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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
TOURS
page 3
Tours
The coffee well never runs dry for the constant stream of American soldiers
at the AMERICAN RED CROSS Canteen, St. Pierre des Corps (Tours)
September 1918
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
At the AMERICAN RED CROSS Canteen at Tours
the demand for coffee and doughnuts seems inexhaustible,
but so is the supply, and the workers are always ready to serve a few more.
Every day hundreds of American soldiers on their way to the front are refreshed
with something that tastes like home
September 1918
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Hundreds of soldiers en route to the front are being served daily with coffee and doughnuts
at the Red Cross Canteen, St. Pierre Des Corps (Tours)
At the AMERICAN RED CROSS Canteen at Tours the demand for coffee and doughnuts
seem inexhaustible, but so is the supply, and the workers are always ready to serve a few more.
Every day hundreds of American soldiers on their way to the front are refreshed
with something that tastes like home
September 1918
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Mrs. Benedict Grunthal, Directrice, in front of ARC Station Contreau at St. Pierre des Corps
30 October 1918
Photographer : Meadows
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
American soldiers entering ARC canteen at St. Pierre des Corps.
Boys lined up at the AMERICAN RED CROSS Canteen at Tours
30 October 1918
Photographer : Meadows
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Group of American soldiers in front of ARC Station Canteen at St. Pierre des Corps
30 October 1918
Photographer : Meadows
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Umm!à.
Coffee and doughnuts for a hungry soldier at the Red Cross Canteen Saint Pierre des Corps (Tours)
They are always hungry and they can always get coffee and doughnuts
at the AMERICAN RED CROSS Canteen, St. Pierre des Corps (Tours)
September 1918
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Just Like Mother Used to Make.
Red Cross Canteen Saint Pierre des Corps. (Tours)
Something like home.
Doughnuts and coffee at AMERICAN RED CROSS Canteen, St. Pierre des Corps (tours)
September 1918
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
The rest room in A.R.C. canteen at Tours.
Personnel form left to right:
Anne O'Rourke, N.Y.C.; Anne Fenwick, San Francisco; Dorothy Deeble, Washington;
Faith Haskell, Wakefield, Neb.; Jeannette Bailey, Denver; Pauline Mills, N.Y.C.;
Lillian Kelly, EauClaire, Wis.; Katheryn Bland, Reading, Pa.;
Helen Ruff, St. Paul; Helen Parker, Washington
27 May 1919
Photographer : Joseph A. Collin
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Tours:
Park and Palace of the Prefecture,
where the American Red Cross has huts for cantine and rest houses
for American and French soldiers.
Separate groups of buildings are maintained for the men of the different armies,
one on the right, the other on the left, half hidden in the groves of great trees
between 1918 and 1920
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Tours.
Huts put up by the American Red Cross,
where it maintains a cantine and rest house for soldiers of the French Army.
On the other side of the park, not far away, is the group of huts maintained for the Americans
between 1918 and 1920
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Tours.
In the park of the old palace of the Prefecture, across the street from the station,
the American Red Cross has built huts for cantine and rest house for American soldiers.
The town is always crowded and formerly it was exceedingly difficult
for men arriving at night to find lodgings,
but now there is room for all, and good hot food night and day
between 1918 and 1920
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
American Red Cross Chaplain, Rev. F.M. Eliot,
taking the home addresses of interned German prisoners,
so that their families may be notified that they are well.
They showed much appreciation of favors.
Picture taken at Base Hospital No. 7 at Tours. Oct. 1918
30 October 1918
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Rendering of 3000 dead horses per month at La Pauderie near Tours, France 12-6-18
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Dennis fire lorry [British] in use with AEF at Tours, France July 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111