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CA-202 First American Flag for Major Lower, Rouen
CA-202-A1 For Major WS. Lower, The First American Flag Hoisted by the First Military Contingent Sent to Europe, Base Hospital No 4. USA. Lakeside Unit. France, May 25, 1917
CA-202-A2 The First American Flag to Fly with an Allied European Power in Time of War
CA-202-A3 The First American Flag Hoisted by the First Military Contingent Sent to Europe, Base Hospital No 4, U.S.A. (Lakeside Unit). France, May 25th, 1917
Titles in Caroline Armington’s etching record book: First American Flag for Major Lower, Rouen;
For Major WS. Lower, The First American Flag Hoisted by the First Military Contingent Sent to Europe, Base Hospital No 4. USA. Lakeside Unit. France, May 25, 1917
Year: 1917
Number: 202
Size:
States: 2
Titles on Print:
CA-202-A2 The First American Flag to Fly with an Allied European Power in Time of War
CA-202-A3 The First American Flag Hoisted by the First Military Contingent Sent to Europe, Base Hospital No 4, U.S.A. (Lakeside Unit). France, May 25th, 1917
Initials or Signature and Date in Plate: CHA 1918 c.l.
Planned Edition: not mentioned.
Total Number of Impressions: not mentioned.
Numbers in Pencil:
One not numbered
1st state, 2 prints. 2/2
1, 32/50
61, 145/175
Signature in Pencil: Caroline H. Armington
Dedication:
Caroline Armington’s etching record book contains the following notes for this print:
1st state 1 print
1,
2nd state 23, 54,
Plate in the possession of Dr. W. Lower of Cleveland
Price in Caroline Armington’s etching record book: none.
Plate: Plate was in the possession of Dr. W. Lower of Cleveland
Collections:
PAMA
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Blérancourt, musée franco-américain du château de Blérancourt
The Cleveland Clinic Archives
Exhibitions:
Publications:
-Cleveland Clinic, Magazine, Winter 2020, Cleveland Clinic Archives
-National Library of Medicine, May 9, 2017, US. Army Base Hospital #4 Embarks for Europe, By Susan Speaker.
-Pictorial Album of the First Over There: "Album de la Guerre." Scientific Illustrating Studios, Cleveland, Ohio. 1919. Limited Edition. Cloth. 117 pages, Limited to one thousand copies but further limited to only 50 copies with a pencil-signed Caroline Armington’s etching numbered xx/50 and a ‘’Patron Edition’’ of 175 copies with a pencil-signed Caroline Armington’s etching numbered xx/175. Other copies include a photographic reproduction of the etching.
Comments:
-Listed for 1917 in the detail sheet and for 1918 on the list. 1918 etched in plate.
-Four different titles have been found:
On detail sheet:
CA-202 First American Flag - Rouen. For Major Lower.
On list:
CA-202-A1 For Major WS. Lower, The First American Flag Hoisted by the First Military Contingent Sent to Europe, Base Hospital No 4. USA. Lakeside Unit. France May 25 1917
On one print of first state:
CA-202-A2 The First American Flag to Fly with an Allied European Power in Time of War
On prints of second state included in the PICTORIAL ALBUM OF THE FIRST OVER THERE ALBUM DE LA GUERRE:
CA-202-A3 The First American Flag Hoisted by the First Military Contingent Sent to Europe, Base Hospital No 4, U.S.A. (Lakeside Unit). France, May 25th, 1917.
- Dr. William Edgar Lower (1867–1948) was a prominent American surgeon and one of the four original founders of the Cleveland Clinic in 1921.
In 1917, George W Crile, MD, organized the first American medical unit to land in France during World War I. Informally known as the Lakeside Unit, this group of doctors, nurses and support personnel from Cleveland took over a British military hospital, where they provided care to patients injured in battle. Impressed with the efficiency and collaboration they saw in the military, Dr. Crile, and his partners Frank Bunts, MD, and William Lower, MD, began dreaming of recreating it at home.