Operation Room, hosp. Train – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Operation Room, hosp. Train, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Operation Room, hosp. Train
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Inside a railway car fitted out for surgery, this view shows an operating room on a hospital train, a rolling clinic built to carry wounded men away from the front or from crowded receiving stations. Hospital trains were used extensively in the First World War, when rail was the fastest way to move casualties to base hospitals where they could get proper care. The George Grantham Bain Collection, from the Bain News Service, is best known for news pictures from the 1910s, and this glass negative belongs to that body of work. The record gives no firm date, so the exact trip or unit is unknown, but the compact layout of the room, with its equipment packed into a moving car, is worth studying for how medical care was adapted to the railway.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,000 × 4,124 px · prints to 10 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-29995 |
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