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WW1 - 1914-1918
" Looks of War photographers "
" Regards de photographes de Guerre"
9000 photos
438 pages
RE-CONDITIONING
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DEPARTMENT
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PARIS
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81 rue SAINT DIDIER
Paris
Paris.
Interior of 81 Rue St. Didier, Paris,
the home of the Re-conditioning Department of the American Red Cross.
The women are showing working
on bedding which had become water logged in transit from the States.
At the left they are repacking Red Cross insignias which have been put into a useable condition.
This end of the salvage section has saved the Red Cross thousands of dollars
15 March 1919
Photographer: Gibory Centre de Récupération, Rue St. Didier, Paris. Cannery
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Paris.
Interior of the American Red Cross Re-conditioning Department at 81 Rue St. Didier, Paris.
It is here that thousands of dollars worth of merchandise has been reclaimed, and made fit for use.
The women are shown here working on underclothing and blankets
which have been waterlogged or damaged by bed packing and handling.
French women who are experts in this work are employed,
working under guidance of an American Red Cross worker
5 March 1919
Photographer: Gibory Centre de Récupération, Rue St. Didier, Paris. Cannery
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
The American Red Cross has organized a "re-conditioning" department at Rue St. Didier, Paris,
where women are employed remaking various merchandise which has been damaged in transit. Sometimes cases of supplies become waterlogged and unfit for use.
At this workshop these things are gone over and remade so that they can be used.
This has become one of the most efficient branches of the Red Cross work in France.
The workers are shown here remaking mattresses
January 1919
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Paris.
Interior of the American Red Cross Re-conditioning Department at 81 Rue St. Didier, Paris.
This is a most interesting phase of Red Cross work.
Nothing is ever wasted.
When merchandise has become damaged by water, or other causes, and are unfit for use,
it is sent to these rooms
and the articles are immediately gone over and cleaned, washed, resewn and repacked.
Thousands of dollars worth of goods have been saved from wreckage in this manner.
The personnel is entirely made up of French women,
who have become expert in this form of salvage work.
They are shown here working on towels and bed linen
15 March 1919
Photographer: Gibory Centre de Récupération, Rue St. Didier, Paris. Cannery
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
