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Class room in the Sahara. School children in the Sahara Desert do not look out the windows and long to play "hockey." They sit out in the broiling sun, smoke cigarettes and chant a sing-song drone from the Koran to a master who looks like a vaudeville magician. When he is tired of hearing them they pick up their wooden slates, carved with the verses they have committed to memory, and spend the remainder of the day dreaming in idleness. Education along modern lines is one of the many needs of the tragically ignorant children of this land and one of the things which the Junior Red Cross of America is planning to introduce there
Summary
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Paris Office.
Data: Jr. Red Cross.
Group title: Children, Algeria.
Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
Temp note: Batch 24
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Date
01/01/1920
Location
algeria
Source
Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "American National Red Cross photograph collection," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/717_anrc.html
