Red Cross Volunteers in Front of Congdon Hotel
1917
Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
Photograph of World War I Red Cross volunteers in and around automobiles in front of L.L. Kidder Hardware and an unidentified storefront, located in the Congdon Hotel building. The cars are adorned with Red Cross banners and pennants; some volunteers are wearing armbands and/or uniforms. First row, left to right: Archie Meyers (banker from First State Bank), three unidentified women in car, Maude Mitchell, Gertrude Eastman. Seated in 2nd car: Millie Ferris, Gladys Bliss, Gladys Neal. Sitting on running board of 2nd car - Ed Aylsworth, Hester Thorpe, Frances Bliss. Florence Towle and Winifred St. Clair on third car. Others are unidentified. People: Meyers, Archie; Mitchell, Maude; Eastman, Gertrude; Ferris, Millie; Bliss, Gladys; Neal, Gladys; Aylsworth, Edward; Thorpe, Hester; Bliss, Frances; St. Clair, Winifred; Towle, Florence
More about this item
- Identifier
- ghs20250190008
- Description
- Photograph of World War I Red Cross volunteers in and around automobiles in front of L.L. Kidder Hardware and an unidentified storefront, located in the Congdon Hotel building. The cars are adorned with Red Cross banners and pennants; some volunteers are wearing armbands and/or uniforms. First row, left to right: Archie Meyers (banker from First State Bank), three unidentified women in car, Maude Mitchell, Gertrude Eastman. Seated in 2nd car: Millie Ferris, Gladys Bliss, Gladys Neal. Sitting on running board of 2nd car - Ed Aylsworth, Hester Thorpe, Frances Bliss. Florence Towle and Winifred St. Clair on third car. Others are unidentified. People: Meyers, Archie; Mitchell, Maude; Eastman, Gertrude; Ferris, Millie; Bliss, Gladys; Neal, Gladys; Aylsworth, Edward; Thorpe, Hester; Bliss, Frances; St. Clair, Winifred; Towle, Florence
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Location
- Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
- Date
- 1917
- Subject
- World War I
- American Red Cross
- Automobiles
- Historic Downtown businesses
- Historic Downtown Gresham
- Provenance
- At least two of the women in the picture, Gertrude Eastman and Winifred St. Clair, had brothers who were serving overseas in World War I at the time (Henry and Edgar Eastman, and Leslie St. Clair Sr.). Gertrude Eastman's mother was the head of the Red Cross sewing room in Gresham.
- Type
- StillImage
- Relation
- Gresham Heritage
- Item sets
- Gresham Heritage
