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WW1 - 1914-1918
" Looks of War photographers "
" Regards de photographes de Guerre"
9000 photos
438 pages
HOSPITALS
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AMBULANCES
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MEDICAL STAFF
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American Embassy sends doctors through German lines to treat wounded Belgians
1914
Source: The Technical World magazine, Vol 21, 1914.
New Red Cross Ambulances near Washington Monument 1915
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Source of photograph: Harris & Ewing
Collection; Library of Congress.
Shown here is both a Harvard (left) and Yale (right) donated ambulance to the American Red Cross for use in Europe to ease the suffering there during the Great War.
Harvard students donated 5 Ford Ambulances and Yale students donated 12 similar ambulances.
Red Cross receives 12 ambulances from Yale students 1915
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Source of photograph: Harris & Ewing
Collection; Library of Congress.
Students both at Yale and Harvard Universities donated 17 ambulances,
capable of carrying 3 patients each, to the American Red Cross in Washington DC.
The twelve Ford Ambulances donated by the Yale students are shown here in March 1915.
They will be shipped across the Atlantic to assist our European friends in the Great War.
Red Cross ambulance with 3 patients 1915
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Source of photograph: Harris & Ewing
Collection; Library of Congress.
Dept of Labor clinic at Hog Island, PA 1918
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Source of photograph: Harris & Ewing
Collection; Library of Congress.
Dept. of Labor dentist provides free dental care for shipyard worker at Hog Island, PA 1918 loc20606u
Source of photograph: Harris & Ewing
Collection; Library of Congress.
Cart used for dressings. American Military Hospital No. 1
[between 1917 and 1920]
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
between 1917 and 1920
Photographer : International Film Service
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Balcom frames used for extending fractures. American Military Hospital No. 1
between 1917 and 1920
Data: Mr. Wharton
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
French Nuns, members of the Red Cross, on duty near the firing
October 1917
Photographer : Paul Thompson
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Wounded Officer being placed in a four compartment ambulance.
November 1917
Photographer : Paul Thompson
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Fontaine le Dun
Hospital at Fontaine le Dun.
The grounds with convalescents; typical French country house;
December 1917
Photographer : Miss Carita Spencer
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Pithiviers
Pithiviers: The general hospital. Surgical Dressings Comm.
December 1917
Photographer : Miss Carita Spencer
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
On the way to Poste de Secours, showing back of ambulance
November 1917
Photographer : Davis.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
American nurses in France are interested in aeroplane evolutions but find the sun trying
between 1917 and 1920
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Paris
Supper for the convalescents at the Grand Palais in Paris, which has been turned into a hospital.
November 1917
Prints from Red Cross Magazine, copyright released for Red Cross slide department.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Group of nurses on board the "Erin"
showing the Duchess of Westminster and Sir Thomas Lipton in the center
October 1917
Photographer : Paul Thompson.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
In the French trenches are to be found fully equipped first aid stations in the fashion of dug-outs
to which soldiers are first immediately transferred for medical attendance as here shown.
October 1917
Photographer : Paul Thompson.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
This picture shows what remains of a French Field Hospital after a German incendiary shell hit it and starting a fire which raised it to the ground.
No sooner had the projectile buried itself in the house
then the whole building burst forth into flames.
Only a few Red Cross ambulances were saved, the fire enveloping them
as they stood parked beside the building
December 1917
Underwood & Underwood, photographer
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Paris
The American ambulance at Neuilly, France, the first treat monument of American sympathy
for France, which has been turned over to General John J. Pershing.
The Neuilly hospital was the first relief given to the Poilus by Americans
and the first to float the American and French flags over the doors.
American Red Cross funds will hereafter support the hospital.
December 1917
Underwood & Underwood, photographer
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Paris
The sterilizing room, American Red Cross surgical dressings, rue de la Faisanderie, Paris.
September 1917
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
French Red Cross bringing a wounded infantryman from the front
between 1917 and 1920
Photographer : International Film Service.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
At an evacuation hospital
November 1917
Photographer : Davis
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
First Aid ambulance at Poste de Secours.
October 1917
Photographer : Wm. G. Foster.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Carrying a wounded man down to an ambulance
between 1917 and 1920
Photographer Dr. Birkhead
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)