Photograph of a "boarding mother teaching her little charges how to make the sign of the cross. Catholic Charities, January 1947." The woman and four little girls sit outdoors on a wooden staircase leading to the entrance of a building. Potted plants surround the group. All but one touch their foreheads with their right hands.
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