Colleges and Universities - Johns Hopkins - Nurses from Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, in New York on way to France

Original Caption: Nurses from Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, in New York on way to France. More than 1 hundred Red Cross nurses, twenty-seven physicians and surgeons, and 160 other college men, the contribution of the Johns Hopkins Medical School to war aid, reached New York for service abroad. They were under the direction of Major J.D. Heysinger, Major J.M.T. Finney and Miss Bessie Baker. With a few exceptions, the nurses were Johns Hopkins graduates and the physicians members of the Johns Hopkins staff. Many of the 160 men who were with the detachment are medical students; they served as orderlies, stretcher bearers and ambulance drivers. They formed one of the first large hospital units to be put in the foreign field by this country, June 9, 1917.

Date Taken: 6/9/1917

Photographer: Underwood & Underwood
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