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Going to school in the desert. In the Sahara Desert boys and girls with books under their arms are not seen swinging along to little red brick school houses. American school children would look with wonder at their wooden slates carved deeply with verses from the Koran while they sat in some "al fresco" spot smoking cigarettes and chanting the age-old teachings of Mahomet to a sleepy master. They would wonder too if blindness was a physical characteristic but would find that the enormous percentage of children are so afflicted from the unsanitary conditions prevailing in this part of the world. The Junior Red Cross of America is preparing to educate and help some of these unfortunate children and has not forgotten to include them in its "World Service" program

Going to school in the desert. In the Sahara Desert boys and girls wit...

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: Jr. Red Cross, T.T. & C., R.C. Bulletin. Group title: Chi... More

The aftermath of war. In Poland there are thousands of children like this group who are not only parentless and homeless but hungry and emaciated with starvation. The shoes and clothing they wear came from American school children who are reaching out helping hands to them across the seas. The Junior Red Cross has sent its representatives into this stricken land with a message of hope to these lonely victims of war. Nourshing foods especially selected for their weakened bodies are reaching them and nurses and medical care also may save them but the new generation in Poland has been dwarfed and crippled by famine

The aftermath of war. In Poland there are thousands of children like t...

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: Jr. Red Cross, T.T. & C. Group title: Children, Poland. J... More

The youngest actor A movie star at eight years of age is the record of this little Arabian girl of Toggourt, Algeria. She was one of the actors in the American Red Cross film, "The children of the Sahara," which has just been completed in this desert country for the benefit of American school-children / / Photo by Capt. Merl LaVoy (Seattle).

The youngest actor A movie star at eight years of age is the record of...

Photograph shows girl in traditional dress. No. RC-924. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.

American children and their friends. At the Junior Red Cross of America home for destitute orphans in Podgoritza these Montenegrin war waifs knew the whole hearted generosity of American school children, and their desire to soften their tired lives with comforting gifts and sympathy. Until now, they have known little but hunger and drifting unclad from place to place. Now they are having lessons in the orphanage and learning to spin and weave and perform numberous useful tasks. Children of this backward country have suffered unbelievably during and since the war. Education was practically unknown here, and what few schools existed before the war, usually under Russian supervision, were demolished or the buildings commandeered for military purposes so that "Junior" aid is striking deep into the roots of their misery in offering them their first educational opportunities

American children and their friends. At the Junior Red Cross of Americ...

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: Junior Red Cross. Group title: Children, Montenegro. Gift... More

Belgian Girl Educated by Juniors. Educational opportunities for war orphans in foreign countries, as planned by the Junior Red Cross of America in its "Service" program, mean that this pretty young girl of Gheluwe, Flanders, and many more helpless children of the war zones will be taught ways and means of self supporting futures. Girls and boys left entirely alone in the world or with widowed mothers unfitted to suddenly provide for themselves and families of little ones are insured in hundreds of cases against actual poverty, for American school children are endowing funds in many European countries for their vocational education. Clothing from America is another contribution by this organization that is tiding over these helpless war victims through the discomforts of winter

Belgian Girl Educated by Juniors. Educational opportunities for war or...

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: Jr. Red Cross. Group title: Children. Belgium. Gift; Amer... More

Spring days in Flanders. As the season for marbles comes on in War, wrecked Flanders the orphan boys find some spot where the debris and marks of war have been cleared away and settle down to the spring "series" of this international boys' game. All of the clothing they are weraing came as a gift from American school children. In Ypres they are members of a school colony of war orphans that is maintained largely by the American Red Cross, assisted by the Junior branch of the organisation

Spring days in Flanders. As the season for marbles comes on in War, wr...

