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CITIES and VILLAGES

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ENJOYMENTS and PAINS

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EPERNAY

Epernay

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Affiche de la Comtesse de St. Maurice

5 Sept 1914

Photographer : Mr. Daus, 29 Mai 18.

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Miss Ely, Director of the Canteen; and a group of workers, at Epernay

25 November 1918

Photographer: H.E. 50751, Miss Mac Murray

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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French soldiers leaving the canteen at Epernay after a good breakfast

1918

Photographer: H.E. 50751, Miss Mac Murray

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Exterior of the canteen at Epernay,

managed by the Misses Lansing, of Washington, D.C.,

sisters of Mr. Robert Lansing, Secretary of State.

 The American Red Cross has made it possible

for thousands of soldiers to be fed here daily and to be entertained in the evening

26 January 1919

Photographer : William C. Dorsey.

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Epernay. Miss Ely and a group of her canteen workers outside the door of the main sale

1 August  1918

Photographer: H.E. 50751, Miss Mac Murray

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Epernay, France.

The Misses Lansing,

on the steps of the American Red Cross canteen at Epernay, France,  which they manage.

Both workers are wearing the Croix de Guerre which the French government awarded them.

26 January 1919

Photographer : William C. Dorsey.

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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At the canteen at Epernay

1 August 1918

Photographer: H.E. 50751, Miss Mac Murray

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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The Misses Emma and Catherine Lansing on the steps of the American Red Cross canteen

at Epernay, which they manage

26 January 1919

Photographer : William C. Dorsey.

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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The Misses Emma and Catherine Lansing

on the steps of the American Red Cross canteen at Epernay, which they manage

Lansing sisters with French and American doctors at Canteen, Epernay.

26 January 1919

Photographer : William C. Dorsey.

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Epernay, France.

The Misses Lansing manage the American Red Cross canteen at Epernay, France.

Beside the regular Red Cross girls they have many willing hands to help them, Doughboys and Poilu

26 January 1919

Photographer : William C. Dorsey.

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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American Red Cross canteen at Epernay, France, managed by the Misses Lansing,

sisters of the Secretary of State, Mr. Robert Lansing

26 January 1919

Photographer : William C. Dorsey.

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Left to right: the Misses Emma and Katherine Lansing, sisters of Sec. of State Robert Lansing,

who are in France doing Red Cross work.

This is the first photograph of them in uniform.

They are going to establish aid stations for the soldiers at the front

1918

Photographer : Underwood and Underwood

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Photograph shows Emma Sterling Lansing (1872-1956),

sister of Robert Lansing, United States Secretary of State

who served with the Red Cross  in Europe during World War I.

between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920

Bain News Service, publisher

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)

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