Four year old Madeleine La Cour belongs, for a year at least, to Company "E" of the 101st U.S. Engineer. She thinks they are the best god-fathers in the world for they sent her money for a present, not for a pair of shoes or for a dress or for anything useful, but for a real present, so her mother bought for her with their soldiers' money, a pair of earrings. She had lost those that her soldier father gave her before he was killed in the war and she was very sad. Now Madeleine smiles and says in French baby-talk that she loves her god-fathers. The AMERICAN RED CROSS administers the funds for the maintanence of all the children adopted by the American troops

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Four year old Madeleine La Cour belongs, for a year at least, to Company "E" of the 101st U.S. Engineer. She thinks they are the best god-fathers in the world for they sent her money for a present, not for a pair of shoes or for a dress or for anything useful, but for a real present, so her mother bought for her with their soldiers' money, a pair of earrings. She had lost those that her soldier father gave her before he was killed in the war and she was very sad. Now Madeleine smiles and says in French baby-talk that she loves her god-fathers. The AMERICAN RED CROSS administers the funds for the maintanence of all the children adopted by the American troops

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Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine.
Group title: Adopted children.
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 33

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01/01/1918
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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

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