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: Jr. Red Cross. Group title: Children, Belgium. Gift; Amer... More

French children find Fairy land. A little letter came recently to Junior Red Cross of America Headquarters to Paris from these two French boys. It was intended for all American school children. From the ruins of Soissons, where they had lived through hardships that brought on symptoms of tuberculosis they were taken to the home of a fisherman's family on the shores of Brittany. Junior Red Cross funds financed this expedition of several hundred children, including these two lads. During three months they will paly and live in the open air, receive nourishing food and milk and have a chance to forget. It seem like fairy land to them and with inborn French politeness they have asked that their thanks be sent across the sea to those children who have not forgotten their lonely, miserable existences

French children find Fairy land. A little letter came recently to Juni...

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 Group title: Reconstruction, Chi... More

Where Montenegrian orphans are coming back. A group of Montenegrian war orphans, tocennervated sic from hunger to struggle for the courage to want to get well are now playing amid the palm gardens of Dalmatia and making mud pies along her beautiful seashore. They are guests of the Junior Red Cross of America and according to reports their health recovery is assued, being jautone more groups of lives to the credit of American school children

Where Montenegrian orphans are coming back. A group of Montenegrian wa...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Data: Jr. Red Cross, Sept. 21/1920. Red Cross bull. Sept. 27, 1920.... More

Queer shoes of Serbian school boy. Queer moccasins made of raw hides, pieces of old carpet and rags, compose most of the footware to be seen in Serbia to-day. Clothing of every sort is the greatest need of to-day in this land of distress. Children particularly in southern Serbia, are great sufferers, and lack of food and clothing are not the only things their frail, war-worn bodies contend with, lack of care and educational facilities are reducing them to little wild animals, and pitiable child vagrants. If the plans of the Jr. Red Cross of America becomes effective, all of these wandering, homeless children will be aided by funds sent by American school children. Vocational and industrial school centers will be established and maintained under Amercican superintendence, thus making these children over into the skilled labor so urgently needed by their country

Queer shoes of Serbian school boy. Queer moccasins made of raw hides, ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Data: Jr. Red Cross. T.T. & C. Group title: Children. Serbia. Gift;... More

Albanians honor the 'Stars And Stripes'. Albanian children this year turned out in full force to do honor to America's Fourth of July and hoped in that manner to convey across the seas to American school children their gratitude for aid and sympathy sent them in their distress. With the 'Stars and Stripes' displayed side by side with their own national colors these poorly clad and miserable little war victims made a creditable showing all over Albania and the natives gathered from far and wide to watch them. They have learned of American children largely through the Junior Red Cross which has heaped many benefits upon them and is now encouraging national educational revival for them

Albanians honor the 'Stars And Stripes'. Albanian children this year t...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Group Title: Jr. Red Cross. Children. Albania. Gift; American Natio... More

A town pump in south Serbia. This town pump is one of the best known promoters of disease in southern Serbia and there are plenty of others running it a close race in a land so out of step with modern ideas of sanitation. Under pre-war Turkish regime in this part of Serbia, now in Yugo-Slavia, civilization did not advance very rapidly and the welfare of the natives remained at a standstill for centuries. New ideas are beginning to seep in now and the Junior Red Cross of America is planning to get behind and push them. With a plan formulating for the industrial and vocational education of some of Serbia's 300,000 war orphans it is believed that American school children will be able to accomplish a great world good with their savings contributed for the relief of Europe's suffering children

A town pump in south Serbia. This town pump is one of the best known p...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Data: Jr. Red Cross July 1920. Group title: Children. Serbia. Gift;... More

Companionship of Misery. At least these Albanian mothers are not alone in their heartaches; each can look at other mothers whose children are also sufferers. They believe devoutly in the power of the Junior Red Cross of America Baby Clinic some miracle to perform and for that reason they sit patiently long hours awaiting opportunity to see the doctor or nurse in charge. In this country the pennies and dimes of American school children not only assuage momentary anxiety and suffering; they are raising helpless mothers up out of a fog of ignorance of modern hygiene and child welfare

Companionship of Misery. At least these Albanian mothers are not alone...

