American Women's Hospitals Service photographs: France, circa 1920, 1948

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Title: American Women's Hospitals Service photographs: France, circa 1920, 1948
Keywords: Women in medicine; Women physicians; Clinics; Dispensaries; Hospital buildings; Public health--Europe; Public health; Women in war; War work; World War, 1914-1918--Medical care--France; War relief; Levallois-Perret (France); La Residence Sociale, 3, Rue des Champs, Levallois-Perret, France; Heard, Ethel Lyon; Bassot, Marie Jeanne; American Medical Women's Association; Medical Women's National Association (U.S.)
Abstract: The American Women's Hospitals (AWH) developed from the War Service Committee of the Medical Women's National Association (later, American Medical Women's Association (AMWA)) in 1917 to provide, register and finance American women physicians for war work; offer medical and emergency relief to refugees; and, later, to provide international public health service. The AWH photographs were frequently used in fundraising and publicity campaigns. This group of photographs depicts buildings and streets where the AWH established their first hospital in northeastern France. Some photographs are post cards depicting Levallois-Perret, France.
Item Number: a144p_b02f06
In Collections: In Her Own Right: Women asserting their civil rights, 1820-1920

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