This 1918 service banner was hung by New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston to honor its medical workers serving in the US Army Nurse Corps during World War I. The corps played a critical role in treating Allied forces in hospital settings that were close to battlefields, challenging notions of where women belonged during wartime. 聽

Photography by Caitlin Cunningham

Campus Curiosities

A look at some of the wildly random historical treasures of the University Archives and Special Collections.聽