Photographs of the Harvard Unit assembled by Geraldine K. Martin
Description:
In the summer of 1915, Geraldine Kemmis Martin (b. 1887) traveled to Paris as an operating nurse with the Harvard Unit of the American Ambulance Hospital and assembled an album of photographs of her colleagues and experiences in World War I. The Harvard Unit, under the direction of Dr. Harvey Cushing, included house surgeons of Massachusetts General Hospital and the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, including Dr. Elliott Carr Cutler, and also Harvard Medical School faculty members Drs. Richard P. Strong and Robert B. Osgood. After the war, Geraldine K. Martin married Cushing's associate, neurosurgeon Gilbert Horrax (1887-1957). Photographs of the Harvard Unit in World War I, including ambulances, a portrait of the unit, the unit arriving in France, a portrait of Geraldine K. Martin, a portrait of Harvey Cushing, and a portrait of the officers of the ward
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