Elizabeth H. Ashe was cofounder of the Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center (the first settlement house in San Francisco). She also led the nursing staff of the Children's Bureau of the Red Cross in France from summer 1917 to summer 1919. The bureau attended to the medical care of French and refugee children. During the war Ashe also nursed wounded servicemen. She wrote about her experiences in "Intimate letters from France during America's first year of war," published in 1918. [digital text available through the HathiTrust]
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Source note: Additional information from member emfoxwell (#48758727).
Elizabeth H. Ashe was cofounder of the Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center (the first settlement house in San Francisco). She also led the nursing staff of the Children's Bureau of the Red Cross in France from summer 1917 to summer 1919. The bureau attended to the medical care of French and refugee children. During the war Ashe also nursed wounded servicemen. She wrote about her experiences in "Intimate letters from France during America's first year of war," published in 1918. [digital text available through the HathiTrust]
Source note: Additional information from member emfoxwell (#48758727).
Source note: Additional information from member emfoxwell (#48758727).
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