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Mary (Pat) Elizabeth Partridge Collection

Mary Elizabeth Partridge (1912-1989) of Mt. Airy, North Carolina, served as a recreation supervisor for the American Red Cross from 1943 to 1971.

American Red Cross workers at Ft. Bliss
Members of the American Red Cross pose for a group photograph at William Beaumont Army Hospital, Fort Bliss, Texas, on 14 January 1952. They are dressed in American Red Cross Military Welfare Corps winter uniforms. Mary "Pat" Partridge appears to be back row, second from the right.
Mary Elizabeth Partridge at work, 1967
Photograph of Mary Elizabeth Partridge in an American Red Cross uniform. She is holding a cardboard box and directing young girls.
Mary Elizabeth Partridge receives award
Mary "Pat" Partridge receives a pin honoring her twenty-five years of service in the American Red Cross on 30 July 1968 at U.S. Naval Hospital Guam.
Mary Elizabeth Partridge receives award, 1968
Mary "Pat" Partridge receives a pin honoring her twenty-five years of service in the American Red Cross on 30 July 1968 at U.S. Naval Hospital Guam.
Mary Elizabeth Partridge working with children, 1967
Mary Elizabeth Partridge, in her American Red Cross uniform and cardigan, sits around a table with bags of potatoes. Several children can be seen in the photograph, which appears to depict a Red Cross holiday food drive.
Mary Elizabeth Patridge
Portrait of Mary "Pat" Partridge wearing an American Red Cross Military Welfare Corps winter uniform and overseas cap.
Pat Partridge in ARC uniform, ca. 1945
Photograph of Mary "Pat" Partridge seated in a chair, wearing an American Red Cross hospital worker's uniform. The photo was likely taken at Camp Hood, Texas.
Special orders for German-American relations
Pamphlet of orders issued by Jacob L. Devers, commanding general of the Sixth Army Group, describing how Allied service members should interact with German civilians. It portrays German civilians as dangerous and untrustworthy, and forbids U.S. soldiers from socializing or even shaking hands with Germans.

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