Three Pierce Arrow and one GMC ambulances at Minneapolis General Hospital; drivers pictured left to right are Louis Parsons, Nick Polucci, and Ray Maisonneuve.
A 1949 Packard was the first ambulance for the City of New Brighton. A group of local men organized to provide the vital ambulance service at a time when there were no hospitals in the local community. The vehicle sits in front of the New Brighton Fire Station, built in 1947.
Two Minneapolis City Hospital staff members are shown transferring a patient from a Winton ambulance to the Minneapolis City Hospital's Contagion Building.