Girls learned plain, fancy, and machine sewing as well as pattern-making. This prepared them to earn a living and to make clothing for their future families.
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Miss Caroline Sillman
Miss Caroline Silliman teaching at the Polygon Orphanage
Food distribution
Refugee children line up for food distribution
Woman and child in front of ruins of a house
Woman and child in front of ruins of a house
Two girls working at a loom
Two girls working at a loom
Men on the shoreline at Kavalla, Greece
A massive crowd of men on the shoreline at Kavalla, Greece. The men are engaged in a Christian ritual in celebration of Epiphany.
