Depot Canteen Service, Northern Pacific Railway Station

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DescriptionA World War I Red Cross canteen service, serving hot meals to soldiers, in the Northern Pacific Railway / Union Depot on Montana Avenue. See 'Local Canteen Service Praised By Easterner', Billings Gazette, July 20, 1919 and 'Rev Anshutz is Due Home Today: 92 Soldiers Arrive here from Fort Russell', Billings Gazette, July 3, 1919. Organized in September, 1917 with D.W. Grieve, formerly the quartermaster of K Company, Montana National Guard, supervising. An affiliate of the Red Cross. Almost 20,000 soldiers were served a meal, over 14,000 packs of cigarettes were donated and over 4,000 newspapers were given away over a period of two years. For list and histories of groups organized around the war effort - See Yellowstone County, Montana, in the World War, 1917-1918-1919, by William W. Gail, 1919.TypeImageCreatorUnknownGenrephotographsDate1919SubjectAmerican Red CrossUniformsUnited StatesArmyWorld War, 1914-1918Contributing InstitutionBillings Public LibraryGeographic CoverageBillings, MontanaDigital CollectionBillings - Images of PlacesDigital Formatimage/jpgDigitization SpecificationEpson 1640 XL scanner. 8 x 10 image at 300 dpi, 8 bit greyscale. Master Image size - 18,000 kb.Date Digitized2015copyrightNoC-US

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