Women's Ambulance Defense Corps on the steps of City Hall, Santa Monica, 1941
Item Overview
- Title
- Women's Ambulance Defense Corps on the steps of City Hall, Santa Monica, 1941
- Photographer
- Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
- Date Created
- June 25, 1941
- Date
- 1941-06-25
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Notes
- Description
-
Photograph of a Women's Ambulance Defense Corps unit, in uniform, standing at attention on the steps of Santa Monica City Hall. A banner with the American colors and eagle reading, "E. Pluribus Unum," hangs above the entrance, flanked by two stripped banners. Below, American flags are held by six Corps members in the back row.
The Women's Ambulance and Defense Corps was a volunteer organization open to women ages 18-45. Along with Red Cross First Aid courses, the women were trained in a litany of subjects including: ambulance (and heavy vehicle) driving and repair, mechanics, X-ray, map reading, semaphoring, radio sending and receiving, and photography. - Caption
- Text from negative sleeve: 2922. State Guard. Santa Monica Womens Ambulance Corps, 6/25/41.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photographic negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
group portraits
acetate film
black-and-white photographs - Names
- Santa Monica City Hall (Santa Monica, Calif.)
- Location
- California--Santa Monica
- Longitude
- 34.0113
- Latitude
- -118.491736
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Women--United States
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1300_5737
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002d7zw5
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.