World War 1, 1914-1918
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The World War 1, 1914-1918, collection includes histories of some of the individual U.S. Army base hospitals, the 15-volume official history of the U.S. Army Medical Department, published from 1921 through 1929, and U.S. Army hospital magazines published during the Great War. NLM digitized and released this collection in 2014 to commemorate the 100-year anniversary.
Highlights include:
- • dozens of hospital histories, including the Official history of U.S.A. Base Hospital No. 31 of Youngstown, Ohio, and Hospital Unit "G" of Syracuse University;
- • a silent film, [Plastic reconstruction of face, Red Cross worker, Paris], which depicts the work of carving and fitting facial molds;
- • experiences of volunteers like ambulance workers, as documented in History of the American Field Service in France: "Friends of France" 1914-1917 : told by its members;
- • an account of how the Catholic Sisters of Philadelphia aided their community in Work of the Sisters during the epidemic of influenza, October, 1918.