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1 : " 1950 board meeting, names on the back "
2 : Man at a podium for the Military Blood Procurement Car (Western Pacific Red Cross), 1950s
3 : " Galveston, Texas, April 1947. How the American Red Cross moved into the shambles left by the Texas City explosions of April 16 is pictured in these scenes of restricted areas where the Red Cross was recognized as the official relief agency. These girls rallied to the call for volunteers to keep the files cross-indexed and up to date hourly for the Galveston Red Cross chapter where 10,000 welfare inquiries were received and processed during the first week of the catastrophe. Mrs. E.M. Hecht (standing, right background) trained 150 women to do this. American Red Cross (ARC) photo by Palmer "
4 : " Galveston, Texas, April 1947. How the American Red Cross moved into the shambles left by the Texas City explosions of April 16 is pictured in these scenes of restricted areas where the Red Cross was recognized as the official relief agency. Steady concentration on the grim job of answering inquiries about victims and possible victims kept shifts of Red Cross volunteers on a 24 hour-a-day basis. American Red Cross (ARC) photo by Palmer "
5 : " Miss Maggie Fell of England, Arkansas as she selected a dress from the huge rack of clothing supplied by the Red Cross. Looking on is her mother, Mrs. Elvia Fell, and Red Cross Volunteer, Mrs. E.A. Carllee. Picture was taken in the Fire House which is not serving as emergency Red Cross Headquarters. The Fell residence was completely demolished, 1950s, American Red Cross photo. "
6 : " Galveston, Texas, April 1947. How the American Red Cross moved into the shambles left by the Texas City explosions of April 16 is pictured in these scenes of restricted areas where the Red Cross was recognized as the official relief agency. "Smiling through" is little Felicidad Inocencio of Texas City who can find joy in the dimple new dress provided by Red Cross in the dispensing room at Camp Wallace. American Red Cross (ARC) photo by Palmer "
7 : " Uintah School, Whiterocks, Utah. April 1947. During the 1946-1947 school year, as part of the state's centennial observance of the arrival of the Mormons, Utah elementary school children. Many of them descendants of the early pioneers, presented a series of historical broadcasts, Sponsored by the State Department of Education and the Junior Red Cross, thirty weekly broadcasts of the "Know Your Utah" series were prepared and presented by the schools. Robert Jenks, Ute Junior high school student at Uintah Indian school reads the part of the father in the scene depicting the arrival of the White Man to Utah in 1947 in the "Know Your Utah" series. " Photo by Oliver Goldsmith (American Red Cross).
8 : " John Beal, star of program 29, "In Your Mind" radio series, broadcast the week of April 25, 1948. Sent from the Office of Public Information, Pacific Area, American National Red Cross, San Francisco 9, California "
9 : American Red Cross Nurse with a child sitting on the desk in front of her
10 : " During an American Red Cross class in Mother and baby care, Dad learns the neat trick of giving baby her spoonful of cod liver oil. The class is conducted by a Red Cross nurse who teaches the expectant father the details of caring for mother and infant, December 7, 1948 "
11 : " Refueling. Being held while he eats gives baby (and papa) emotional satisfaction, it says here. Red Cross nurse Lillian Adams gives an angle on it. Richard Ward and daughter, March 1947, American Red Cross photo by Johnson :
12 : Woman and man leaving a helicopter, walking on train tracks, late 1940s, copy print
13 : Red Cross and military personnel with blood drive supplies. Airplane in the background, late 1940s
14 : " Mrs. S.J. Landry, motor corps captain of Beaumont, Texas shows Frank Johnson, Galveston, Texas Red Cross chapter chairman the damage done to the Beaumont station wagon when the S.S. high Flyer blew up at the Texas City docks. A huge chunk of steel crashed down on the hood. Red Cross volunteer Charles Butler, of Beaumont was badly hurt later losing a leg and eye. American Red Cross photo, April 1947. "
15 : " Fire at Utah Ice and Storage Plant, Salt Lake City, Utah. June 28, 1949 "
16 : " Monterey, Arkansas. After helicopter landing on railroad tracks above sprawling flood waters of the St Francis River during the Midwest floods, Lt Fletcher Brown, Jr., pilot of the emergency flight, and a Red Cross nurse make their way to the bedside of a Monterey woman stricken with pneumonia. Photo from Acme, June 11, 1950 "
17 : " Dress rehearsal for disaster, Gerald Wesselius (left), assistant manager of the Pacific Area, American Red Cross, and Richard F. Gordon, director of Disaster Services, check potential danger points on map on the disaster operations control room at the Red Cross Pacific Area headquarters in San Francisco during a simulated disaster operation conducted to test the efficiency of the control room. Forty-one Red Cross chapters in the Pacific Area have been alerted to prepare for possible disastrous floods in the next few weeks. American Red Cross photo, March 20, 1952. "
18 : American Red Cross nurse (right) standing in the aftermath of a disaster with a mother and child, probably in Searcy, Arkansas, March 1952
19 : " Searcy, Arkansas, Tornado victim Joe I. Witt of Judsonia Arkansas reads Red Cross placard posted in all twister-struck areas to inform families of aid available to them from the Red Cross and where to apply for it. He learns further details of program from Red Cross disaster worker Beulah Miles. Mrs. Witt is in a local hospital with serious injuries sustained when the twister wrecked their home. Mr. Witt also was injured, American Red Cross photo,” probably March 1952
20 : " Mud can't stop Nancy Knowles Wright, an American Red Cross hospital worker attached to an advanced evacuation hospital somewhere in Italy with the Fifth Army, 1943." copy print
21 : " [Private First Class] Harvey White, Minneapolis, administers Red Cross blood plasma to a wounded American soldier while natives of the town look on. Sicily, 1943." copy print
22 : " Commodore W.E. Longfellow and members of the Red Cross Y.W.C.A Life Saving Corps while on a 1920 tour of free swimming instruction facilities." copy print
23 : " A typical scene at the Red Cross canteen in Bordeaux, France, 1917-1918." copy print
24 : " Over 12,000 American Red Cross volunteers work in the nation's military hospitals, helping injured and sick servicemen and women. " copy print
25 : " Working with government agencies, the American Red Cross is a major element in disaster programs, last year providing more than $30 million in disaster relief funds." copy print
26 : " Wherever the need arises, American Red Cross disaster workers can be found. Here Red Cross volunteers search for persons trapped in their cars during a blizzard." copy print
27 : " American Red Cross volunteer nurses teach blood pressure screening as part of a home nursing course." copy print
28 : " A Red Cross worker strops on her rounds to check on the needs of a family sitting out a flood in Cincinnati, Ohio." copy print
29 : " The Red Cross Public Health Nurse is recognized by her uniform and Red Cross symbol as a firm friend in times of illness or home emergency, Wheeling, West Virginia, 1934." copy print
30 : " During WWI American Red Cross volunteers made warm garments and medical supplies for the "boys" up front. Here, in Butte, Montana, the workers make face masks. copy print"
31 : " Clara Barton, Civil War photo by Matthew Brady," copy print
32-35 : Images from the 1952 Columbia Pictures production Paula starring Loretta Young, images by Columbia Pictures
