Fatima, Portugal: curativos aos peregrinos = Soins aux pèlerins = Dressing the wounds of the pilgrims = Tratando de sus heridas
- Collection:
- Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
- Alternate Title(s):
- Curativos aos peregrinos, Soins aux pèlerins, Dressing the wounds of the pilgrims, and Tratando de sus heridas
- Author(s):
- Rego, Teófilo, 1914-1993, photographer
- Contributor(s):
- Zwerdling, Michael, former owner
- Publication:
- [Portugal] : [publisher not identified], [between 1950 and 1970?]
- Language(s):
- Portuguese French English Spanish
- Format:
- Still image
- Subject(s):
- Nurses Catholicism Travel Walking -- injuries Wounds and Injuries -- therapy Portugal
- Genre(s):
- Postcard
- Abstract:
- Color postcard featuring a photograph of nurses washing the feet of religious pilgrims at Fatima, Portugal. The pilgrims are sitting in chairs with their feet in metal basins or propped up for the nurses. The nurses are sittling on stools in front of the chairs. Some are washing their patients feet, one is putting a bandage on a woman's leg. The nurses are wearing white uniforms and veils. There is a blue star on the front of the veil. The nurses have blue armbands. Only a capital "S" is visible on the armband of the nurse in the foreground.
- Copyright:
- This item may be under copyright protection; contact the copyright owner for permission before re-use.
- Extent:
- 1 postcard : 10 x 15 cm
- Provenance:
- Purchase; Michael Zwerdling; 2004; 04-22.
- Technique:
- color
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101732847 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101732847