Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's Juilly Hospital Journals, 1914

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875-1942) was a sculptor, art patron, writer, and the founder of the Whitney Museum of Art. She began keeping diaries as a child, and maintained the habit into her adulthood. During the First World War, Whitney was involved with numerous war relief activities, most notably establishing and supporting a hospital in Juilly, France. She made several trips to France during the war, and kept these journal during that time. This, and her other diaries, and extensive material which documents her life and career are fully digitized and available through the Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Papers on the Archives of American Art website.