Trowel used at laying of corner stone. With this trowel Miss Helen Scott Hay, representing the nurses of America, laid the first mortar on the corner stone of the nurses' memorial building at the Florence Nightingale school, Bordeaux, France

Title from Red Cross caption card.

Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.

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