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Flight Nurse and Wounded

Date: 03 1945
Description: At Iwo Jima Airfield #1 Gwen Jensen, a flight nurse, talks with wounded Marines who are about to be evacuated by airplane. Mount Surabachi, from which the ...
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Doctor with Refugee Child in Algeria

Date: 08 1957
Description: A Red Crescent doctor is holding an Algerian refugee child who survived a French air attack that killed eighteen people. Behind them is a shepherd's daught...
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Visiting Nurse Service Staff Nurse on Bicycle

Date: 04 11 1944
Description: Myra Johnson, 323 West Mifflin Street, the newest member of the Visiting Nurse Service staff, with her bicycle, which she uses to make her daily rounds. Ca...
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Wisconsin General Nurses Entering Military Service

Date: 03 29 1945
Description: Fifteen nurses from Wisconsin General Hospital, who are entering military service, standing in front of a plaque reading: "1920-1924 A memorial to those wh...
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United States General Hospital

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Description: View of Ward 15 of the United States General Hospital No. 7, as designated by the surgeon-general in 1918. Intended for returning soldiers' physical recons...
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Christmas Greetings To You In Service

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Description: Holiday card with a uniformed nurse standing under mistletoe, while a soldier and a sailor are walking towards her, presumably to kiss her. Inside a red bo...
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Christmas Greetings to You in Red Cross Service

Date: 1918
Description: Holiday card with a nurse in uniform peering through a wreath she is holding. The card has a thin red border. The text below reads: "Christmas Greetings to...
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Flight Nurses in Training Pool

Date: 1943
Description: Six female flight nurses in a swimming pool during aquatic training at the at Alameda Naval Air Strip. Four of the women are in a raft, and two women are i...
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Anoxic Faint Chamber

Date: 02 1945
Description: Gwen Jensen, a female flight nurse, poses for a photograph during flight training at Alameda Naval Air Strip. In an anoxic faint chamber, used to simulate ...
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Flight Nurses Look for Luggage

Date: 1943
Description: Flight nurses, newly arrived in Agana Airport, Guam, searching for their luggage as two other women are looking on. The two flight nurses have just complet...
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Nurse Teaching Saipan Internees

Date: 03 1945
Description: United States Army nurse, Mary Harrington, teaches female internees in Saipan, gathered outdoors in the grass with Saipan women. Harrington is smiling and ...
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Flight Nurse with Patient in Anoxic Chamber

Date: 1945
Description: A flight nurse in an anoxic faint chamber, used to simulate high altitude flying with little oxygen, placing an oxygen mask over a male patient's face. He ...
Postcard

A Girl and Boy Dressed as Nurse and Soldier

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of a girl dressed as a nurse and a boy dressed as a soldier standing in front of a painted backdrop. He holds a rifle and she i...
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Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Home Nursing Class

Date: 1942
Description: Image of outdoor group portrait from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with members of a Red Cross home nursing class held January-May 1942 at the se...
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Army Nurse Killed in Action

Date: 1944
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Ellen G. Ainsworth, published in the Milwaukee Sentinel. She was an Army nurse killed in action on February 16th, 194...
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Nurses from University Hospitals Appointed Lieutenants in Army Nurse Corps Reserve Unit

Date: 04 11 1960
Description: Three nurses from University Hospitals are appointed lieutenants in the Army Nurse Corps Reserve. Major Duane F. Alexander, unit adviser from the 44th Gene...
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Red Cross 10 Year Service Award

Date: 04 17 1961
Description: Truax Field's Red Cross recognition tea featured a ten-year service pin given to Margaret Hoffman. Shown left to right: Col. Olin E. Gilbert, Truax Field ...
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Flight Nurse in Training

Date: 1945
Description: Flight nurse student checking on two patients sleeping in bunks.
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Liberty Loan Parade

Date: 07 1918
Description: Elevated view of Red Cross nurses marching along a street, holding the Red Cross flag. Bystanders flank the street. Overhead, a banner reads "YOU Stand Bac...
Poster

Join American Red Cross Poster

Date: 1917
Description: World War I poster depicting a young nurse extending out her right hand. In the background, wolves are approaching the front porch of a house, and howling ...

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