American Red Cross - Groups - Colored Auxiliary of Bakersfield Chapter, Bakersfield, California
Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special StaffsSeries: American Unofficial Collection of World War I PhotographsFile Unit: American Red Cross - Groups
Original caption: NUMBER AU American Red Cross PHOTOGRAPHER 165-WW 58 A 43 REC'D 5-23-19 DESCRIPTION: COLORED AUXILIARY OF BAKERSFIELD CHAPTER,BAKERSFIELD,CALIFORNIA. ISSUED: S February the Twelfth One thousand Seven hundred and ninety three" and as in duty bound, &c. Margaret S. Gittings Witness John Hanan
This black and white photograph is mounted on a card. It shows nine people standing in a chevron formation on steps. Six are nurses, in long dresses and long veils of early 20th century nurses. Two men stand in the back in suits and hats, with Red Cross armbands on their sleeves. A woman in a dark ladies suit with a large brimmed hat stands on the top step. Behind them you can see a large stone building.
27 April 1918
A nursing sister and two other nursing staff on a RAMC ambulance train near Doullens, Somme.
They are members of either the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve or the Territorial Force Nursing Service.
Romaine Brooks ~ La France Croisée, 1914, oil on canvas (Ida Rubinstein) | SAAM-1970.69_2
Romaine Brooks ~ Ida Rubinstein, 1917, oil on canvas | Smithsonian American Art Museum
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In La France Croisée, Brooks voiced her opposition to World War I and raised money for the Red Cross and French relief organizations. Ida Rubinstein was (...) continue reading
"Will you speak to my mother, then?" Kate turned her questioning gaze to him as they walked, their hands clasped together swaying with every step. “About a courtship?”
"Yes, Kate." He replied dutifully for what was probably the umpteenth time in the past ten minutes.
"But you will do it today, yes?"
"Kate..." He groaned, sighing tiredly. "Won't you allow me some time? To think of what to say and prepare?"
"No."
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After finally being forced to admit his own feelings and accept them as they were, Anthony and Mary have a very important talk as the nurse reveals more about her life before she married Arjun Sharma.
HELLO MY DARLINGS! HAPPY FOUR DAYS TILL SEASON 3! UGH, I'M SO EXCITED! ARE YOU EXCITED? I SURE AM!
To celebrate (a lil late sure) mothers' day, let's see our fave Nurse being a great mum, shall we?
To my girlies @harnitbee and @ladystanbury, again all the thanks for all the help and support while I wrote this chaos. I would never have done it without you.
I also have been plotting (with their kind help) the next parts of this story and I have to say... This is so easily going to pass the 100K mark. It's actually very funny looking back at the story to the moment I said the backstory of how Anthony and Kate came to be together would be one chapter, maybe two (looks back at the 7th chapter and 50k words where they just admitted their feelings for each other). What a joke.
I hope you enjoy this. Let me know what you think so I can survive till Thursday.
Olga's three loves and her codenames/nicknames for them:
Alexander Shvedov - "AKSHV", 1913
"Sunday. 10 February. ... I sat with AKSHV the whole time and fell deeply in love with him..."
Pavel Voronov - "S.", 1913
"Monday. 9 October. ..unbearable not to see S. for so long..."
Dmitri Shakhv-Bagov - "Mitya", 1915-1916
"Wednesday. 30 December. ...Mitya had a physical [checkup], later he came back and almost the entire time we sat together, played checkers and did just plain nothing. He is so good, Lord knows…."
Sources:
The Diary of Olga Romanov : Royal Witness to the Russian Revolution, Helen Azar
just checked the word doc which has my draft of the shrewsbury wound-john bradmore sequence, thinking it was around 10k long. it's actually 19,242 words long. double what i thought it was. holy crap.
i swear i'm always tempted to add an oc nurse muse because i think i don't write any/that many medical muses until i start writing Mccoy and realize just HOW many medical i do actually have. SIX.