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An American Red Cross worker teaching games to the children in the Garden of the Convent du Sacre Coeur, near Paris. Before the war the Sisters of the convent cared for 30 girls from poor families of the neighborhood teaching them housework, etc. to enable them to earn a living. When war came the sisters fooered half their convent for a 50 bed hospital for soldiers, taking the children into their own inadequate quarters to make room, and nursing the soldiers themselves. They were unable to raise enough money to continue the work until they appealed to the American Red Cross which now contribute the supplies needed, clothing, sheets, blankets, etc

An American Red Cross worker teaching games to the children in the Garden of the Convent du Sacre Coeur, near Paris. Before the war the Sisters of the convent cared for 30 girls from poor families of the neighborhood teaching them housework, etc. to enable them to earn a living. When war came the sisters fooered half their convent for a 50 bed hospital for soldiers, taking the children into their own inadequate quarters to make room, and nursing the soldiers themselves. They were unable to raise enough money to continue the work until they appealed to the American Red Cross which now contribute the supplies needed, clothing, sheets, blankets, etc

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Summary

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name from LC-A6199-4104.
Source of original on caption card: ARC Commission to France.
Group title: Refugee children, France.
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 5

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Date

01/01/1918
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Location

France
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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

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