Photographs of the Harvard Unit assembled by Geraldine K. Martin

Photographs of the Harvard Unit assembled by Geraldine K. Martin

Martin, Geraldine K.

Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939

Photographs

World War, 1914-1918

Ambulances

American Ambulance Hospital

In the summer of 1915, Geraldine Kemmis Martin (b. 1887) traveled to Paris as an operating nurse with the Harvard Unit of the American Ambulance Hospital and assembled an album of photographs of her colleagues and experiences in World War I. The Harvard Unit, under the direction of Dr. Harvey Cushing, included house surgeons of Massachusetts General Hospital and the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, including Dr. Elliott Carr Cutler, and also Harvard Medical School faculty members Drs. Richard P. Strong and Robert B. Osgood.

After the war, Geraldine K. Martin married Cushing's associate, neurosurgeon Gilbert Horrax (1887-1957).

Photographs of the Harvard Unit in World War I, including ambulances, a portrait of the unit, the unit arriving in France, a portrait of Geraldine K. Martin, a portrait of Harvey Cushing, and a portrait of the officers of the ward

Martin, Geraldine K.

1915

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6 photographs

Purchased for the Boston Medical Library, 1999