After the distrilbution of presents the American Santa Claus tells the Eng. orphan boys all about the American Red Cross and the children in Amer who belong to it and delight to work for it. The scene is at the big Amer. Base Hosp. at Dartford, near London, where the Amer. soliders gave a number of llittle Christmas parties for the boys of an English orphan asylum near the hospital. There was a tiny Christmas tree, surmounted by the Stars & Stripes, and a Red Cross present for every soldier and every child. The Red Cross woman helping Santa Claus is Mrs. Arthur Robinson of Baltimore
Summary
Title and note information from Red Cross caption card.
Group title: Recreation, Eng.
Data: Central, Pacific, Atlantic, Mr. Redding, Northern, S.W. New England, Pa. Lake, Potomac. 12/18.
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 21
Tags
Date
01/01/1918
Location
dartford
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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