Beatrice MacDonald, a nurse, accompaned her employer, George E. Brewer, Jr., a prominent New York City surgeon, to serve in France. MacDonald was wounded during an air raid and lost an eye, but returned to service until the end of the war. She was commended for her work by the British and French governments, and received the Distinguished Service Cross

Women Working, 1800–1930 is a digital exploration of women's impact on the economic life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression. Working conditions, workplace regulations, home life, costs of living, commerce, recreation, health and hygiene, and social issues are among the issues documented in this online research collection. Included are digitized materials on women's role in World War I.

Hall chaired the New England Clothing Committee working with the Comité Franco-Américaine pour la Protection des Enfants de la Frontière during World War I.
Digitized scrapbooks contain records of work by Hall's committee, bills, sample patterns, reports, pictures of children, and other items; folders contain letters from Caroline R. Hill to Hall. Collection provides information on women's work and World War I.

In 1898 MA travelled to Paris, and subsequently settled there. While living in Paris, she became a close friend of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, and was a member of their social circle. In 1914 she retired to "Hilltop" ("La Creste"), her cottage in Huiry, a village on the outskirts of Paris. While at "La Creste" she published four collections of her letters: Hilltop On the Marne (1915), On the Edge of the War Zone (1917), Peak of the Load (1918), and When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1919). She also published a novel, Told In A French Garden (1916). The collection consists of four bound volumes containing a typed transcript of Aldrich's autobiography, Confessions Of A Breadwinner , which she completed in 1926. The collection includes The Burial of A Fallen Poet (call number A/A36), an edited version of Chapter V of Part Third of Confessions Of A Breadwinner ; the poet is Oscar Wilde.