Two photographs show the Red Cross House and YMCA hut. These spaces placed hospitality, recreation and personal contact alongside medical care. The hospital diary also records Red Cross houses being pressed into service as emergency influenza wards in October 1918.
Evidence, credit & reuse: Public domain in the United States: published 1919. Complete scan page reproduced; sideways plates rotated for reading. Publication date is not an exact exposure date.
Source: History and Roster of the United States Army General Hospital No. 16 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919), scan page 57. Internet Archive / Library of Congress.
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Silent Grounds Collective, William Wirt Winchester Hospital, SGC-ED085, ED085-P57, “Red Cross House and the YMCA hut.” Source: History and Roster of the United States Army General Hospital No. 16 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919), scan page 57. Internet Archive / Library of Congress.. https://www.loc.gov/item/unk82041098/. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-24.