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Archival Spotlight

highlighting exciting and unique items from the Archives of the American Field Service and AFS Intercultural Programs

IOM-November-2012
AFS Archives, Archival Spotlight, History

American Ambulance Hospital, circa 1914-1918

Veterans Day is an American federal holiday honoring veterans of all wars on November 11th each year.  Initially, this holiday was known as Armistice Day, which commemorated the signing of…

IOM-October-2012
AFS Archives, Archival Spotlight, History

Hollywood Movie Star Robert Montgomery, June 1940

This image shows Hollywood movie star Robert Montgomery standing with fellow ambulance driver Stuart Benson in front of an American Field Service (AFS) ambulance in Paris, France. Montgomery (born Henry…

IOM-September-2012
AFS Archives, Archival Spotlight, History

Welcome Home, 1965

The picture shows Marketta Mattila (second from right), an AFS Participant from Kankaanpää, Finland, standing with her new host family on the day of her arrival in Huntington Beach, California,…

IOM-August-2012
AFS Archives, Archival Spotlight, History

Morning Exercise, 1917

This image shows Philip Glorieux of Irvington, NJ, boxing an unidentified French mechanic one morning in 1917. Glorieux served alongside the French military as an American Field Service (AFS) ambulance…

IOM-July-2012
AFS Archives, Archival Spotlight, History

High Jump, 1945

Toward the end of World War II, American Field Service ambulance drivers in 567 Company were stationed at an embarkation camp in Pisa, Italy, awaiting movement orders. The ambulance drivers…

Item-3275-Sidney-Howard-in-Alsace-France-1916.-Photographer-unknown
AFS Archives, Archival Spotlight, History

Playwright and AFS Driver Sidney Howard, 1916

This photograph of famous playwright and screenwriter Sidney Coe Howard (1891-1939) was taken in France during World War I, and was found in John C. B. Moore’s wartime scrapbook.  Howard…

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AFS Archives, Archival Spotlight, History

President John F. Kennedy’s Speech to AFS Students, 1963

This photograph shows President John F. Kennedy walking to the microphone before addressing AFS students at the White House in July 1961.  Kennedy spoke to AFS students in Washington, D.C.…

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