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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

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.

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

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

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

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.