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• Miami University Libraries - Digital Collections 55 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 4 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 2 photos & illustrations
• Mennonite Church USA Archives 2 photos & illustrations
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 2 photos & illustrations
• Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales 2 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 2 photos & illustrations
• Cornell University Library 2 photos & illustrations
• Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America 1 photo / illustration
• New York Public Library 1 photo / illustration
• Florida Memory 1 photo / illustration
• Library Company of Philadelphia 1 photo / illustration

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January 27, 1916

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 10 older comments, and then…
• Swordscookie said:

  Nuns? Nurses? Women in uniform? Hygiene or what. It is strange to see the dress given the nature of the work they were doing!

• blackpoolbeach said:

  Very high ceiling without a picture rail where the flies used to breed. I cannot work out if they are gas mantles that have been converted to electric lights. I remember gas lights with 2 chains hanging to regulate the gas supply. www.1900s.org.uk/1900s-lighting.htm

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Swordscookie I'm thinking volunteers, some of whom may well have been nurses. But given the nature of the enterprise and that it was probably run in a very disciplined manner, that they were expected to wear the apron and veil affair; and for hygiene too as you say...

• philip ward said:

  Probably standard Red Cross uniforms for the period.

• John FitzPatrick Leisen said:

  The system they used to get in all our lives,.The schools & hospitals,.Now we can't get them out,.Thank you, Brenda,.did you happen to see this,. Smiling Eamon de Valera "Follier Upper"

Unidentified tailor in Tallahassee, Florida

from Florida Memory

• Humdrum Ladybug said:

  You have some very nice old pictures .... thanks for sharing them!! Bill. 5/28/14

St Margaret's clothes factory, Aberbargoed

from Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales

• jamica1 said:

  A rather heavily gendered division of labour?