Visit of respected figure to American Ambulance Hospital of Paris

Visit of respected figure to American Ambulance Hospital of Paris

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Greenough, Robert B. (Robert Battey), 1871-1937

World War, 1914-1918

A decoration of a convalescent officer at a ceremony in the court at Neuilly.

From a set of two boxes of lantern slides by Dr. Robert Battey Greenough, covering his service in 1915 with the First Harvard Unit and the American Ambulance in France during World War I.

Lantern slide taken in France during World War I, showing soldiers saluting and nurses, staff, and crowds lined up in the courtyard and peering out of windows and balconies to view a man in a wicker chair.

Greenough, Robert B. (Robert Battey), 1871-1937

1915-1916, circa

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See: "With the American Ambulance in France" by Dr. James R. Judd, page 22. Published by Honolulu Star-Bulletin Press, 1919.

See also: "From A Surgeon's Journal" by Harvey Cushing. Published by Little, Brown, and Company, 1936.

Warren Anatomical Museum (21245.019)

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1 black-and-white lantern slide

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WAM 21245.019

Donated to the Warren Anatomical Museum by the estate of Dr. Robert Battey Greenough, 1937.