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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
ROMANIA
Page 1
Romania
Types of children receiving American Red Cross aid.
Galatz, Roumania
22 September 1919
Photographer : ARC. Paris Office
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Children's welcome to Red Cross.
The children of a Roumanian town form a guard of honor
for American Red Cross officials visiting the Village.
For months the Red Cross fed and clothed these children and they took this occasion
to demonstrate their appreciation
24 November 1919
Photographer : ARC. Paris Office
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
With American Red Cross food in their tummies and American Red Cross clothing on their backs,
the children of Roumania are quite happy.
They are war orphans
14 August 1919
Photographer : ARC. Balkan Comm
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
American Red Cross Day Nursery at Galatz, Roumania.
Before the day's studies begin, the children are marshalled in a long line,
and led across the pavement to the American Red Cross kitchens,
where they get a good substantial breakfast.
One of the native assistants in the nursery,
a smiling Roumanian refugee girl, is shown barefoot, as are most of the children
22 September 1919
Photographer : ARC. Paris Office
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Find children ragged, undernourished.
Perhaps the greatest calamity to be found among the destitute populations of central
and Eastern Europe is the starvation among the children.
Investigators who have been sent out by the American Red Cross report that the coming generation are in an alarming physical condition,
a large percentage of the children being deformed from lack of sufficient nutrition.
A determined effort has been commenced by these relief workers
to better the condition of these children.
They are being fed with food sent from America.
Clothes are also supplied to the children who for several years have been clad in little else
than rags such as the child in the picture is wearing
25 September 1919
Photographer : ARC. Paris Office
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Much of the effort made by relief workers to take the population of Roumania
out of the shadow of epidemics and starvation has necessarily been devoted
to the children of the country.
Everywhere they go in Roumania representatives of the American Red Cross
have been impressed with the sad plight of the children.
Schools were closed for months and in many districts because the children were too weak
from lack of food to attend classes.
A Red Cross photographer snapped a picture of this little girl,
who had been left by her mother to sleep on the hard sidewalk while she endeavored to find food.
Special hospitals have been established at many points to take care of the children
October 1919
Photographer : ARC. Roumanian Relief
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Food for children. A picture of the American Red Cross Canteen at Romnica Sarat,
where hundreds of young people are fed each day.
Each one carries his own receptacle into which a thick nourishing soup is poured
by American workers
27 October 1919
Photographer : ARC. Paris Office
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
This is a typical gown for attendants as marriage ceremonies in Transylvania.
The children in the photo are war orphans being cared for by the American Red Cross.
They are persona grate at all ceremonies
24 November 1919
Photographer : ARC. Paris Office
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Crowds of hungry women and children in front of American Red Cross canteen, Jassy.
Miss Rosana Pierce and Captain Mills,
who were in charge at this canteen are standing in front of gate.
This canteen fed about 2000 persons daily
15 September 1919
Photographer : ARC. Roumanian Commission
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Two Roumanian orphans and the goats
they kept from falling into the hands of the invading German armies.
The mountain cave in the background shows where the children,
their mother, and the goat lived during the occupation.
The mother died in this mountain crevice and the children were found by neighbors
and taken to the A.R.C. Orphanage at Bucharest.
The goats went with them and are the pets of the institution
11 December 1919
Photographer : ARC. Paris Office
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
When fortune smiles on Roumanian children.
This is the that is developed.
They are among a very few of the Balkan youngsters that escaped the real hardships of War
in the near East.
They show the type of children that Roumania is capable of developing under favorable conditions.
They were snapped in the yard of an American Red Cross feeding station
while waiting for their mother who had donated her services to aid in serving
their less fortunate little fellow countrymen
29 December 1919
Photographer : ARC. Paris Office
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
An American Red Cross soup kitchen in Bucharest,
preparing a luncheon of American breakfast food from Minneapolis.
Six stoves of this primitive pattern are used in this canteen station, which feeds 500 children daily.
Eleven different kinds of American breakfast foods have been used by the Red Cross in Roumania and they have all been popular with the children, although the older folks prefer their native dishes
August 1919
Photographer : ARC. Balkan Commission
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
A typical American Red Cross soup kitchen in Roumania.
It is with such primitive equipment as is shown here that the Red Cross has had
to prepare food for the distribution to needy peasants
23 October 1919
Photographer : ARC. Paris Office
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
"C'on over skin-nay, look who's here".
Every time an American Red Cross car stops in Roumania it is surrounded by a crowd of children.
To them the American flag acts like a lamp of sugar on hungry flies.
It is through the Red Cross that the generosity and sympathy of America for these suffering people has been transmitted to the future citizens of all Europe
24 November 1919
Photographer : ARC. Paris Office
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Typical Transylvanian peasant children.
The flowers they hold were gathered to present to the A.R.C. workers as they passed in their car
to distribute medical relief to the people in the remote district.
Generally the Roumanian types of womanhood are the most beautiful
to be found anywhere in Europe.
Their skins are clear.
Their features regular and eyes jet black
24 November 1919
Photographer : ARC. Paris Office
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
These are Roumanian peasant girls in their native costume.
It is the only dress they have had in five years, but its neat appearance shows
the personal cleanliness of these Transylvanian country people.
The American Red Cross workers, distributing relief supplies in this district, have found these people to be of extreme cleanly character in spite of their poverty
24 November 1919
Photographer : ARC. Paris Office
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Woman and child standing by fence of farmyard, Romania
ca 1918
(Library of Congress)