Fascinated by the playground model "Alex", a fourteen years old working boy at ... can't tear himself away from the American Red Cross Child Welfare Exhibition. Alex has been working since he was eleven years old and now says with pride "On account of the high cost of living I now get four and a half francs a day"

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Commission to France.
Group title: Child Welfare, France.
On caption card: 3328.
Date received: 15 August 1918.
Data: Mr. Wharton, 8/29. Children's Bureau 9/20/18. Mrs. Bessie Brewer. 10/28/18. Miss E. Titsel. 10/28/18. returned.
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 18