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: Jr. Red Cross, T.T. & C. Group title: Dispensary, Albania... More

American demonstrations in Albania. Showing some of the tiny Albanians of Tirana who marched in parades to do honor to America's Fourth of July this year. 'Free American' is like a star that shines always in the vision of the peoples of Europe that war has recently freed from bondage to foreign ruler-ship and any display of reviving national spirit always goes hand in hand with gratitude for the friendship of that great country.The demonstrations this year were made much by all the children for it is from American school children and their Junior Red Cross that so many blessings have come to them in their long period of hardshipand distress

American demonstrations in Albania. Showing some of the tiny Albanians...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Group Title: Jr. Red Cross. Children.Albania. Gift; American Nation... More

A Syrian school girl. The Junior Red Cross of America slogan of "Service" has been heard in the Holy Land, and this fourteen-year old girl in Mount Lebanon, Syria, is to realize all her ambitions and go to a real school through the desire of American School children to help the unfortunate of other lands. During the war she had been in an orphanage where by dint of courage and hard work she made sufficient progress to entitle her to enter the preparatory department of the American Girls' School in Beirut. Here she will be educated along lines fitting her to become a teacher and carry back a through knowledge of what the modern world is doing and thinking about social improvement, baby hygiene and welfare, sanitation, and many things that they are still new and strange in this part of the world

A Syrian school girl. The Junior Red Cross of America slogan of "Servi...

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: Junior Red Cross. Group title: Children, Palestine. Gift;... More

The Bath American. Le Bain American is the fancy label applied to an ordinary scrubbing and shower by French war orphans who have been initiated into the mysteries of hygiene by the Junior Red Cross of America welfare program. These two pictures show a group of them in Paris on their way back to homes in the devastated regions from a health pilgrimage to the south of France afforded them by funds of American school children. They left their miserable surroundings in mid winter and lived during the past few months under the blue sky of the south, out of doors most of the time and with good food and the care of kindly peasant women. They were underfed, nervous wrecks on the fringes of tuberculosis and bronchial disease when they left. When they return now to their mothers, worn and weary with the drudgery of hard work that the war has brought them, they bring a breath of healthy happiness and the sunshine of renewed vitality to brighten the sordid homes in which they must live for the present

The Bath American. Le Bain American is the fancy label applied to an o...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Data: T.T. & C. Group title: Reconstruction. Children. France. On c... More

Polish orphans dance for American Juniors. The eight girls incostume, war orphans of Poland, are anxious to show their gratitude to American school children for their generosity, arranged an evening of national dances in honor of their kind friends across the seas. They live in an orphanage in Warsaw that has been aided by the Junior Red Cross of America. One evening they appeared at American Red Cross headquarters in the costumes here pictured and danced folk dances familiar to the peasants from childhood. When they had finished their little program they asked that their young friends in America know that it was done in gratitude for the food and clothing sent them

Polish orphans dance for American Juniors. The eight girls incostume, ...

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. Excl. to Keystone View Co. until June 12th.... More

Shining their first shoes. At the American Red Cross school colony in Ypres these Belgian war orphans are having the experience of shining their first real shoes. The shoes came with a supply of distribution that included much needed clothing from American school children for these homeless orphans of war. The leather shoes are for Sundays and holidays, taking place of the everyday wooden one, and always they are polished like mirrors

Shining their first shoes. At the American Red Cross school colony in ...

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: Jr. Red Cross. Group title: Children, Belgium. Gift; Amer... More

The youngest actor A movie star at eight years of age is the record of this little Arabian girl of Toggourt, Algeria. She was one of the actors in the American Red Cross film, "The children of the Sahara," which has just been completed in this desert country for the benefit of American school-children / / Photo by Capt. Merl LaVoy (Seattle).

The youngest actor A movie star at eight years of age is the record of...

Photograph shows girl in traditional dress. No. RC-924. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.