American Red Cross Insignia

[jmar]

I don't know whos responsible for pinning this thread but: THANKS!

 

Rene

 

Now how about that! Pinned!! Thank you Rene!!! I have no idea either, but it's kind of nice having a thread pinned. I have all of you who have replied and visited this thread to thank for that, your continued interest and posts made it happen.

 

Best wishes you!

 

Joe

[Dogsbody]

Hello everyone, another ARC item from my collection is this sleeveless v-neck sweater (I placed the knitting instructions on the sweater).

 

 

 

Rene

 

 

 

 

 

 

[mikie]

Congrats on the pinning here. It's not a topic I can contribute much to, but there is plenty here for me to feed my wide-ranging curiosity.

 

Rene, nice touch having the instruction sheet with the sweater. I'm starting to get the impression that you have another one of those "shoeboxes" for your collection. Perhaps not quite as big as another one we both know of, but who knows?

Mikie

[Dogsbody]

Congrats on the pinning here. It's not a topic I can contribute much to, but there is plenty here for me to feed my wide-ranging curiosity.

 

Rene, nice touch having the instruction sheet with the sweater. I'm starting to get the impression that you have another one of those "shoeboxes" for your collection. Perhaps not quite as big as another one we both know of, but who knows?

Mikie

Hi Mikie, although I'm lucky to have a nice collection of WW2 US items I think I can safely say that it is no match for the contents of said shoebox of you know who.

 

Rene

[mars&thunder]

If this was already answered and I missed it in an earlier thread, my apologies. Red Cross nurse records are available through ancestry.com. Search the card catalog for red cross and a single entry will show up. You can search by name or by badge number. These records are very incomplete so most searches don't result in a hit, but those that do contain an amazing amount of data.

[nursingpins]

On 1/9/2016 at 3:51 PM, MT247 said:

Figured this might be a good place to add this, hopefully you can tell me more about it. Thanks

 

 

Red pin from the Chautauqua Correspondence School of Nursing was founded in 1900 in Jamestown,
NY. It grew rapidly as a result of a successful magazine advertising campaign, which touted
the opportunity to make between $10.00 and $35.00 a week as a registered nurse upon
graduation, and the fact that the school shared its name with the widely known and respected
(yet entirely distinct) Chautauqua Institution. Over the course of its existence, the Chautauqua
School of Nursing enrolled over 20,000 students, and in 1915, claimed to be the largest source
of registered nurses in the country. Its closure in 1927 was largely due to opposition from those who favored organized nursing that had become institutionalized in the hospital training school. This pin had 3 different colors red, blue, and green but I do not know what the difference between the colors of the pins.

[RLGangwere]

For those interested in the American Red Cross's overseas service during World War II, and in particular the Red Cross's clubmobile department, I have created a master list of all the women who served in clubmobiles in the ETO.  It is searchable and access is free of charge.  See "robertgangwere.com".  Thus, if you find a photograph, a uniform, or other item that was supposedly owned by a Red Cross clubmobile girl, you can now easily check to see if that woman actually served in the clubmobile service in the ETO, where she was from, her maiden name and her married name (if known), birth and death years, and service information, etc.  The site also includes a list of known clubmobiles and the types of vehicles used.  

[nursingpins]

Thank you, Robert! Great big work for memories about American heroes!