WWI Red Cross Volunteers

1917

Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States

Photograph of World War I Red Cross volunteers in and around automobiles in front of L.L. Kidder Hardware and Hessel Implement (Ely Building) on N Main Ave, 1917. The cars are adorned with Red Cross banners and pennants; some volunteers are wearing armbands and/or uniforms. First row, left to right: Archie Meyers (banker from First State Bank), three unidentified women in car, Maude Mitchell, Gertrude Eastman. Seated in 2nd car: Millie Ferris, Gladys Bliss, Gladys Neal. Sitting on running board of 2nd car - Ed Aylsworth, Hester Thorpe, Frances Bliss. Florence Towle and Winifred St. Clair on third car. Others are unidentified.

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Description: Photograph of World War I Red Cross volunteers in and around automobiles in front of L.L. Kidder Hardware and Hessel Implement (Ely Building) on N Main Ave, 1917. The cars are adorned with Red Cross banners and pennants; some volunteers are wearing armbands and/or uniforms. First row, left to right: Archie Meyers (banker from First State Bank), three unidentified women in car, Maude Mitchell, Gertrude Eastman. Seated in 2nd car: Millie Ferris, Gladys Bliss, Gladys Neal. Sitting on running board of 2nd car - Ed Aylsworth, Hester Thorpe, Frances Bliss. Florence Towle and Winifred St. Clair on third car. Others are unidentified.
Provenance: Found in collections. At least two of the women in the picture, Gertrude Eastman and Winifred St. Clair, had brothers who were serving overseas at the time (Henry and Edgar Eastman, and Leslie St. Clair Sr.). Gertrude Eastman's mother was the head of the Red Cross sewing room in Gresham.
Date: 1917
Subject: World War I; American Red Cross; Automobiles
Location: Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Identifier: ghs1427
Contributor: Gresham Historical Society
Extent: Print, Photographic
Type: StillImage

Item sets: Gresham Heritage

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