On this day in 1940, Mrs. Roosevelt posed in front of cameras and a microphone at the headquarters of the American Red Cross near the White House. She was making an appeal for contributions to the $10,000,000 relief fund established to aid civilians and wounded in the European war. Behind Mrs. Roosevelt stands R. Tait McKenzie's sculpture honoring Jane Delano and the nursing profession. Delano, picture below in her Red Cross uniform, was related to FDR through his mother.
This statue was inspired by Delano, a nursing pioneer and founder of American Red Cross Nursing. Her groundbreaking work in nurse training and practice resulted in thousands of nurses ready for active service when the US entered World War I. She died in France on duty serving her nation and the Red Cross in 1919. The statue’s inscription reads “To Jane A. Delano and the 296 nurses who died in the War–1917-1918.” Below, Dame Maud McCarthy of the British Nursing Corps places flowers on Delano’s grave at Arlington National Cemetery.
(Photos courtesy of the Library of Congress, Harris and Ewing Collection)
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