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Edith Storey, Ambulance Driver
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"For months Miss Storey has been driving a war ambulance in the streets of New York--a work no less valuable than handling one behind the Flanders lines. And when the influenza epidemic hit the metropolis, she deserted the steering-wheel with scores of other drivers to take the 'night nurse shift' in the crowded New York hospitals. . . . Miss Storey has been steadily driving an ambulance for the National League for Women's Service. This doesn't mean chauffeuring a motor-car thru the metropolitan streets in a natty uniform. Far from it. Miss Storey, like the others, reports at nine o'clock in the morning and devotes the day to meeting incoming transports and liners at the docks and transporting the sick and wounded to hospitals thru the maddening congestion of Manhattan street traffic, to transporting men from place to place and to special emergency work." Harrison Haskins, "A Star Who Really Did Her Bit" in June 1919 "Motion Picture Classic."
May 1919
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Edith Storey publicity still for "As the Sun Went Down."
1919
Edith Storey, in character as the female gunfighter Colonel Billy, aims her Remington revolver from the window of a log building in a publicity still for "As the Sun Went Down."
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1919
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Antonio Moreno and Edith Storey Scene Still
1917
Jack Stanton (played by Antonio Moreno) is being married to Faimeh (Edith Storey) in a Turkish ceremony in a scene still from "Aladdin from Broadway." Moreno and Storey are costumed in Turkish styl...
H. B. Warner in a scene still
1916
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Construction Truck
1969
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Men Gathering For Work
February 1, 1919
Men gathering for work at Ferme De Piemont. Captioned: "Taken at Ferme De Piemont (in the Champagne) to work the Bull Durham people for the 'makins.'"
