Nurse Cavell: "thrown to the swine."

Nurse Cavell: "thrown to the swine."

Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Author(s):
Raemaekers, Louis, 1869-1956, artist
Contributor(s):
Zwerdling, Michael, former owner
Brown-Robertson Co., publisher.
Publication:
N.Y. : Brown Robertson Co., [1915]
Language(s):
English
Format:
Still image
Subject(s):
Nurses
Military Nursing -- history
World War I
Swine
Cavell, Edith, 1865-1915.
Genre(s):
Postcards
Abstract:
Postcard featuring a political cartoon of the corpse of Edith Cavell surrounded by pigs wearing pickelhaubes (a spiked helmet worn in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by German military).
Copyright:
This item may be under copyright protection; contact the copyright owner for permission before re-use.
Extent:
1 postcard : 14 x 9 cm
Provenance:
Purchase; Michael Zwerdling; 2004; 04-22.
Technique:
black and white
NLM Unique ID:
101677484 (See catalog record)
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101677484