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American Red Cross - Miscellaneous - Red Cross takes wounded soldiers on sight-seeing tours in New York. Red Cross at its daily work of acting as host to wounded soldiers. They are taken all over and shown the sights of the great metropolis. In front of Grand Central, Debarkation Hospital #5, 47th. St. and Park Ave., N.Y. City, ready for the "big trip"

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

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 - 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 - 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 - Headquarters & Buildings - How Red Cross nurses are housed and fed in New York. A discussion as to the proper location of the Red Cross brassard

American Red Cross - Classes in Red Cross Work - The mansion homes of the rich are no longer the place for only gayety and balls. Many of them have been turned over to the Red Cross for workshops for the women who volunteer to make bandages and other surgical dressings for the soldiers and sailors. This photo was taken in the bowling alleys in the home of Charles M. Schwab, and shows a number of women at work. The Schwab home is at Riverside Drive, New York City

American Red Cross - Classes in Red Cross Work - Rockefeller home devoted to Red Cross Work. Busy workers at the home of Mr. Rockefeller at #4 West 54th Street, New York City, N.Y

American Red Cross - Soliciting Funds - Entertainments - Crowd sings patriotic songs on steps of New York Library. A crowd of 3,000 formed a community chorus on the steps of the Public Library, 42nd street & Fifth avenue, New York City, and sang patriotic songs in celebration of the Red Cross drive. The singing was led by Miss Agnes Romaine of the Chicago Opera Company, and Premier Gene Rousseau of the Brussels Opera Company. May 23, 1918

American Red Cross - Miscellaneous - Many homes of the New York rich have been converted into workrooms by the auxiliary chapters of the Red Cross. The society women of New York have taken advantage of the new places offered by the Government for war work and are doing their share by making surgical dressings, etc. Scene shows a Red Cross Chapter meeting in the home of John D. Rockefeller, Jr

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American Red Cross - Miscellaneous

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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

Un an de la vie d'un jeune homme: Histoire véritable en 17 Chapitres, Ecrits par lui-même et Lithographiés par Victor Adam (A Year in the Life of a Young Man: A True Story in 17 Chapters, Written by Himself and Lithographed by Victor Adam)

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

PREPAREDNESS PARADE. MANY WOMEN CARRYING HUGE FLAG

American Red Cross - Groups - Board of Governors of the New League of Red Cross Societies. The Red Cross Societies of the World recently organized in Paris and formed the League of Red Cross Societies, appointing Sir. David Henderson as Director General. Left to right, Board of Governors: Senator Frascara of the Italian Red Cross; Sir Arthur Stanley of the British Red Cross; Henry P. Davidson of American Red Cross (Chairman) Comte De Kergorlay of the French Red Cross and Prof. Ninagawa of the Japanese Red Cross

(From left-to-right), The Honorable Paul Bremer, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, The Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, and U.S. Army LT. GEN. Sanchez, share a laugh during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq, on Sept. 6, 2003. (DoD photo by TECH. SGT. Andy Dunaway) (Released)

Many R.R. were destroyed. [Railroad ties and rails after being torn up.]

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

Repetitionsövning, A 6. V.Kårdiv. Förbandsprov. 1:e ate Mohlin.

United Nations World Habitat Day [celebration, awards ceremony at the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., with HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan joining U.S. Representative to the United Nations, Susan Rice, United Nations Humnan Settlements Program Executive Director Anna Tibaijuka, White House Domestic Policy Council Director Melody Barnes, Rockefeller Foundation President Judith Rudin, and rock music star Jon Bon Jovi among the many participating dignitaries]

Lance Cpl. Hunter Rooks, a Marine with Combat Logistics

US Air Force AIRMAN Basic Celena Baker (Left) and Kristie Bareika share a chuckle after seeing themselves in camouflage makeup used in preparing the trainees for combat training at a new training encampment fittingly named "Scorpion's Nest," one of the ways instructors are putting the "tough" back in "boot camp" at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas

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