The Boys' Home Outside of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, 1948

"On the way to the Boys' Home" The road to the Boys' Home outside of Frankfurt, Germany, run by missionaries from a cappella Churches of Christ, dominates the foreground of the photograph while the bombed out ruins of the Rebstock Airport dominate the background of the photograph. The United States Army had requisitioned the airport and allowed the missionaries to establish their Boys' Home there because they thought the missionaries could help the large number of homeless boys that lived in Frankfurt at the time. This photograph comes from a photo album put together by Katherine Patton, a missionary from a cappella Churches of Christ, during her work in Germany from 1948-1958