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WINIFRED HOLT'S

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LIGHT HOUSE

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BLIND SOLDIERS

History

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Winifred Holt and Blind Officer

Bain News Service, publisher

between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)

Paris

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Bordeaux

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Winifred Holt, Fred Prince, Countess Montagnac

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Photograph shows people on the French liner Rochambeau

which arrived in New York on November 23, 1916 including:

American aviator Frederick H. Prince, Jr. (1885-1962), a member of the Lafayette Escadrille

during World War I;

French Countess de Montagnac who was visiting the United States to raise money

for French war widows;

and sculptor Winifred Holt (1870-1945), founder of the New York Association for the Blind

who also raised money for blinded French soldiers. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

 

1916 Nov. 23

Bain News Service, publisher

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

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During World War I Winifred Holt was engaged by the French government

to establish Lighthouses in Bordeaux and Paris for blinded soldiers.

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Blind soldiers, being taught to read and write.

The middle soldier has lost one arm and one leg.

Miss Winifred Holt's Light House

May 1918

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Blind soldiers at work in Miss Winifred Holt's Light House

May 1918

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

Red Cross Winifred Holt Blind soldier officer WW1 1914 1918

Blind soldiers at work in Miss Winifred Holt's Light House

May 1918

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Blind soldiers making chairs.

Miss Winifred Holt's Light House

Photographer: ARC Commission to France

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Paris

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Winifred Holt and Blind in Hotel du Phare, Paris

between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915

Bain News Service, publisher

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

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Winifred Holt teaching checkers to blind officers

Bain News Service, publisher

between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)

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Paris

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A class of blind soldiers held by the

Comite' Franco-Américain pour les Aveugles de la Guerre,

Hotel de Crillon, Paris:

From left to right, seated: French architect, Mechanic, and Inventor, Farmer,

an Arab, a Commercial traveler.

Standing: French Farmer, Polish Farmer, looking over his shoulder a blind professor,

refugee from Arras, then a Lieutenant; next the sister of the blind man

(on the right of the "Gardienne du Phare.

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" He is a member of the bar, and has volunteered his services to help the men blinded in Battle;

on left of the Gardienne is an Adjutant Chef.

 With the exception of the lawyer and refugee from Arras,

all the men in the picture have been blinded in battle.

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