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CANTEENS

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Paris

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American Red Cross Metropolitan Canteens

Canteen at Gare Montparnasse. - Paris

between 1917 and 1919

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Canteen at front for French poilus

between 1917 and 1920

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Saint Brieuc

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Saint Brieuc,

 Interior American Red Cross canteen where boys are fed on their way to Brest

3 April 1919

Photographer: Coles. [Henri A. Coles], ARC.

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Saint Brieuc

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Saint Brieuc,

Canteen which American Red Cross operates and where the soldiers stop off enroute to Brest

3 April 1919

Photographer : Coles. [Henri A. Coles], ARC.

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Brest

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Brest, France.

Interior of the Officers' Recreation Room at Kehorre Hospital, Brest, France.

This is operated by the American Red Cross and is a huge success.

All comforts, including fine, big chairs, writing materials, games and music

3 April 1919

Photographer: Coles. [Henri A. Coles]

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Brest

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Brest, France.

Exterior of the American Red Cross rest room at Kehorre Hospital, Brest, France. Soldiers on the way home to the States stop off here on the last leg of their journey.

It had proved a very satisfactory Hut, and is always crowded with officers and men about to embark

3 April 1919

Photographer: Coles. [Henri A. Coles]

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Brest

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Brest, France.

Interior of the Rest Room for the American Red Cross Canteen workers at Brest Dock Canteen.

The Girls are: Miss Beatrice Allen, of New York City; Miss Sara Anderson, of Centreville, Miss.;

and Miss Anna Kaye, of Lake Geneva, Wis.

3 April 1919

Photographer: Coles. [Henri A. Coles]

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Brest

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Brest, France.

 Interior of the kitchen at the Rue du Gaz Canteen of the American Red Cross.

The Red Cross Girls are, Miss Pauline Perry, of Kansas City, Mo.,

and Miss Marjorie Allen of South Orange, N.J.

3 April 1919

Photographer: Coles. [Henri A. Coles]

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Brest

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Brest, France.

 Interior of the Fort Begnen Officers' Club.

The American Red Cross operates this and the Red Cross Girls are:

Mrs. Lucy Phisten, New York City. Miss Sallie Lacy, Washinton, D.C.

and Miss Lois Fellows, Montreal, Canada

3 April 1919

Photographer: Coles. [Henri A. Coles]

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Brest

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Brest, France.

 Interior of the American Red Cross Officers' Restroom at the Kerhorre, Hospital, Brest, France

3 April 1919

Photographer: Coles. [Henri A. Coles]

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Brest

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Brest, France.

American Red Cross Recreation Hut, Kehorre Hospital, Brest, France.

Convalescent soldiers always enjoy the latest magazines and papers, and a chance to write home.

The atmosphere has been made homelike by the Red Cross girls on duty there

3 April 1919

Photographer: Coles. [Henri A. Coles]

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Brest

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Brest, France.

of the American Red Cross Officers' rest room and Canteen at Kehorre Hospital, Brest, France.

Highly artistic effects have been developed by very simple arrangement of plain furniture, and the officers are always very comfortable in the cozy atmosphere of the place

3 April 1919

Photographer: Coles. [Henri A. Coles]

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Brest

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Elisted Men and officers enjoying a dance in the American Red Cross canteen rest room

at the embarkation pier in Brest shortly before going aboard the transports for home.

The Red Cross workers dash from canteen counter to the dance room in a frantic effort

to satisfy the hungry as well as the terpsichorean inclined

29 April 1919

Photographer: Guerin.

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Log fire place in Rest Room of newly erected Red Cross Canteen, best in A.E.F.

on the docks at the head of Embarkation Pier No. 5, Brest, Finistere, France

1 March 1919.

Source Collection

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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A canteen at an Aviation camp of the American Army - somewhere in France.

Showing finished and unfinished part of canteen under auspices of American Red Cross.

This canteen has made a warm cheerful centre for our soldiers in France

between 1917 and 1920

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

Brest

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Picture of a French camp which was taken near American Red Cross front canteen

between 1917 and 1920

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Châlons sur Marne

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Châlons sur Marne Canteen.

A corner of the Lavoratory; Châlons Canteen, bombproof shelter

December 1917

Photographer : Archibald Hopkins

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Châlons sur Marne

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Châlons sur Marne Canteen.

December 1917

Photographer : Archibald Hopkins

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Châlons sur Marne

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Canteen of Châlons sur Marne.

One of the dispensing pavilions

Photographer: Archibald Hopkins.

December 1917

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Front view American Red Cross canteen at American training camp in France

between 1917 and 1920

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Front view American Red Cross canteen at American training camp in France

between 1917 and 1920

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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American Red Cross Metropolitan Canteen.

"Poilus" being fed at the Gare Montparnasse, between trains

between 1917 and 1920

 Photographer 

: A.R.C. Headquarters in Paris.

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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American Red Cross Metropolitan Canteen. "Poilus" being fed at the Gare Montparnasse, between trains

between 1917 and 1920

 Photographer 

: A.R.C. Headquarters in Paris.

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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