Collection: Elda Graybill World War I scrapbook | ArchivesSpace Public Interface

Scope and Contents

The scrapbook contains photographs, postcards from French landmarks, newspaper clippings relating to wartime nursing, and a few handwritten notes.

A folder of miscellaneous material includes a telegram addressed to Graybill, a few loose photographs, and two issues of "The Hatchet: Published on the High Seas" newsletter (March 1919).

The supplemental booklet, prepared by Graybill's great-niece, contains photocopies of the scrapbook, as well as documentation about Graybill's life, including her death certificate, service records, genealogical research, newspaper clippings, a photocopy of "Base Hospital 34 in the World War" (1922)

Dates

1917 - 1919

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research; access by appointment.

Conditions Governing Use

This material is in the public domain.

Biographical note

Elda Graybill (1879-1957) was the eldest child of Irvin and Barbara Ellen Graybill of Snyder County, Pennsylvania. After several year of teaching, she attended the Medico-Chirurgical College and Hospital of Philadelphia and qualified as a nurse. While working for the State Tuberculosis Dispensary, she joined the Army Nurses Corps at the age of 38. She traveled to the French front in late 1917 with the Episcopal Hospital, Philadephia unit and was stationed at Base Hospital No. 34 near Nantes.

After the war, Miss Graybill returned to Snyder County, where she served as a nurse for the county government for the rest of her career.