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Convalescent American soldier at the American Military Hospital No. 1 at Neuilly. The work of the women at home in making hospital supplies is mighty well appreciated by the American boys, like this one in his American Red Cross dressing gown

This American soldier finds life pleasant in the American Red Cross military hospital no. 6. This is a complete portable tent hospital put up by the American Red Cross at Auteuil, Paris on the site of what before the war was a celebrated race course

One of the new ARC warehouses at a big American camp somewhere in England. Here are stored a great variety of hospital requisites and comforts for the soldiers. These small "camp warehouses" are a sort of middle-man's station between the soldier and the great RC storehouses in London and the British ports

Member of the AMERICAN RED CROSS wearing the uniform which canteen workers use while on duty. Increasing members of American women are working in this volunteer service which adds so greatly to the well being of the American soldier. Picture taken outside the AMERICAN RED CROSS Bureau of Photography

The American Red Cross found the Roumanians destitute of all medical supplies after the armistice. Clinics and hospitals were unable to care for the many patients that crowded into them. Many carloads of surplus Red Cross stock was shipped into the country, enabling such dispensaries as the home pictured here to carry on medical work on a normal scale

American Red Cross - Uniforms - This is the nurses' uniform that wounded soldiers know best - the gray cotton crepe working uniform of the Red Cross Army and Navy Nurse, which makes its wearer "the best dressed woman in the world". Gray is an innovation used abroad made necessary by the laundry problem in France. The Red Cross brassard is worn only by nurses serving directly under the Red Cross

The American Red Cross surgical dressings workshop and warehouse George Street, Hanover Square, W. Red Cross work is solely confined to the nursing of the wounded. There are other sections with which the public are little acquainted and the preparation and distribution of surgical dressings, bandages and hospital requisite for a most important branch of the general work. B-34 Receiving goods down the chute for dispatch to various hospitals

American Red Cross - Classes in Red Cross Work - Linton, Ind., War activities. Local chapter of American Red Cross called to public's notice numerous times on account of excellent showing made in surgical dressing work

American Red Cross - Uniforms - This gray summer outdoor uniform of the American Red Cross is seen in Palestine and Greece, Italy and England as well as in the United States and France. Nurses going out to serve in these countries did not know what service they might be called upon to perform, or whether they would serve singly or in groups. They are working in hospitals, dispensaries and teaching centers, helping in the care of children and refugees, and meeting every emergency of war

The work which the RC does for the American army is of great variety. Here is a "Kit Store" in the "Admission Block" of a great American hospital, where soldiers admitted to hospital can leave their equipment and extra clothing in charge of a Red Cross man who will see that it is kept safe and properly cared for until the soldier is discharged from hospital

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Title and notes from Red Cross caption card.

Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC England.

Group title: Hospitals, England.

Date based on date of negatives in same range.

Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.

General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc

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01/01/1918
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england
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No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "American National Red Cross photograph collection," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/717_anrc.html

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