Firemen Practising drills
Image Courtesy of the Library Of Congress at Washington D.C.Firemen Practising drills circa 1920.
Clarence Darrow 1915
Clarence Seward Darrow American lawyer and Civil libertarian, most famous for his defence of thrill killers Leopold and Loeb and the "Scopes Monkey Trial".Interior of the United States Patent Office
Image courtesy of the Harris and Ewing Collection. Interior of the United States Patent Office taken sometime between 1905 and 1940.
Ford's Theater April 1865.
Ford's Theater Washington, D.C. with guards posted at entrance April 1865.More Information.
The Lincoln Memorial 1914.
Image courtesy of the Harris & Ewing Collection.More information
Lincoln Memorial Construction Flipbook
The Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station 1917.
Image courtesy of the Harris and Ewing collection at the Library Of Congress at Washington D.C. The American Red Cross motor corps was first organised by Florence Jaffray Harriman. The motor corps has about 45 members (Mostly made up of women of independent means). It was based at a garage at Sixteenth and M streets in Washington D.C.
The War and Navy department primarily used the service to transport war workers who had fallen sick, although in most cases it dealt with those suffering from the influenza pandemic of 1918.
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