Receiving The Manila Volunteer

Receiving The Manila Volunteer

Women
California
19th Century
The San Francisco Call
Red Cross
Manila

A newspaper article from The San Francisco Call dated Sunday June 12, 1898 titled ‘Receiving the Manila Volunteers’. Mrs Wendell Easton, the Chairman Committee of Nurses within the Red Cross Society states how they plan to ‘fit out a hospital’ on a ship that would be sent to Manila with a large body of nurses from California. However, within the same article, Lieutenant-Colonel and Deputy Surgeon-General of the US Army responds by stating he fears that the women “could not do much with a ship”. The article uses two photographs and two illustrations showing the help the women have given. One illustration shows a nurse tending to a wounded man whilst below a photograph shows men cheering on the Red Cross ladies after a reception. The article is in favour of the Red Cross but still shows a single criticism which may help their cause even more.

The San Francisco Call Newspaper – Published in San Francisco

Library of Congress

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1898-06-12/ed-1/seq-21/#date1=1800&index=4&rows=20&words=women&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=California&date2=1900&proxtext=women&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1
[Date accessed – 09/11/17]

12 June 1898

Freya Harper

Image provided by: University of California

English

Textual - printed newspaper

19th century California