American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs, 1917 - 1918
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Ward, Joseph Henry, 1872-1956
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Dr. Joseph Henry Ward was born in Wilson, North Carolina on August 26, 1872. He graduated from Indiana Medical College and received advanced training from the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Ward ran his own twenty bed hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana, providing medical care to African Americans of that city. When the United States entered World War I Dr. Ward enlisted. After his initial three month training as a private, he was commissioned as a medical officer in the Medical Corps. He would eventually rise ...
Storch, Despina Davidovitch, 1895-1918
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Despina Davidovitch Storch was alleged to be a spy for Germany and the Ottoman Empire during World War I. When she arrived in the U.S., Storch was "placed under suspicion by the Department of Justice". While on Ellis Island Storch died on March 30, 1918 of what was described as pneumonia at age 23....
National Jewish Welfare Board
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Origins of the National Jewish Welfare Board (1913-1919) Organized in 1917 to meet the needs of Jewish servicemen in the Armed Forces, the National Jewish Welfare Board (JWB) became a national federation of local agencies and social service institutions dedicated to meeting the social, cultural, intellectual, physical and spiritual needs of the American Jewish community. The roots of JWB can be traced to the founding of the Council of Young Men's Hebrew and Kindred Associations (YMHA-KA) ...
United States. Marine Corps Women's Reserve
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The United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve was the World War II women's branch of the United States Marine Corps Reserve. It was authorized by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on 30 July 1942. Its purpose was to release officers and men for combat, and to replace them with women in U.S. shore stations for the duration of the war plus six months. Ruth Cheney Streeter was appointed the first director. The Reserve did not accept African American or Japane...
Women's Overseas Hospitals
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During World War I the Women's Overseas Hospitals in France was organized by the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Gertrude Foster Brown became Director-General....
Women's Land Army of America
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The Woman's Land Army of America was a civilian organization created during the First and Second World Wars to work in agriculture replacing men called up to the military. Women who worked for the WLAA were sometimes known as farmerettes. The WLAA was modeled on the British Women's Land Army....
Girl Scouts of the United States of America
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The Girl Scouts were founded by Juliette Gordon Low on March 12, 1912 when Low organized the first Girl Guide troop meeting of 18 girls at her home in Savannah, Georgia. By the next year they became the Girl Scouts of the United States. By the 1920s troops were forming overseas as well. Low was inspired to start the Girl Scouts after she met Robert Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts, in 1911. Beginning with Lou Henry Hoover, the incumbent First Lady has served as the Honorary Pr...
