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Pupils in the Washington Irving High School, N.Y.C. last year dressed 2500 dolls and toys for the poor children of the city. The Red Cross Teaching Center, which was giving courses in home hygiene and care of the sick, in three of the girl's high schools, showed them how. Between three and four hundred girls are graduated from these Red Cross home hygiene courses every year
Hillside School #58; Miss Blanche Calyer, Teacher. Opened September 11th--8 months term. Enrollment 20, Average attendance 18 (last year: enrollment 43, average attendance 36). 15 others are out for cotton picking and may be out a month more. Teacher says families are mostly tenants, but she thinks they need help of children during cotton picking season. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma Lewis W. Hine
Review girl cadets at Dunbar High School. Military drill has become an important part of the curriculum at Dunbar High School, Washington, D.C., for girls as well as for boys. In a recent competitive drill, Company C, under command of Captain Crystal Malone, was adjudged the outstanding military unit among the girls of the school. Photo shows the judges saluting the winning company following a review. Left to right: Lieutenant James Chambers of Fort Huachuca, Arizona; First Officer Harriet West; Second Officer Mildred Osby and Second Officer Ina Mae McFadden of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC); Miss Julia Brooks, assistant principal of Dunbar High School; Captain Cornelius King, Cadet Corps instructor and Lieutenant H.O. Atwood, chief of Military Science and Tactics Department of the Colored High Schools of Washington
High school Victory Corps. In order to provide training in teamwork, mental and physical coordination and to give opportunites for development of leadership qualities, one of the objectives of the High School Victory Corps is voluntary military drill. These students at Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles, California, belong to the girl's dress team
School #45, Ash Grove; Miss Hazel McKay, Teacher. One-room school in fair condition. Opened September 4th--8 months term. Enrollment 22, average attendance 15; last year: enrollment 27, average attendance 15. The balance are picking cotton and also 5 more that have not enrolled at all. Pickers may be out 2 weeks more. Teacher expects 30 enrolled after picking is over. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.
Washington public schools go to war. The public schools of Washington, D.C., like those in most other sections of the country, have revised their curricula to fit the pupils for fuller participation in the war effort. They have gone all-out for the Program of Civilian Defense which includes conserving of materials and wearing apparel. Members of the art and crafts class at Armstrong High School have made jewelry and many other articles from scrap and discarded materials. Girls are taught to wear proper color combinations and the right kind of accessories for each dress. Photo shows (left to right): Misses Helen G. Weaver, Yvonne Colvin and Audrey V. Minor in an exhibit of the art and crafts class
High school Victory Corps. In order to provide training in teamwork, mental and physical coordination and to give opportunites for development of leadership qualities, one of the objectives of the High School Victory Corps is voluntary military drill. These students at Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles, California, belong to the girl's dress team
American Red Cross - Uniforms - The Red Cross Town and Country nurse, in her plain blue gingham dress with soft collar and cufts, her panama hat and her emergency kit is a beloved figure in rural communities scattered from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to Mexico. Her insignia is the Red Cross pin. To her district she is nurse, mother, sister, teacher, and fairy-godmother. In a week she attends the sick, instructs mothers, gives school children lessons in hygiene, organizes health committees and clubs, brings clean- up and public welfare campaigns to the country, apparantly carrying in her bag a new lease of life for all to whom it opens
School #45, Ash Grove; Miss Hazel McKay, Teacher. One-room school in fair condition. Opened September 4th--8 months term. Enrollment 22, average attendance 15; last year: enrollment 27, average attendance 15. The balance are picking cotton and also 5 more that have not enrolled at all. Pickers may be out 2 weeks more. Teacher expects 30 enrolled after picking is over. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma Lewis W. Hine
Rock Springs, Wyoming, high school. Arrangements have been made, whereby it has been possible to offer a most practical course in home hygiene to the girls of the senior high school. When the matter was presented to the girls of the high school it was evident that his course was wanted, as eighty-three girls enrolled. As sixty was the maximum number that it was possible to handle at the present time the balance were placed on the waitig list and will take care of the work in turn. Regular high school credit is allowed to the girls completing the course. The Junior Red Cross is bearing the expense of the equipment necessary to carry on the wok
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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: Mountain Div.
Data: Junior Red Cross. Group title: Junior Red Cross. Home Hygiene. U.S.
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
01/01/1920
Location
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