Ces anges des champs de bataille

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