"Come a-runnin’ with your bundles!" — Boy Scout John B. Doyle of Pasadena, California collects clothing donations during Near East Relief Bundle Day
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Boy Scout John B. Doyle of Pasadena, California, collects bundles during one of NER's annual Bundle Day drives. Boy Scouts played a central operational role in these clothing campaigns: answering phones, accepting bundles, sorting clothing, and managing logistics at collection stations across the country.
All bundles were shipped to depots in New York or New Orleans, then onto vessels bound for the Near East, where orphanage seamstresses repaired and remade garments for relief use. Heavily damaged clothing was unraveled and the threads rewoven into carpets that could be sold to support the orphanages. The campaigns turned ordinary American household castoffs into one of the largest sustained material aid pipelines of the interwar period.
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