Photographic Scrapbook of the American Ambulance Service, Assembled by Nurse Geraldine K. Martin.
Dublin Core
Title
Photographic Scrapbook of the American Ambulance Service, Assembled by Nurse Geraldine K. Martin.
Subject
American Ambulance Hospital.
World War, 1914-1918.
Medicine, Military.
Military nursing.
Surgery, Military.
Description
In the spring of 1915, Geraldine K. Martin, a 1912 graduate of the Johns Hopkins Training School for Nurses, traveled to France as a member of the Harvard Unit of the American Ambulance Hospital; she later assembled an album of over 250 photographs of her colleagues, the hospital, sights and battlefields, documenting her experiences in World War I. The Harvard Unit, 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.
Creator
Martin, Geraldine K. (Geraldine Kemmis) 1887-1937.
Source
Photographic Scrapbook of the American Ambulance Service, Assembled by Nurse Geraldine K. Martin, 1915.
Date Created
1915
Format
text
Extent
1 volume.
Language
English.
Type
still image
Identifier
Acc. 2000-016.
Provenance
Purchased for the Boston Medical Library through the Franc D. Ingraham Fund, 1999.
Files
Collection
Citation
Martin, Geraldine K. (Geraldine Kemmis) 1887-1937., “Photographic Scrapbook of the American Ambulance Service, Assembled by Nurse Geraldine K. Martin.,” OnView, accessed March 29, 2024, https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/17911.