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CITIES and VILLAGES

ENJOYMENTS and PAINS

LES HALLES

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Les Halles

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Château Les Halles.

Home for convalescent repatrie children at St. Foy l'Argentiere.

Washing up is as painful a process for French refugee children

as for American boys even when it is done in a chateau

May 1918

Photographer: R.T. Townsend, 5/8/18. W.J. Pearce/Donalson, 6/18/18. R. Gartland, 18-6

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

children enfant chateau les halles sainte foy argentiere WW1 1914 1918 guerre red cross croix rouge

Château Les Halles.

Home for convalescent repatrie children at St. Foy l'Argentiere.

Teddy bears are popular in France too.

The children at the chateau wear wooden soled sabots outdoors and felt slippers indoors

between 1914 and 1920

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Château Les Halles, home for convalescent repatrie children at St. Foy l'Argentiere.

The entrance to the property.

The road winds a circuitous way up to the chateau on the mountain side

between 1914 and 1920

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Staff of nurses at Château Les Halles ARC hospital for refugee and repatrie children near Lyon.

The group includes both French and ARC workers

July 1918 

Photographer: ARC Commission to France

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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A splendid place to play.

Children and ARC nurse having a good time in the grounds of Château Les Halles

ARC hospital for refugee and repatrie children near Lyon

July 1918

Photographer: ARC Commission to France

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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On parade.

Loyal little friends of the ARC at Château Les Halles,

ARC Hospital for refugee and repatrie children near Lyon

July 1918 

Photographer: ARC Commission to France

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Playing that he is an officer of the ARC the little refugees receives the salute of his playmates

in the grounds of Château Les Halles, a large hospital for refugee and repatrie children

on a fine old estate near Lyon

July 1918

Photographer: ARC Commission to France

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

children enfant chateau les halles sainte foy argentiere WW1 1914 1918 guerre red cross croix rouge

Château Les Halles.

Home for convalescent repatrie children at St. Foy l-Argentiere.

 It is nearly four long years since these children had had so many toys or been so happy.

Some of them never had so many toys even in peace-time

between 1914 and 1920

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

children enfant chateau les halles sainte foy argentiere WW1 1914 1918 guerre red cross croix rouge

Children at Château Les Halles. A.R.C. Hospital for refugee and repatrie children near Lyon, welcoming a new A.R.C. worker who has just arrived.

He is a dentist and their being so happy to see him

probably indicates their unfamiliarity with the attention of dentists

between 1914 and 1920

Photographer: M. Lachman

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Interior of ARC warehouse at Lyon. This warehouse stores provisions for Château Les Halles (hospital for refugee and repatrie children)

Chateau Holtzman (hospital for contagious diseases among refugee children)

La Chaux (home for refugee children) and St. Eugenie (tuberculosis hospital)

July 1918 

Photographer: ARC Commission to France

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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At the ARC warehouses Lyon.

Leading cases of supplies for one of the ARC institutions in the neighborhood.

This warehouse stores provisions for Château Les Halles (hospital for refugee and repatrie children)

Chateau Holtzman (hospital for contagious diseases among refugee children)

La Chaux (home for refugee children) and St. Eugenie (tuberculosis hospital)

24 July 1918

Photographer: ARC Commission to France

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Loading flour at the ARC warehouse at Lyon.

This warehouse stores and ship supplies for all the ARC institution in the district-Château Les Halles (hospital for refugee and repatrie children)

Chateau Holtzman (for contagious diseases among refugee children)

 La Chaux (home for refugee children) St. Eugenie (tuberculosis hospital)

July 1918

Photographer: ARC Commission to France

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

holtzman la chaux lyon eugenie sainte chateau les halles sainte foy argentiere WW1 1914 1918 guerre red cross croix rouge

Storing flour in the ARC warehouse at Lyon which supplies all the ARC institutions in the district, the Château Les Halles (hospital for repatrie and refugee children)

 Chateau Holtzman (for contagious diseases among refugee children)

La Chaux (home for refugee children) and St. Eugenie (tuberculosis hospital)

July 1918

Photographer: ARC Commission to France

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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