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WOMEN IN THE WAR

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Berlin

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Telegraph messenger, Berlin

Photograph shows a woman telegraph messenger on a bicycle in Berlin, Germany

during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

between ca. 1914 and ca. 1915

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Berlin

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Street railway Switch Tender, Berlin

Photograph shows woman switch tender in Berlin, Germany during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

between 1914 and ca. 1915

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Berlin

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Training women for street Railroad service – Berlin

Photograph shows German women training to become street car drivers in Berlin

during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

between ca. 1914 and ca. 1915

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Berlin

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Training women for street Railroad service – Berlin

Photograph shows German women training to become street car drivers in Berlin

during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

between ca. 1914 and ca. 1915

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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German women do men's work

Photograph shows German women in the uniform of a gas utility,

posing with a pipe threader and gas meter.

During World War I women adopted traditional male jobs.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015 and similar image on Getty Images website)

between ca. 1915 and 1918

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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German women doing men's work in orchard

Photograph shows German women working in an orchard, probably during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

between ca. 1914 and ca. 1915

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Namur

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Woman field workers near Namen

between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Making dolls, Germany

Photograph shows German toymakers whose work was impacted

by the British blockage of German products in 1916.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

between ca. 1915 and 1916

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Berlin

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Berlin

Knitting for soldiers

Photograph shows women in Berlin, Germany, knitting for soldiers during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

between 1914 and ca. 1915

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Berlin

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Berlin

Knitting for soldiers in Doctor's anteroom

Photograph shows women knitting things for soldiers in Berlin, Germany during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

between 1914 and ca. 1915

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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German women making uniforms

between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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German Nurses learning Russian

Photograph shows German nurses in a class room studying the Russian language

during World War I.

between ca. 1915 and 1918

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Berlin

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The English Countess Daisy Pless, known as "Sister Daisy" and her group of volunteer nurses

from the Temploehoff Reserve Hospital near Berlin.

"Sister Daisy" has given up her beautiful home "Schloss Firstenstein near Breslau and is now occupying a narrow hospital bedroom in common

with many other girls from the best families of Berlin society.

Three of the girls of this group are from French families in the French quarters of Berlin.

Left to right:

Sister Margaret Le Comte (French)

Sister Lizzie Carstens,

Sister Johanna Schonherr,

Sister Erma Hoffman,

Sister Daisy (Countess Pless),

Sister Edith de la Barre (French),

Sister Lotte de la Barre (French)

and Sister Helen Werner

between 1914 and 1919

Photographer  : ARC, Underwood & Underwood (cop.)

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Rouen

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Barracks built by A.R.C. for canteen, restration and emergency hospital for refugees at Rouen.

The buildings were begun early in April during the first German attack

and were finished in time to shelter the refugees who at one time came pouring into Rouen

at the rate of 3 or 4 thousand a day.

The service is in the hands of French volunteer workers, ladies living in Rouen

between 1914 and 1920

Photographer: M. Cuny or Curry

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Barracks built by A.R.C. for canteen, restration and emergency hospital for refugees at Rouen.

The buildings were begun early in April during the first German attack

and were finished in time to shelter the refugees who at one time came pouring into Rouen

at the rate of 3 or 4 thousand a day.

The service is in the hands of French volunteer workers, ladies living in Rouen

between 1914 and 1920

Photographer: M. Cuny or Curry

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

Rouen

Rouen.jpg
rouen women woman war WW1 1914 1918 14 18 guerre femme

Rouen

Rouen.jpg

Barracks built by A.R.C. for canteen, restration and emergency hospital for refugees at Rouen.

The buildings were begun early in April during the first German attack

and were finished in time to shelter the refugees who at one time came pouring into Rouen

at the rate of 3 or 4 thousand a day.

The service is in the hands of French volunteer workers, ladies living in Rouen

between 1914 and 1920

Photographer: M. Cuny or Curry

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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