Fatima, Portugal: curativos aos peregrinos = Soins aux pèlerins = Dressing the wounds of the pilgrims = Tratando de sus heridas

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, Dressing the wounds of the pilgrims, Soins aux pèlerins, 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)
OCLC no.:
1105261649
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101732847