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Title
Interior of a Paris hospital destroyed by German gunfire, ca.1915
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1915
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of the interior of a Paris hospital destroyed by German gunfire, ca.1915. The room pictured is a large rectangular room with high ceilings and tall, narrow windows all around. The white metal hospital beds have been twisted and mangled by the exploding shells. A mattress is on the floor at center. Fine debris covers the floor at right. There is a woman in a white nurse's uniform standing at left and looking towards the camera. A set of empty white shelves is in the foreground at left.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photoprints, b&w
13 x 18 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12807
USC-1-1-1-12959 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-11631
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12807
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-11631.jpg
Subject
U.S. History--World War I--American Expeditionary Force
War
Military
World War, 1914-1918
Hospitals
Medical facilities
Time Period
circa 1915
Place
France
Paris
Source
1-233- [Microfiche number]
11631 [Accession number]
CHS-11631 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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