World War I; World War, 1914-1918; Horses; Camp MacCarthur; United States. Army; United States. Army Nurse Corps.;
The Memories from Camp MacArthur, Waco, TX Scrapbook was created by Nurse Linda Cornelia Baker who provided care for the soldiers at the base hospital and the Red Cross Convalescent House. Ms. Baker, a descendant of one of the oldest families in Chicopee, was born on October 11, 1883. She lived her entire life in the Willimansett section of Chicopee, with the exception of her training to become a nurse, and the time she spent at Camp MacArthur. After World War I, Ms. Baker returned to Chicopee where she served her community as a “visiting nurse” specializing in communicable diseases with the Chicopee Board of Health until her retirement in 1953. She died on April 8, 1982 at the age of 98. Photographs in the collection cover the period of time she spent at Camp MacArthur, from March 1918 through the end of World War I.