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Paris. The American Red Cross Canteen and Enlisted Men's Hotel #13, situated at Champ de Mars, Paris. The great number of men stationed in, and passing through Paris, made it necessary for the Red Cross to provide sleeping accomodations for them. Salvage tents were utilized, the work started on February 18th, 1919, and was finished in just nine days. The tents have 1,400 beds, a fully equipped canteen and recreation hut. Beds are one franc each per night, or about 19 cents in real money. The picture shows the hotel in the course of construction
Summary
Use of salvaged tents by A.R.C. to make hotel for transient soldiers on Champs-de-Mars, Paris.
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: [George E.] Marshall.
Additional date: 3 March 1919.
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
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Date
01/01/1919
Location
france
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
