Ces anges des champs de bataille
- Collection:
- Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
- Contributor(s):
- Zwerdling, Michael, former owner Saint-Just (Firm), publisher.
- Publication:
- [Paris?] : [Saint-Just], [1914?]
- Language(s):
- French
- Format:
- Still image
- Subject(s):
- Nurses Nuns Military Nursing World War I France
- Genre(s):
- Postcards
- Abstract:
- This is a hand-tinted French real photo studio postcard. It depicts a French nun, who is also a nurse, leaving a military hospital. She is dressed in a long gray dress, tied at the waist, with a large white collar, and long gray veil. She carries her belongings tied up in a cloth in her right hand. Her left hand holds a handkerchief and she looks sadly downward. A French soldier in blue and red uniform, is saluting her. The postcard refers to the fact that at the start of World War I military authorities believed it inapproriate for religious nursing orders to serve at military field hospitals.
- 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:
- 101707419 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101707419