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Four women wearing long white dresses and caps, with a medical cross band on their left arms.
American Red Cross nurses in Tampa (1898).

Red Cross nurses begin providing assistance to the military during wartime.

Date: 1898

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American Red Cross nurses in Tampa (1898).

Seven hundred nurses serve in the military during the Spanish-American War.