Signed Photographic Portrait of Marie Van Vorst

Gelatin silver oval photograph measuring 3" x 5" tipped into unprinted, folded cardstock mat. The image depicts Van Vorst standing, outdoors dressed in an American Ambulance Services uniform. Inscribed by her on the mat beneath the image: "Marie Van Vorst. American Ambulance Services Paris 1915-14. Auxiliary Nurse." Folded cardstock mat has faint horizontal crease at top and bottom edges; the photograph has a two closed edge tears, and cracking to the image (without loss), else very good. Van Vorst, author and social reformer published in 1903, with her sister-in-law, *The Woman Who Toils: Being the Experiences of Two Ladies as Factory Girls* describing the difficult working conditions faced by working class women. In addition to writing more than fifteen novels, she also wrote 'War Letters of an American Woman' (1916) about her year spent, in France, with the American Ambulance Service [see *Notable American Women,* Vol. III, p. 514].