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Soft drink stand profits go to the Red Cross, from the Nashville Times, 1940

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Title	Soft drink stand profits go to the Red Cross, from the Nashville Times, 1940
Corporate name	American Red Cross
Topical entry	War relief--Tennessee--Nashville Children and war World War, 1939-1945--Children
Geographic entry	Nashville (Tenn.)--History--Sources Nashville (Tenn.)--Social life and customs Nashville and Davidson County (Tenn.)--History--Sources Byron Avenue (Nashville, Tenn.)
Description	A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about Nashville children contributing profits from a soft drink stand to provide food to children in Europe, via a Red Cross project. The caption reads: “There’ll be little drinking of the profits of this soft drink stand on Byron Avenue this week. Those profits will go to children in Europe who won’t have soft drinks for a long time to come, but who could use any kind of fodd today. The proprietors are shown in the pictured. Left to right, they are Anne Sexton, George Carpenter, Martha Ann Byrn, James Ballentine, Bill Sexton, Lytle Brown, and Dorothy Ballentine. The Red Cross will get all the profit.” Forms part of the Nashville Times newspaper collection. 1 digital photo.
Publisher	Metropolitan Nashville/Davidson County Archives, Nashville Public Library
Date	1940
Type	Still Image; Text
Format	image/jpeg
Identifier	WarRelief--NT-1940
Language	English
Relation	Nashville Times Newspaper Collection
Coverage	1940-1949
Rights	U.S. and international copyright laws protect this digital content, which is provided for educational purposes only and may not be downloaded, reproduced, or distributed for any other purpose without written permission. Please contact the Metro Archives, Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 37219. Telephone (615) 862-5880.
Location	Closed Stacks, Metro Archives-Nashville Times, hardbound volume