The American Red Cross

Warsaw, May 1919: Feeding refugees (4,000 a day) in the Powązki camp. Photo: Library of Congress, LC-DIG-anrc-03569

Warsaw, May 9, 1919: Members of the American Red Cross mission. Photo: Library of Congress, LC-DIG-anrc-03609

Kovel, May 23, 1919: Children holding the flags of the Allied countries welcoming the American Red Cross mission at the train station. Photo: Library of Congress, LC-DIG-anrc-03572

October 1919: Fighting the spotted typhus epidemic in Poland. Photo: Library of Congress, LC-DIG-anrc-04309

Zaprudy (Polesie Region), October 1919: Captain Arthur G. Plankers, medical director of the American Red Cross mobile field unit, at work. Photo: Library of Congress, LC-DIG-anrc-04276

Będzin, October 1919: American Red Cross aid station for Polish miners. Photo: Library of Congress, LC-DIG-anrc-04342

October 1919: A train with war refugees returning to Poland from Russia after passing through delousing and disinfection stations. Photo: Library of Congress, LC-DIG-anrc-04312

November 1919: American Red Cross soup kitchen in eastern Poland. Photo: Library of Congress, LC-DIG-anrc-04666

September 1920: American Red Cross truck with food and medicine for eastern Poland. Photo: Library of Congress, LC-DIG-anrc-12577

Białystok, September 1920: Orphans from an orphanage run by the American Red Cross. Photo: Library of Congress, LC-DIG-anrc-12515

Bereza Kartuska, August 1921: Orphans under the care of the American Red Cross mission. Photo: Library of Congress, LC-DIG-anrc-14207

Sambor, August 1921: Milk distribution point equipped by the American Red Cross. Photo: Library of Congress, LC-DIG-anrc-14242

Early 1920s: A girl being fed at a refugee kitchen run by the American Red Cross. Photo: National Archives and Records Administration