Julia D.S. Snow (1891-1984), a Greenfield, Massachusetts, resident wore this Army School of Nursing dress uniform during World War I. It was used for formal occasions and traveling. In May, 1918, just over a year after the United States entered World War I, the Army School of Nursing was created to meet the need for nurses and nurse’s aides in Army hospitals.  Although the uniforms had a collar symbol of a lamp superimposed over the caduceus and had Army-regulation buttons, implying a soldiers’ status, these women remained officially civilian. By December, 1918, there were 1,578 students in the program. Julia Snow was a volunteer student nurse at the Army training school of the Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C., from 1918 to 1919, then a laboratory technician until 1921, when she returned to Greenfield.