Souvenir de Bruxelles
- Collection:
- Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
- Contributor(s):
- Zwerdling, Michael, former owner
- Publication:
- [Belgium?] : [publisher not identified], [1950?]
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Still image
- Subject(s):
- Nurses Radiography Sculpture Theft Belgium
- Genre(s):
- Postcard Wit and Humor
- Abstract:
- This humorous illustrated color postcard depicts the surprise a doctor and nurse get when they x-ray a patient. The doctor, wearing a white lab coat, is operating a large x-ray machine. Behind him a nurse, wearing a dark dress and high heeled shoes and a nurse's cap, is writing notes. A man wearing brown pants and shoes is standing behind a screen. A green, transparent plastic slide shows a skeleton view of the man's chest and arms. The postcard is made so when the green slide is lifted up, it reveals a red, transparent plastic square with an image of the Manneken Pis. The Manneken Pis, a well-known symbol of Brussels, is a 17th century sculpture of a little boy urinating into a fountain.
- Copyright:
- This item may be under copyright protection; contact the copyright owner for permission before re-use.
- Extent:
- 1 postcard : 9 x 15 cm
- Provenance:
- Purchase; Michael Zwerdling; 2004; 04-22.
- Technique:
- color
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101746582 (See catalog record)
- OCLC no.:
- 1282339649
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101746582