1920s Red Cross African American Nurses Rolling Bandages

$2,000.00

Exceptional evidence and unusually aesthetic composition. African Americans were finally admitted into the Red Cross in 1919, a response to the nursing need created by the Spanish Flu epidemic. This image dates to just a few years later. Unlike the average group shot with its blurred faces across a room or field, this photographer obviously sits just across the table...

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Exceptional evidence and unusually aesthetic composition.

African Americans were finally admitted into the Red Cross in 1919, a response to the nursing need created by the Spanish Flu epidemic. This image dates to just a few years later.

Unlike the average group shot with its blurred faces across a room or field, this photographer obviously sits just across the table from the women hard at work rolling gauze.

The door frame and wallpaper suggests the relief effort actually occupies a spare bedroom in a home.

Board measures 11 x 13". Clear image w/ strong contrast and water stains at mount edges.