AFS World War I Headquarters, 1917
In July 1916 the American Ambulance Field Service (which would later be known as the “American Field Service,” or “AFS”)…
Author: Nicole Milano
Head Archivist and Historical Publications Editor, AFS Intercultural Programs
Photographs in the AFS Archives: Friends of France
Friends of France: The Field Service of the American Ambulance Described by its Members (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1916)…
Animator and Business Magnate Walt Disney, circa 1962-1963
Fifty years ago on September 14, 1964, Walt Disney received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian recognition.…
French Officers with American Doctors and Nurses, 1915
This photograph depicts recovering French officers with American doctors and nurses in one of the rooms at the American Ambulance…
Americans Abroad Participants in Germany, July 1954
This photograph features the arrival of 28 AFS Americans Abroad Summer Program Participants in Berlin-Lichterfelde, Germany in July 1954. Although…
A. Piatt Andrew and Red Roof, 1910
This photograph features A. Piatt Andrew at his home in Gloucester, Massachusetts, before World War I began. Prior to founding…
Thousands of Islands, 1958
The AFS program in Indonesia started in 1956 when Wartomo Dwijoyuwono, together with Mohammad Diponegoro and Ibrahim Kadir were invited…
Gas Masks, 1917
The American Field Service (AFS) ambulance and camion drivers were non-combatants in World War I, since their primary tasks involved…
Down the Aisle, 1993
AFS Returnee Nanci Leitch (USA to ESP, 1976-1977), is escorted to the chapel by her host father Vicente Saitua (left)…
Letter Illustration, 1944
World War II Driver James Henry Brewster volunteered as an ambulance driver with the American Field Service (AFS) between 1943…