Esther Gilbert Scrapbook
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- Outdoor theater, Tacloban, Philippines
- A newly constructed outdoor theater at the Navy installation in Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines, in 1945. The theater has a stage on which a movie screen hangs, benches for seating, and a crude elevated projection room. (Photo taken from Esther Gilbert Scrapbook).
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- Paul Jordan and Jack Graff at Tachikawa Army Air Base, circa 1946
- Army servicemen Paul Jordan and Jack Graff pose beside a structure at Tachikawa Army Air Base, Japan, circa 1946.
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- Peg Graveur and Colonel Martin in Adelaide, Australia
- Red Cross member Peg Graveur and Colonel Martin stand outside the ARC service club in Adelaide, Australia, in 1944. Graveur wears the Red Cross military welfare winter uniform. (Photo taken from Esther Gilbert Scrapbook).
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- Peg Graveur and Ruth Hutchinson
- Red Cross worker Peg Graveur poses with American Consul Ruth Hutchinson in Adelaide, Australia, in 1944. Graveur wears the Red Cross military welfare winter uniform with military welfare overseas cap. (Photo taken from Esther Gilbert Scrapbook).
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- Queen Street Red Cross Cafe in Brisbane
- A shot from across Queen Street of the Australian Red Cross Cafe in Brisbane, as seen in late 1944. Groups of servicemen linger out front, and a banner above it reads, "Red Cross, Give Often, Give Now." (Photo taken from Esther Gilbert Scrapbook).
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- Quonset hut post office, Tacloban, Philippines
- Front view of the Quonset huts that served as the fleet post office in Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines, in 1945. (Photo taken from Esther Gilbert Scrapbook).
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- Red Cross Headquarters MP on motorcycles, Adelaide, Australia, 1944
- Red Cross Headquarters MP (military police) officers, Phil and Johnnie Pascucci, pose on MP motorcycles in Adelaide, Australia, in 1944.
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- Red Cross Headquarters MP, Adelaide, Australia, 1944
- Red Cross Headquarters MP (military police) officers, Phil and Blitz, in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1944.
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- Red Cross Headquarters workers with koala, Adelaide, Australia, circa 1944
- Red Cross Headquarters workers Johnnie Pascucci, Al Parsons, and Mike Angell pose with a koala in Adelaide, Australia, circa 1944.
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- Red Cross billet in Manila, Philippines
- The exterior of a Red Cross billet in Manila, Philippines, with two jeeps parked in front, October 1945. (Photo taken from Esther Gilbert Scrapbook).
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- Red Cross billets in Tacloban, Philippines
- Red Cross billet of Esther Gilbert in Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines, in 1945. The quarters are surrounded by palm trees and drying laundry hangs on clotheslines attached to the building. (Photo taken from Esther Gilbert Scrapbook).
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- Red Cross club at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
- The exterior of the Red Cross club in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, in 1945. According to Esther Gilbert, this facility, surrounded by tropical trees, was typical of Red Cross clubs in the Pacific. (Photo taken from Esther Gilbert Scrapbook).
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- Red Cross servicemen and women, South Australia
- Colonel Baird, an unidentified woman, Peg Graveur, and Lieutenant Bill Leiziar sit on a hill in South Australia in 1944. (Photo taken from Esther Gilbert Scrapbook).
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- Red Cross workers at Stuartholme school
- A group of Red Cross workers pose on the steps of Stuartholme, a Catholic school for girls in Brisbane, Australia, that served as home of the 42nd General Hospital in July 1944. (Photo taken from Esther Gilbert Scrapbook).
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- Red Cross workers in Brisbane
- Five female Red Cross workers, including Esther Gilbert (far right) pose with a serviceman outside the ARC's Queenscliff facility in Brisbane in late 1944. (Photo taken from Esther Gilbert Scrapbook).
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- Red Cross workers primp in front of bombed building
- Five Red Cross workers in fatigues pose as if primping using a compact mirror being held out by Ginnie Bowman. The group, which also includes Dody Hamlin (far right) stands in front of a damaged building labeled "Power Room No. 3" on the island of Corregidor, Philippines, in August 1945. (Photo taken from Esther Gilbert Scrapbook).
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- Red Cross workers sit on a tarmac in Australia
- Five Red Cross workers in fatigues sit on a bench on a tarmac in front of an airplane while in Australia in November 1944. The women, stationed at the U.S. Pacific Theater headquarters in Noumea, New Caledonia, appear to be wearing the WAC (Women's Army Corps) summer work uniform with the Red Cross overseas cap. The Red Cross was authorized to be issued army uniforms and supplies when needed. (Photo taken from Esther Gilbert Scrapbook).
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- Rubble and damaged building, Manila, Philippines
- A lone GI looks at a large pile of rubble and a damaged building in Manila, Philippines, in October 1945. (Photo taken from Esther Gilbert Scrapbook).
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- Seaman Robert Spiegl and Japanese children
- A seaman hands a cookie to a Japanese girl with a baby on her back outside the American Red Cross canteen in Yokohama, Japan, in September 1945. The official ARC caption for the photo reads, "American servicemen are always suckers for babies! Seaman 1st class Robert Spiegl, 5712 North Western ave., Chicago, Ill., gives a cookie to a Japanese child outside the first Red Cross club and canteen to be opened in Japan." (Photo taken from Esther Gilbert Scrapbook).
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- Sergeant Claude Thompson, Tachikawa Army Air Base, Japan, circa 1946
- Sergeant Claude Thompson, in fatigues, sits on the front of an ARC jeep at Tachikawa Army Air Base, Japan, circa 1946.
