Taking away the wounded in motor ambulance (Somme) – Antique 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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A window into the past: Taking away the wounded in motor ambulance (Somme), preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Taking away the wounded in motor ambulance (Somme)
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Few pictures in this gallery's automobile group show a vehicle doing such urgent work. The stereograph shows wounded men being loaded into a motor ambulance on the Somme, the region of northern France where the British and French armies fought a long and costly offensive in 1916. Keystone View Company of Meadville, Pennsylvania, issued stereo cards like this around 1918, when American audiences were following the war closely and wanted to see the front for themselves. The card's pairing of a vehicle with casualty evacuation shows how motor transport had begun to transform battlefield medicine.
| Created / published | Meadville, Pa. : Keystone View Co., c1918. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1910-1920.Stereographs 1910-1920. |
| Notes | J230032 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 18657. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Medical aspects--France--Somme. Ambulances--France--Somme--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,241 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-191209 |
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