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[American Red Cross canteen activities, 1917-18]: Colored Branch of the Hamlet, N.C. Red Cross – Vintage Wall Art

[American Red Cross canteen activities, 1917-18]: Colored Branch of the Hamlet, N.C. Red Cross, [between 1917 and 1918] — historic photograph
[American Red Cross canteen activities, 1917-18]: Colored Branch of the Hamlet, N.C. Red Cross, [between 1917 and 1918]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with [American Red Cross canteen activities, 1917-18]: Colored Branch of the Hamlet, N.C. Red Cross, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[American Red Cross canteen activities, 1917-18]: Colored Branch of the Hamlet, N.C. Red Cross

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Hamlet, North Carolina, grew up around the railroad, and this photograph shows the separate canteen run by the local Red Cross for Black residents and servicemen during the First World War. Canteens like this one, set up along rail lines, handed out food, coffee, and other small comforts to soldiers whose trains stopped for a few minutes at a time. Wartime Red Cross work in the South was largely organized along racial lines, so a branch labeled "colored" reflects the segregated system of the period as much as the war effort itself. The caption information is unverified, so the exact date and the people pictured are worth confirming before relying on them.

Created / published[between 1917 and 1918]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsAmerican Red Cross Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: NC--H-; Ohio--C-?; WWI--Rest & recreation; WWI--U.S.; African Americans--Misc.; Red Cross--In U.S.; Shelf. Unprocessed in PR 06 CN 89 (Drawer 1, unsorted).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,107 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-131847

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