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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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Man and Child Pretending to be Soldiers
February 1, 1919
Portrait of a man and child posing in front of an ambulance. Caption reads: "Robineau Cook, as a French marine, and a 'petit goss' as an ambulance driver. St Menehould."
Transport Americain. American Field Service
1917
Poster featuring an illustration of a French ambulance driving at night. The driver is wearing a helmet, and the man standing on the side of the truck is looking ahead scanning the horizon. In the ...
Loading an Ambulance
circa 1910-1919
Medical personnel load a wounded Prussian into an ambulance. Captioned: "A wounded Prussian being loaded in my car for evacuation. He was shot just under his heart with an automatic, in a coup des ...
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.'"
Construction Truck
1969
A man is driving a construction truck in the shadow cast by what appears to be an elevated highway. A sign for the "Brooklyn Battery Tunnel" is on one of the support columns of the elevated highway...
Jubécourt
February 1, 1919
Two men standing in front of a large group of ambulances parked in the snow. Caption reads: "An early morning scene at Jubécourt. The drivers slept in their cars."
