Image / American Red Cross volunteers of 1917-1918 preparing surgical dressings [picture]

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Title: American Red Cross volunteers of 1917-1918 preparing surgical dressings [picture]
Creator: Rogers, Edward A. "Doc," 1873-1960
Date Created and/or Issued: 1918
Publication Information: Oakland Public Library
Oakland Tribune, Inc
Contributing Institution: Oakland Public Library, Oakland History Center
Collection: Selections from the Collections of the Oakland History Center
Rights Information: Public domain
Material is in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Title from index card. The photograph depicts volunteer caregivers from the American Red Cross tending to sufferers of influenza during the great flu pandemic of 1917-1918. From the Joseph R. Knowland collection at the Oakland History Room, Oakland Public Library. Number in collection : 273.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : negative. b&w ; 10 x 13 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt0k4022fb
copl_056
Knowland Neg. 273
Subject: Influenza epidemic, 1918-1919 - California - Oakland - Pictorial works
Nurses - Portraits
Influenza - Treatment - Pictorial works
American Red Cross - History - Pictorial works
Place: Oakland (Calif.) - History - Pictorial works.

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