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CITIES and VILLAGES

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ENJOYMENTS and PAINS

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TAOMINA - ITALY

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Taomina

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Taormina.

Site of ARC seaside home for children

July 1918

Photographer : ARC Commission to Italy.

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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A group of A.R.C. nurses at the ARC Convalescent Hospital in Taormina

December 1918

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Taormina.

"Little Emma" of the Taormina Convalescent Home, whose taste ran to wine and olives before becoming an inmate of the home.

The nurse who holds Emma is a refugee from the district north of Venice

20 November 1918

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Taormina, a boy of the Taormina Seaside Camp, for children

ca. 1918

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Ready for the morning dip.

Children of the Taormina Seaside camp

ca. 1918

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Taormina.

Ready for the morning dip.

Children of the Taormina seaside camp

1918.

Caption data :

Mrs. Kate Horton, 10/30/18; William Harper Dean, 10/30/18;

Edith Day Robinson, 10/30/18; Mrs. Bessie Brewer, 11/4/18

Photographer : ARC Italy.

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Taormina.

Four of Taormina's tiniest at the summer camp contemplating a swim

1918.

Caption data :

Mrs. Kate Horton, 10/30/18; William Harper Dean, 10/30/18;

Edith Day Robinson, 10/30/18; Mrs. Bessie Brewer, 11/4/18

Photographer : ARC Italy.

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Taormina.

Waiting for a coming breaker at the summer camp

1918

On caption card: Data: Miss Bessie Brewer, 10/30/18

Photographer : ARC Commission to Italy.

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Taormina.

Children on the terrace of the Taormina Convalescent Home, for children

20 November 1918

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Children at A.R.C. summer camp, Taormina, Sicily

ca. 1918 or 1919

Photographer : ARC Commission to Italy.

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Taormina.

Children of the Taormina seaside camp at play on the sunny terrace above the one-time

popular restaurant in which they are housed

On caption card: Data: ms 1390;

Miss Edith Day Robinson, 10/30/18;

Mrs. Kate Horton, 10/30/18;

Mrs. Bessie Brewer, 11/4/18;

Jr. Red Cross

1918

Photographer : ARC Commission to Italy.

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Children at A.R.C. summer camp, Taormina, Sicily

ca. 1918 or 1919

Photographer : ARC Commission to Italy.

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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