Floods

Photograph of Edward Webber comforting his wife after they lost seven of their immediate family including their two children in the flood that occurred in East Stroudsburg, PA. The photograph was taken in a Red Cross shelter.
Date: August 21, 1955
Creator: Owen, A.Y.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Mary Ann Gerger, Red Cross Volunteer

Photograph of Mary Ann Gerger volunteering at a children's hospital in Detroit, MI.
Date: July 15, 1959
Creator: Detroit News
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Nurse Aids Graduating Class

Photograph of the nurses aid graduates having completed their instructions by the American Red Cross Oklahoma County Chapter.
Date: 1959~
Creator: Mitchell Byfield Studios
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Gray Ladies of Oklahoma County

Photograph of unidentified Gray Ladies at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, OK.
Date: 1958-09~
Creator: Tinker Air Force Photography
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

General Alfred M. Gruenther

Photograph of General Alfred M. Gruenther receiving the Volunteer of the Year award for 1958 from Mrs. Garnene Hales. The general was president of the American Red Cross from 1957 to 1964.
Date: April 16, 1958
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

First Aid Training

Photograph of students in Newcastle, OK demonstrating first aid skills learned in Junior Red Cross. The students are (L-R): Betty McMillin, Karen Smith and Patsy Griffith.
Date: 1954-10~
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fargo, North Dakota Tornado

Photograph of Mrs. G.B. Stevenson, Red Cross volunteer, helping to find clothes for Mr. and Mrs. Roy Murphy's five children after a tornado hit Fargo, ND.
Date: 1957~
Creator: Palmer
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Evacuation Hospitals

Photograph of the ceremonies during activation of the 44th Evacuation (EVA) Hospital of the US American Red Cross. In the center in a service uniform is Billy Krause of the US Army Reserve Center in Oklahoma City, OK.
Date: April 1, 1959
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Book Donations

Photograph of students and two adults looking at an open box of books donated by American Red Cross Children's Fund to Hickman Hills, MO, and Ruskin, MO junior and senior high school libraries destroyed by a tornado. In the photograph are (L-R): students: Danny Lambert, Daphne Demetrius, Sharon Garner, Jay Harris, Anne Kerene Warren. Included also are: Bob Davenport, Dr. Wagner and Barbara Bayless, of the Kansas City-Jackson County Chapter of the President of the Junior Red Cross Board.
Date: May 20, 1957
Creator: Hodson
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Hunting Safety and First Aid

Photograph of three unidentified men out hunting where one of the three was injured. The photograph is to show the right was to carry an injured person to assistance.
Date: September 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Nurse Aids

Photograph of the nurse aids at Tinker Air Force Base.
Date: September 1958
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

First Aid Training

Photograph of Red Cross instructors training employees on how to give first aid.
Date: May 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

First Aid Training

Photograph of Dick Potter and John Montague of the American Red Cross showing off the First Aid Textbook and charts available for instruction.
Date: February 1950
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Volunteer Ceremony

Photograph of the capping ceremony at Tinker Air Force Base by Marguerite Stevens, Oklahoma County Chapter's Volunteer Services Chairman. The recipient of the cap is UNIDENTIFIED.
Date: 1959~
Creator: OCAMA-Tinker Air Force Base
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Blood Bank Preparation

Photograph of two Red Cross workers preparing blood bank kits. One of the women in the photograph is Mrs. Mary Clarence Roberts and the other is UNIDENTIFIED.
Date: 1959~
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Gray Lady Training

Photograph of unidentified Gray Ladies in training at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, OK.
Date: 1958-09~
Creator: Tinker Air Force Photography
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

First Aid Training

Photograph of three unidentified women practicing their first aid skills,
Date: 1954~
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History