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Title: Lulu Ryan Rolston papers
Date (bulk): 1914-1918
Collection Number: 2006C7
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
2 manuscript boxes, 7 oversize boxes, 1 oversize folder, 1 framed caricature
(5.4 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Personal documents, newspaper issues, scrapbooks, photographs, and postcards relating to Allied nursing in France during World
War I.
Creator:
Rolston, Lulu Ryan, 1890-
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2006.
[Identification of item], Lulu Ryan Rolston papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
April 23, 1889 Born, Rouses Point, New York
1914 Graduated from the New York Hospital
1915-1916 Nurse at American Ambulance Hospital of Paris
1916 Taught the Carrell-Dakin Method in the United States
1917 Worked at Ellis Island, New York
1917-1919 Nurse at New York Hospital, Base #9 A.E.F. Hospital in France
1918 Decorated with the Medaille des Epidemies
1919 Discharged and sailed for the U.S. on the George Washington
1920-1930 Public Health Nurse for the City of Los Angeles
1940 Served as WWII nurse
1980 Honored by President Jimmy Carter in recognition of services to the U.S. Armed Forces
1980 Died
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains a series of mementos from Lulu Rolston's time at the American Ambulance Hospital of Paris the and
New York Base #9 Hospital in France. Assigned to the New York Base #9 Hospital, Rolston worked as an Allied nurse during World
War I. Rolston treated soldiers wounded in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, which was one of the largest battles in U.S. military
history. The collection highlights her time as an Allied nurse with a series of personal documents, newspapers, scrapbooks,
photographs, and postcards. A number of her husbands, Howard Rolston's, photographs and documents are also included in the
collection. Howard Rolston was an enlisted soldier in France while Lulu Rolston worked at the New York Base #9 Hospital. The
bulk of the collection involves Lulu Rolston's work in and around France. The collection contains documents written in French.
Box one includes an inventory of the collection.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care
Nursing -- France
United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces