[028663] (Americana - 20th Century - Quogue Long Island - American Red
Cross - WWI).1917 - 1919 Detailed
Manuscript Memorandum Record Book of the Quogue Branch American Red Cross. Quogue, Long Island New York: Entries
handwritten on (19) pages; dated from May of 1917 to July 1919. Evidence from
the pages of a variety of items made by the American Red Cross volunteers in
this east end village and sent to the French and Belgian war front hospital &
refugee relief effort: surgical dressings, bathrobes, shirts, pajamas, mules,
unbleached bandages, cup covers, pillows, shirts, socks, foot covers, slings,
gauze compresses, wipes, rolls, hospital shirts, fracture comfort pillows,
many-tailed bandages, property bags, refugee skirts, shawls, sponges, pads,
comfort bags, helmets, hand & bath towels, handkerchiefs, blouses,
pinafores, boys' undershirts, mufflers, mittens, sweaters, operating gowns,
afghans, stockings, Christmas bags and more. The details include the numbers of
items made and sometimes the sizes; also noting the weight of the items sent in
total and the various centers for on-shipment, including Camp Upton, New York
City, Southampton Hospital and Newark. A small laid-in scrap note with the
penciled notation, "Sent in $2715.15 - $ 2793.15 pledged" on A.A.
Tuthill Pharmacy Quogue, LI. Rx notepaper. Back page also lists The Laurel
Hospital White Rock NC, Mrs. Geo. H. Packard and Frances L. Goodrich in
Ashville NC; this hospital was founded in Madison Co., by Frances L. Goodrich
and Mrs. Packard's husband, Dr. Packard & closed in 1932; the connection,
if any, with the Quogue ARC is unknown. Book approx. 4" x 6 3/4"size,
illustrated thin cardstock covers, cloth spine covering, mostly worn away.
Pages darkened some, cover creased, corner clipped at bottom front; handwriting
clear and in good condition.