Early Ford Ambulances and Ford Motor Company employees in the courtyard of the Lycée Pasteur, American Ambulance Hospital | Archives of the American Field Service and AFS Intercultural Programs

Early Ford Ambulances and Ford Motor Company employees in the courtyard of the Lycée Pasteur, American Ambulance Hospital

1914 September

The American Hospital of Paris, established before the outbreak of war in 1914, used the unfinished Lycée Pasteur as their military hospital (referred to as their “Ambulance”) to accommodate a larger number of patients during the war.  The American Ambulance Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine was the original location of the organization that eventually became known as the American Field Service (AFS.)  The first American ambulances pictured here were built from packing cases mounted on Ford chassis.

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Archives of the American Field Service and AFS Intercultural Programs

American Field Service World War I Photographic Collection, 1910-1987 Series 1: Photographs and Negatives, 1910-1987 (bulk 1915-1917) Subseries 1D: American Hospital, ca. 1914-1915 Box 2 Folder 15: American Ambulance Hospital, circa 1914-1916

Photographed using a Canon EOS 5D Mark II by staff at the Internet Archive in 2013.

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