In the limelight : nurse wins the D. S. cross

Beatrice Mary MacDonald, who served on the reserve nurse corps of the US Army during World War I, receiving the Distinguished Service Cross from Secretary of War Newton D. Baker. MacDonald was blinded in on eye from a bomb dropped on her post while at a British casualty clearing station.

Publication date: 1919-03-23

Size: 14.7 x 12 cm

Publisher: Tribune Company

Print type: grayscale

Language:

• English

Subject(s):

• Nurses--American--1910-1920
• MacDonald, Beatrice Mary
• World War, 1914-1918--Women

Genre(s):

• Photographs

Type(s):

• still image
• text

Copyright(s):

• These materials are either in the public domain, according to U.S. copyright law, or permission has been obtained from rights owners. The digital version and supplementary materials are available for all educational uses worldwide.

Is part of:

• The Janet A. Ginsburg Chicago Tribune Image Collection

Source(s):

• Chicago Sunday Tribune (March 23, 1919), Rotogravure Section, p. 9

Format(s):

• application/pdf
• image/jpeg

Contributor(s):

• Harris & Ewing