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WW1 - 1914-1918
" Looks of War photographers "
" Regards de photographes de Guerre"
9000 photos
438 pages
CITIES and VILLAGES
ENJOYMENTS and PAINS
MARSEILLE
page 3
Marseille
Col. Martindale (U.S.A.) & staff at Camp Covington Marseille, France
28 Feb. 1919
Photographer : Guerin
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Dr. O.H. Sellenings in charge of the ARC Children's dispensary at Marseille, and Miss Ruth Heyeman, on the grounds of the Playground of the Marseilles Child Welfare Exposition
June 1918
Photographer: ARC Commission to France
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
[close up]
Playgrounds were one of the features of the Red Cross Baby Saving Shows in Lyon and Marseille.
173,000 people attended the exhibit in Lyon.
This picture shows a tug of war on the Boys playgrounds.
There was a playground for girls too, and another for babies,
each in charge of Americans, trained recreational experts
2 October 1918
Photographer: ARC Commission to France
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Playgrounds were one of the features of the Red Cross Baby Saving Shows in Lyon and Marseille.
173,000 people attended the exhibit in Lyon.
This picture shows a tug of war on the Boys playgrounds.
There was a playground for girls too, and another for babies,
each in charge of Americans, trained recreational experts
2 October 1918
Photographer: ARC Commission to France
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Little models,
showing the proper way to take care of cows from the meadow to the dairies were shown
at the American Red Cross Child Welfare Exhibition at Marseille,
Mothers, big and little, carrying babies too little to walk and leading others by the hands,
examined these with minutest care while an American Red Cross nurse explained
more filly than could the captions and posters
May 1918
Photographer: ARC
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
At the cinema show, given as a feature of the Child Welfare Exposition, at Marseille, May 22nd.
Films showing the hygiene of the child, methods of averting tuberculosis,
the fly danger and other films were as exciting to these French children
as any Charlie Chaplin or any Mary Pickford to our American children
23 September 1918
Photographer: ARC
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
The Child Welfare Exhibition, given by the A.R.C. at Marseille showed the best ways of bathing, feeding babies, caring for their health, preparing their milk, dressing them,
putting them to bed and doing all the hundred and one other things they need
May 1918
Photographer: A.R.C. Commission to France
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Children of all ages from the toddlers to High School girls came in throngs to the Baby Saving Exhibition given by the American Red Cross at Marseille during the latter part of May
23 September 1918
Photographer: ARC
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Children of all ages from the toddlers to High School girls came in throngs
to the Baby Saving Exhibition given by the American Red Cross
at Marseille during the latter part of May
23 September 1918
Photographer: ARC
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Every morning groups of school children were taken to the Baby Saving Exhibition
given by the American Red Cross at Marseilles as part of their education.
No where in France is this Exhibition, which sets forth the laws of hygiene, so needed as in Marseille, where the population has doubled since the beginning of the war,
which does not include the enormous number of folks who float in from all over Southern Europe
May 1918
Photographer: A.R.C. Commission to France
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Playground in the Marseille Child Welfare Exposition given by the ARC.
The idea of a public playground supported by public funds and open to every child
is an innovation in France.
Group of Marseille children who enjoy American games as taught them
by ARC playground experts seen in background of picture
June 1918
Photographer : ARC Commission to France
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
A side-show outside the Marseille Child Welfare Exposition, given by the ARC.
The interest shown by the Marseille children in the American games taught them
by the ARC playground experts was great, but they still enjoy their own native sport of donkey riding
June 1918
Photographer : ARC Commission to France
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Playground in the Marseille Child Welfare Exposition given by the ARC.
The idea of a public playground supported by public funds
and open to everychild is an innovation in France.
American playground experts belonging to the ARC teach the children American games
with special emphasis on team work, an element nothighly developed in French children's play.
One of the games for girls
June 1918
Photographer: ARC
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
American Red Cross playground expert with the children at the Child Welfare Exhibition
held by the American Red Cross at Marseille
between 1914 and 1920
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Types of Marseille boys who had a good time on the playground
during the ARC child welfare exposition at Marseille.
Marseille is especially in need of social work of this kind owing to the crowded
and unhealthy conditions due to the increase in population since the war
July 1918
Photographer: A.R.C. Commission to France
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Wash Your Teeth.
Thus the A.R.C. warned the little French children who came to the Baby Saving Exhibit
given at Marseille from May 22 to June 10
August 1918
Photographer: A.R.C. Commission to France
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)