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American Red Cross - Classes in Red Cross Work - Red Cross workers. Chapter workrooms. New York society women are rolling bandages and doing other work of a similar nature for the Red Cross in a room donated for the purpose by Best and Company

American Red Cross - Groups - American Red Cross strives to enlist 25,000 nurses. The great Red Cross drive for 25,000 nurses is sweeping the country. Realizing the great importance attached to the work of the organization, many women are enlisting under the banner of Mercy. They Mayor's Committee of nurses held a great rally at the Public Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd St., N.Y. City. This shows the group of women in charge of the New York rallies

American Red Cross - Classes in Red Cross Work - England - English women whose husbands are fighting in France work for the American Red Cross at the Surgical Dressings Workrooms in London. One of the earliest forms of war activity undertaken by the Red Cross was the manufacture of surgical dressings and other hospital requirements. From modest beginnings this work has increased until it now employs more than 2000 workers in thirty branches throughout Great Britian

American Red Cross - Classes in Red Cross Work - One of the first business organizations in New York, and, it is believed, the first in the United States, to encourage knitting among its male employees during lunch hour, was the Universal Motion Picture Company, 1600 Broadway, New York. The female stenographers acted as instructors. Photo shows a noon hour knitting session in one of the offices

American Red Cross - Miscellaneous - Red Cross opens new model work rooms in New York. The American Red Cross on April 1, 1918 opened its model work rooms in the 5th floor of their New York Headquarters at 5th Ave. and 38th St., N.Y. Here volunteer workers were taught to operate the many new time saving devices. Mrs. William J. Howell and Mr. A.R. Baldwin operating one of the new sweater machines. Mr. Baldwin is a volunteer Red Cross worker

American Red Cross - Classes in Red Cross Work - England - Women's Red Cross Activities in London. The American Red Cross workrooms, where surgical dressings and hospital garments are manufactured. The monthly output of these workshops is now about 500,000 articles

American Red Cross - Classes in Red Cross Work (workrooms and classes) - Red Cross women stop bandage making to make garments for needy. This photograph shows the surgical dressing unit of the Red Cross which has been ordered to give up work on bandages and who are now making garments for the French and Belgian who are in need of clothing

American Red Cross - Classes in Red Cross Work - England - American Red Cross distributive Centre in London. One of the packing rooms at the headquarters of the Distributing Service of the American Red Cross in famous Hanover Square, London. The room is filled with silent groups of energetic workers, all dressed in clean white uniforms

American Red Cross - Classes in Red Cross Work - Steel Magnate's home used for war work. The home of Charles M. Schwab, steel magnate, on Riverside Drive, New York, was converted into workrooms for American Red Cross workers who gave their services to the country. Many society women comprised the auxiliary which met daily at the Schwab mansion to make surgical dressings. Photo shows the patriotic women making bandages in the bowling alleys

American Red Cross - Classes in Red Cross Work - New York women sew hospital garments for Red Cross. Over a thousand women volunteers are at work at the big factory for the manufacture of hospital garments for the Red Cross in New York. It is planned to get 11,000 women to pledge their support and devote three hours a week to the work. Photo shows a general view of one of the workrooms. International Film Service

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American Red Cross - Classes in Red Cross Work (workrooms and classes) - Red Cross women stop bandage making to make garments for needy. This photograph shows the surgical dressing unit of the Red Cross which has been ordered to give up work on bandages and who are now making garments for the French and Belgian who are in need of clothing

American Red Cross - Classes in Red Cross Work (workrooms and classes) - Members of the fire department of Cincinnati, Ohio, making sweaters, socks, and mufflers for soldiers in France. Photo shows women members of the American Red Cross teaching firemen the art of knitting for the soldiers

Harold signs the pledge not to drink another drop [as woman watches]

Transformer manufacture. Welding is an intrinsic part of the manufacture of transformers. This welder is employed by a large Eastern electrical company whose power transformers are needed by many factories engaged in war Production. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

American Red Cross - Groups - Ambulance drivers, Louis Goldman (left) and Roy L. Yelverton both of New York worked eighty hours without sleep carrying the American woudned from the battle front to the American base hospital at Neully

Airplanes - Types - Types of aeroplanes. Giant Plane. International Film Service

Scene in the cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage, near Waxahachie. These boys, from seven years old and upward, pick cotton, helping this man, outside of school hours., There are 20 children in the Orphanage, mostly girls, and it is supported by the Baptists of Texas. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.

War production drive. The war production drive committee in the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company plant in Cleveland approved this pledge card. The signing of each card impressed the worker with his individual responsibility for the success of the drive. Many other plants have used similar pledges and many plants forward these signed pledges to Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), as a gesture of their commitment to increase production

All of these are workers in the Stearns Silk Factory, Petersburg, Virginia Not all of the youngsters would get into the photo. I went through the factory during working hours and saw many others like these. A neighbor's testimony corroborated the foregoing. Noon hour. Location: Petersburg, Virginia.

Rags. Collection and processing. A portion of the sorting room in a large Eastern rag processing plant. In this room new rag remnants, consisting chiefly of cuttings received from clothing factories, are sorted. The rags are classified and separated according to the type of cloth; colored rags are graded according to the ease with which they can be bleached. The baskets in back of the women are filled with rags that have been sorted and classified. The women work in teams of two; it takes a team about two hours to sort the rags in one full bale. In another part of the plant, a room of the same size and general appearance as this is used for sorting used rags. Shapiro Company, Baltimore, Maryland

American Red Cross - Soliciting Funds - Entertainments - Rubber Conservation Campaign, Chicago, Ill. Elephant does hit bit in getting tires for the Red Cross Junk Tire Pole

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days per week. Dolls and buggies are the chief interests of the little girls

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