Playgrounds were one of the features of the Red Cross Baby Saving Shows in Lyons and Marseilles. 173,000 people attended the exhibit in Lyons. This picture shows a tug of war on the Boys playgrounds. There was a playground for girls too, and another for babies, each in charge of Americans, trained recreational experts

American playground experts belonging to the American Red Cross with the children on the playground at Marseille. The large Child Welfare Exposition given by the ARC

Playground in the Marseilles Child Welfare Exposition given by the ARC. The idea of a public playground supported by public funds and open to everychild is an innovation in France. American playground experts belonging to the ARC teach the children American games with special emphasis on team work, an element nothighly developed in French children's play. One of the games for girls

American Red Cross playground expert with the children at the Child Welfare Exhibition held by the American Red Cross at Marseilles

At the Junior Red Cross playgrounds Paris. The French children at the Junior Red Cross playgrounds on the Paris fortifications were so eager to make friends with the Junior Red Cross photographer who came out to take their pictures that they refused to leave his side. Fortunately there was another camera present that snapped them, photographer and all

The American playground. Mademoiselle Pesty of the Junior Red Cross explaining the best points about the model playground of Rheims to the French children at the Roubeix sic France-American Child Welfare exhibit in April 1921. It was one of the most popular exhibits in the whole exposition

A French baby show in a prison. The Punch and Judy show, proved one of the delights for the children who flocked to the American Red Cross child welfare exhibit held in the French industrial city of Roubaix in the spring of 1921. Practical demonstrations in the care of the children playground models and health rules for mothers were dominating features of the show

Playgrounds were one of the features of the Red Cross Baby Saving Shows in Lyons and Marseilles. 173,000 people attended the exhibit in Lyons. This picture shows a tug of war on the Boys playgrounds. There was a playground for girls too, and another for babies, each in charge of Americans, trained recreational experts

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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.
Used in: St. Nicholas Mag., 10/2/18.
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 5

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