American Red Cross

Photograph

Historical Society of Carroll County, Maryland

Name/Title

American Red Cross

Entry/Object ID

1987.068.001

Description

Print, photographic. American Red Cross Juniors, taken in the Westminster Hotel, 1918. B/W. Shows a large group of girls and young women in a room with patterned wall coverings and an American flag on the back wall. There are thirty two girls and young women in the group. Many of them are knitting. There is an American Red Cross symbol in the center of the group. There is a door to the left of the group. There is a globular shaped chandelier hanging above the group. On back in pencil "C.1918, Westminster". First row, left to right: Ellizabeth Hedrick; Althea H. Reck; unidentified; Nona Myerly; unidentified; Rose Price; unidentified. Second row, left to right: Mabel Weant; Ruth Caples Mathias; Margaret R. Myerly; Mary Stultz Bankard; unidentified; Marjorie Stultz Stambaugh. Third row, left to right; Helen Stoner Yingling; unidentified; Grace Wimert; Catherine Bell Rinehart. Fourth row, left to right: Miriam Royer Brickett; Evelyn Mather; Gertrude Shaffer; Virginia Hunter DeVries. Fifth row, left to right: Catherine Doyle; Elizabeth Diffendal. Sixth row: Elizabeth Gillean; Ruth Gillean Elderdice; Mrs. William Thomas (instructor); Rita Gorza Kauffman. 8" x 10"

Acquisition

Accession

1987.068

Source or Donor

Diffendal, Elizabeth

Acquisition Method

Gift