Mundelein Students Knitting for Red Cross
Item
Title
Mundelein Students Knitting for Red Cross
Description
Five Mundelein students stand in height order, posing with their knitting needles and in-progress projects against a blank wall.
This image appears in the Skyscraper student newspaper on December 18, 1941 with the following headline: "Knit One, Purl Two, for Uncle Sam"
And the following caption:
"Concentrating on their knitting are (extreme left) Marian Anthulis, who led a phalanx of Greek Youth in Athens before Greece entered World War II, Patricia Tierney, heading a committee to secure a Mundelein Red Cross unit, June Eng, (center) and Patricia Moy (extreme right), American-born Chinese sophomores, and Ruth Wagner, all knitting for Red Cross."
This image appears in the Skyscraper student newspaper on December 18, 1941 with the following headline: "Knit One, Purl Two, for Uncle Sam"
And the following caption:
"Concentrating on their knitting are (extreme left) Marian Anthulis, who led a phalanx of Greek Youth in Athens before Greece entered World War II, Patricia Tierney, heading a committee to secure a Mundelein Red Cross unit, June Eng, (center) and Patricia Moy (extreme right), American-born Chinese sophomores, and Ruth Wagner, all knitting for Red Cross."
Date, date span, or circa acceptable
1941
File name
Student Activities Photo Files, Wartime Activities
Sources archive, University Archives and Special Collections or Women and Leadership Archives
Women and Leadership Archives
Source
Mundelein College Records, Student Activities Photo Files, Wartime Activities
Subject
Mundelein College, Student life organizations, World War II
Rights
The online images are supplied for reference purposes only. Permission to copy or publish must be obtained from the Women and Leadership Archives, Loyola University Chicago. Please send inquiries to wlarchives@luc.edu.
