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Co-authors of the book Under Three Flags: With the Red Cross in Belgium, France, and Serbia (Macmillan 1916): books.google.com/books?id=EUQ5AQAAIAAJ

April 3, 1915 New York Times identifies those who arrived on the Chicago the day before from Le Havre, among them Miss. I.S. Livingston and Miss St. Clair Livingston. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A00EFD81238E633A...

Very beautiful picture!

pennylrichardsca and artolog, Thank you for the further information! These two women were quite accomplished. The date on the photo is April 3, 1915. An article in the April 4, 1915 Hartford Courant (only available through subscription database) uses this Bain photograph to illustrate a brief article, stating the two ladies are graduates of Johns Hopkins, and were returning from nursing wounded in Serbia. The medals they wear in the photo were awarded to them by King Peter of Serbia for their service. They return to the U.S. to raise money for Red Cross supplies to take back to Serbia two weeks later. (Naturally, this experience and others is what led them to write the 1916 book pennylrichardsca mentions.) We will add more details about Miss Hansen and Miss Livingston with our next update.

King Peter I of Serbia:

This looks like a drawing to me.

Yes, a drawing--and appears to be SS France (1912).

Is that Leo di Caprio at the bow exclaiming, "I'm king of the world!"? A very fine ship drawing.

This picture reminded me of the titanic. The date of this picture is also in the same time period. I agree, this picture definitely looks like an artist's perception of the ship.

The Titanic? How dare you sir besmirch the honor of France's maritime traditions by drawing parallels to that horrible English ship!-)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Paris_(1916) "The SS Paris was a French ocean liner built in Saint-Nazaire, France for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique. The French Line's Paris was built by Chantiers de l'Atlantique of St. Nazaire. Although Paris was laid down in 1913, her launching was delayed until 1916, and she was not completed until 1921, due to World War I. When Paris was finally completed, she was the largest liner under the French flag, at 34,569 tons."

The liner Paris arrived in New York on her maiden run from Le Havre on June 21, 1921, s. New-York tribune., June 23, 1921, Page 3, col. 5 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1921-06-23/ed-...

Thanks, swanq and B-59 . We will add some of these details to the catalog record.