham of the American Fund for French wounded cooperated. Doctor Kilham has found that one of her little patients is without shoes and is fitting him out with a new pair to protect him against the mud and snow
New cloths from American 'Juniors'. When Junior Red Cross of America supplies for the suffering children of Europe finally reach their destination this is the way they bring smiles. In Tirana, Albania these war waifs have received their share of clean, comfortable American clothing, some of it used before and some it spick span new, but all of it in good condition and sent along with the sympathy of American children
Shine 'em up. A "shine" in Flanders is not usually the operation that it is on Broadway and takes place much less frequently. When school children in this war torn part of the world begin to make themselves neat and tidy they take off their little wooden shoes and scour them with something akin to a sapolio until they gleam like a kitchen table. But these orphan boys in Ypres have just received their first leather boots from a distribution of clothing and shoes sent to their school colony by the Junior Red Cross of America and are seen as their own boot blacks with possibly more blacking on faces and hands than on shoes
Wervico (Flandre occidentale) Belgium. Girl's school in two barracks. Supplied by American Red Cross. 160 girls attend. Boys school has been restored and equipped and Hospital has been set up by American Red Cross
Where the mufflers go. School children in Belgium wear the characteristic wooden shoes that are so common through the Flemish portion of this war torn country. This boy is typical of the sort of chilfren who are wearing the caps, mufflers and woolen socks sent to European school children by the Junior Red Cross of America
Summary
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Paris Office.
Data: Jr. R.C. May 1920.
Group title: Belgium, Children.
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
belgium
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mufflers
european school children
school children
flemish portion
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library of congress
Date
01/01/1920
Location
belgium
Source
Library of Congress
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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