Language: English / Subject name ssim: Pershing, John J. (John Joseph) / Topic: Red Cross - Arab Americans and the Automobile: Voices from the Factory

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Description:: Dorothy M. Harrison describes the efforts of the Louisville Unit of the Women's Overseas Service League to collect oral histories and then talks about the life of Sara Landau who served in the American Red Cross as an unpaid volunteer during World War One. Harrison reads from an interview Landau gave in which she talks about answering telephones and carrying messages in Paris and working in a hospital in Vannes writing letters for the wounded and running a library, and a game room. Landau also describes a visit to the hospital by General Pershing and how she felt on Armistice Day in November 1918.
Date Issued:: 1983-01-01T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:: Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project

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