Red Cross workers on parade, ca. 1917

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, New York
ca. 1917
emulsion on glass
5 x 7 x 0 in.

5x7 glass plate negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons ca. 1917. Photographed in front of a New York Public Library which has a huge eagle sitting on a ball of the world in front of it in New York City, New York at the time the United States was in World War I. View from street level of a line of Red Cross workers all carrying flags parading past a public library built in 1902. Spectators in front of library contain many military men in uniform and also one man at street level in a Union uniform from the Civil War. Banner in back of workers says, "AMERICAN RED CROSS". No original negative number. Handwritten neg. sleeve info.: "Parade (Red Cross) / Box 322". Videodisc address: 3-39643.

ANN.1984.187.6765

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection