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Photo, Print, Drawing Women of America Proudly Carry Their Holy Cross, and Join Their Italian Sisters in Strengthening the Common Pious Action on the Battlefield. Le donne dell'America portano fiere la loro croce santa, e si uniscono alle sorelle d'Italia per intensificare sul campo di battaglia la comune opera pietosa

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Title

  • Women of America Proudly Carry Their Holy Cross, and Join Their Italian Sisters in Strengthening the Common Pious Action on the Battlefield.

Other Title

  • Le donne dell'America portano fiere la loro croce santa, e si uniscono alle sorelle d'Italia per intensificare sul campo di battaglia la comune opera pietosa

Summary

  • This print shows a parade of American Red Cross nurses marching down an avenue flanked by jubilant crowds. Flags of the Red Cross, the United States, the Kingdom of Italy, the United Kingdom, and the French Republic hang from buildings and lampposts and are waved by the spectators. During World War I, the American Red Cross organized a commission that created a storage facility in Rome provided with large amounts of hospital supplies and fully equipped ambulances, along with blankets and sanitary supplies. The commission also gave funds to purchase clothes for refugees. It delivered 1 million lire to the Roman committee of civil organization in order to help the families of soldiers killed in the war as well as refugees. In the aftermath of the war, a permanent commission of the American Red Cross arrived in Italy in November 1918. Over the course of the next few months it extended its service throughout the country, from the Alps to Sicily.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1917.

Headings

  • -  Italy
  • -  United States of America
  • -  1917
  • -  American Red Cross
  • -  Flags
  • -  Medicine
  • -  Nurses
  • -  Parades and processions
  • -  Volunteers
  • -  War posters
  • -  War relief
  • -  World War, 1914-1918

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 18 x 25 centimeters.
  • -  Reference extracted from World Digital Library: "Work Elsewhere Overseas: General," in The Work of the American Red Cross During the War (Washington, D.C.: American Red Cross, 1919). http://www.vlib.us/medical/ARC/ARC5.htm. External
  • -  Original resource at: Alessandrina Library.
  • -  Content in Italian.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • World War I

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021670950

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Chicago citation style:

Women of America Proudly Carry Their Holy Cross, and Join Their Italian Sisters in Strengthening the Common Pious Action on the Battlefield. United States of America Italy, 1917. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670950/.

APA citation style:

(1917) Women of America Proudly Carry Their Holy Cross, and Join Their Italian Sisters in Strengthening the Common Pious Action on the Battlefield. United States of America Italy, 1917. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670950/.

MLA citation style:

Women of America Proudly Carry Their Holy Cross, and Join Their Italian Sisters in Strengthening the Common Pious Action on the Battlefield. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670950/>.