WW1 - 1914-1918
" Looks of War photographers "
" Regards de photographes de Guerre"
9000 photos
438 pages
CITIES and VILLAGES
ENJOYMENTS and PAINS
PAU
Pau
A corner of AMERICAN RED CROSS Canteen at Pau,
showing an American Red Cross worker carrying coffee from kitchen to Allied soldiers,
arriving by midnight train
12 July 1918
Photographer: M. Guerin.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Dortoir established by the AMERICAN RED CROSS at Pau for soldiers of the Allied nations
who are passing through Pau.
Here any soldier is furnished free of charge with a comfortable bed for the night
12 July 1918
Photographer: M. Guerin.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Some patients at Pau and their pet peacock
29 August 1918
Photographer: ARC
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
American Red Cross Canteen at Pau.
Here soldiers arriving on trains at night can always find something to eat and drink
as this canteen is kept open the entire night.
French soldiers and an American Red Cross worker are shown at the entrance to Canteen,
which before the war was a garage and has been utilized for war work as has every available building near stations in France
July 1918
Photographer: ARC Commission to France
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Hospital at Pau.
French ladies serving soup to the convalescent patients
29 August 1918
Photographer: ARC
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
American soldiers being given dinner
in a garden of one of the AMERICAN RED CROSS worker's at Pau.
This is an unexpected side of the war which is very much appreciated by American soldiers
12 July 1918
Photographer: M. Guerin.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Sisters leaving for market to purchase supplies for Convent
which is used as a temporary home for refugees arriving in Pau.
This Convent is aided by the American Red Cross in its care of refugees.
An American Red Cross worker is shown consulting with sisters
2 August 1918
Photographer: ARC Commission to France
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
American Red Cross workers in the storehouse at Pau.
This is the center from which the American Red Cross sends blankets furniture
and supplies of many kinds to the nearby refugee settlements at Lourdes, Eaubonne, etc.
July 1918
Photographer: Mr. John A. Chamberlain
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
American Red Cross workroom at Pau
where refugee women are employed in making articles for the arm.
In this way they are enabled to maintain their independence
5 September 1918
Photographer: ARC Commission to France
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
The American Red Cross vestiaire at Pau.
Here the refugees are provided with clothes of which they are greatly in need,
from supplies of garments mainly sent from America
July 1918
Photographer: ARC Commission to France
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Refugees eating in the dining room of a Catholic Convent at Pau.
Families are taken into this Convent and cared for until permanent homes can be found for them which they can occupy until the war is over.
Catholic Sisters are shown distributing food which the American Red Cross aids in supplying
July 1918
Photographer: ARC Commission to France
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Committee of French Ladies which co-operates with the American Red Cross
in the work done for refugees at Pau.
Capt. Clark of the AMERICAN RED CROSS building at Pau, which before the war was a Casino
July 1918
Photographer: Mr. John A. Chamberlain
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Nurses off duty in the Solarium at Pau
29 August 1918
Photographer: ARC
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)