Milking time at the American Red Cross hospital farm at Salisbury, England. Corporal Niell of Gastonia, N.C. tries his hand under the direction of the English milkmaid. The Corporal is wearing a Red Cross comfort bag in place of his cap, most of the men in the picture are wounded American soldiers from the Western front, who are convalescent patients allowed to spend their spare time in learning farming on the Red Cross farm. The medical staff at the Hospital is very enthusiastic about the farm work as a means of bringing convalescent soldiers back to health. Most of the Doctors and Nurses are from Kentucky, and many of them knew considerable about the farming themselves
Summary
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Commission to England.
Group title: Hospital. Farm U.S. England.
Data: Better Farming Breeder's Gazette. 1/1919. Kimball's Dairy Farmer Successful Farming Jersey Bulletin Dairy World. 11/1918. Guernsey Breeders Jr. Farm, Stock and Home Farmer and Breeder, 11/1918. Photo Service. Hoard's Dairyman Farm and Fireside.
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
Temp note: Batch 21
Tags
Date
01/01/1918
Location
england
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "American National Red Cross photograph collection," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/717_anrc.html