Martinique: Hospice du Saint-Esprit : salle d'incurables

Martinique: Hospice du Saint-Esprit : salle d'incurables

Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Alternate Title(s):
Hospice du Saint-Esprit
Contributor(s):
Zwerdling, Michael, former owner
Sœurs de Saint-Paul de Chartres, publisher.
Publication:
Chartres, E.-et-L. : Congrégation des Sœurs de Saint-Paul, [between 1900 and 1950?]
Language(s):
French
Format:
Still image
Subject(s):
Nurses
Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing
Hospices
Martinique
Genre(s):
Postcard
Abstract:
Postcard featuring a black and white photograph of a nurse and various incurable patients outside a building. The nurse is wearing a large, white hat, with white sleeves and a white apron. She is reaching toward the foot of a patient, which the patient is resting on a stool or low table. Some of the patients are standing and some are sitting. Some have bandages on their legs or feet, and one is holding a cane. There is a chicken walking on the ground in front of the group.
Copyright:
Copyright status must be investigated before publishing or commercial use.
Extent:
1 postcard : 9 x 14 cm
Provenance:
Purchase; Michael Zwerdling; 2004; 04-22.
Technique:
black and white
NLM Unique ID:
101626634 (See catalog record)
NLM Image ID:
D05546
OCLC no.:
874093262
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101626634