NLM Digital Collections

[Two nurses tending a wounded patient]

Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Contributor(s):
Zwerdling, Michael, former owner
Publication:
[Turkey?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1900 and 1920?]
Format:
Still image
Subject(s):
Nurses
Nursing Care
Red Cross
Ottoman Empire
Osmanlı Hilâl-i Ahmer Cemiyeti.
Genre(s):
Postcards
Abstract:
Postcard featuring a painting of two nurses wearing Red Crescent arm bands treating a wounded male patient. He is lying in a metal bed with his head bandaged. Underneath the image is a Red Crescent symbol with Ottoman Turkish calligraphy around it and a banner above it.
Copyright:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
Extent:
1 postcard : 14 x 9 cm
Provenance:
Purchase ; Michael Zwerdling ; 2004 ; 04-22.
Technique:
color
NLM Unique ID:
101670860 (See catalog record)
NLM Image ID:
D04804
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101670860