Passport photograph of M. Blanche Wallace, 1918.

Passport photograph of M. Blanche Wallace, 1918.

Wallace, M. Blanche (Mary Blanche), 1892-1979.

Military nursing.

Harvard Surgical Unit.

World War, 1914-1918.

Autographed passport photograph of M. Blanche Wallace, April 1918. Mary Blanche Wallace (1892-1979) of Woburn served as a nurse with the third Harvard Surgical Unit, working at General Hospital No. 22 from June 11, 1916, to June 9, 1917. She then returned to France in April 1918 as a member of the American Red Cross Nursing Service, working in hospitals through the end of the war. Blanche Wallis documented her experiences in two scrapbooks filled with newsclippings, photographs, ephemera and memorabilia.

Photographer unknown.

Wallace, M. Blanche (Mary Blanche), 1892-1979. Scrapbooks, 1916-1924 (inclusive).

1918-04.

image

1 photographic print, mounted.

still image

H MS b63.1, v.1.

Gift of M. Blanche Wallace to the Archives of Harvard Medical School, 1971.