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Soap not soup. At the Junior Red Cross of America Orphanage and Agricultural School in Collestrada, Italy, soap making is in the "curriculum." Boys and girls war-worn and alone in the world are being trained in this school for occupations that will fit them for Italy's skilled workers of the future. Farming, polutry and cattle raising, soil treatment are the main studies, branching off into domestic science, cheese-making and milking for the more delicate girls

Soap not soup. At the Junior Red Cross of America Orphanage and Agricu...

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: T.T. & C. Jr. Red Cross, June 21/20. Group title: Jr. Red... More

Orphans with Startling 'Futurests' Tendencies. 'Joka' one of the lost children in the Junior Red Cross of America orphanage in Podgoritza, Montenegro, let his playful instincts run riot when he stuck his hands in a can of blue paint and decorated the pet white rabbit of the School until it looked like a living piece of rultra futurism of one of the best Schools. Now he is doing penance and watching the good children at play in the courtyard below, dreaming perhaps of a world of blue rabbits and purple cats

Orphans with Startling 'Futurests' Tendencies. 'Joka' one of the lost ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Data: Junior Red Cross. Group title: Children. Montenegro. Gift; Am... More