One thousand wounded soldiers were received at the Base Hospital 26 in Allerey, France during one day in July, 1918. Some patients await treatment on stretchers on the floor while other patients lie on stretchers stacked four high on wooden racks.
The Book Fair, like the Mount Sinai Ball, was a defining Auxiliary fundraiser. Hundreds of volunteers worked year-round on the sale. Books for the sale were donated by individuals, organizations and department stores. The sale itself was held at Southdale Mall in the public atrium.
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An aerial view of the garden at Elliot Park in downtown Minneapolis as seen from the upper floors of The Swedish Hospital. A decade earlier this park was still pasture land at the Elliot Farm.
Side view of the Vandenburgh Nurses Residence at The Swedish Hospital just prior to its demolition in the 1960s. This home was in near continuous use by the hospital beginning in the early twentieth century.
Two doctors at St. Mary's Hospital attend a boy whose leg was injured in an accident. St. Mary's was owned and operated by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet from 1887-1991.
This photograph shows a building that was originally used as a tuberculosis ward at the St. Peter State Hospital. It later served as a recreational facility. Sources at the hospital state that it was constructed in the first decade of the twentieth century.
An internal view of the toilet room at the Lymanhurst Pediatric Hospital and School, which operated from 1914-1926 as a branch of Minneapolis General Hospital.