Photograph of American Field Services Ambulance in France
photographer
A. Piatt Andrew
(La Porte, Indiana, 1873 - 1936, Gloucester, Massachusetts)
Date1916
Place MadeFrance, Europe
MediumGelatin silver print
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.010035
eMuseum ID719966
Previous NumberARC.007478
Previous NumberP3w45.x
Other NumberARC.000220.x
TMS Source ID27293
Last Updated8/9/24
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Not on viewWeb CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner's friend, A. Piatt Andrew, sent her these images of men working for the American Field Service (AFS) during World War I. Andrew, a trained economist, former Harvard professor, and former Congressperson, founded the AFS in 1914 to run ambulances and provide medical services for the French Army. Isabella donated to the organization in order to sponsor an ambulance, and Andrew wrote to Isabella frequently about the war and the work the AFS performed, including the services provided by the specific ambulance she supported.
BibliographyNotesNathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald. Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life (Boston, 2022), pp.126-129, fig. 68.
Elizabeth Reluga, "Women on Display: Elizabeth Roberts Wentworth," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1 March 2022, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/women-display-elizabeth-wentworth-roberts
Elizabeth Reluga, "Women on Display: Elizabeth Roberts Wentworth," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1 March 2022, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/women-display-elizabeth-wentworth-roberts
ProvenanceNotesEnclosed in a letter from congressman A. Piatt Andrew to Isabella Stewart Gardner from France, 24 July 1916 (ARC.000220)
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