Vaccination -- Valcartier Camp, Canada – Vintage Print
(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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Vaccination -- Valcartier Camp, Canada
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A glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection shows a vaccination at Valcartier Camp, the training ground north of Quebec City that Canada established in 1914 to prepare its First World War recruits. Troops were routinely inoculated against diseases such as typhoid before going overseas, since infections spread quickly through crowded tent lines. The record gives no date, and its title comes from caption information the Bain News Service applied without verification, so the exact moment is uncertain. Even so, the scene points to the quiet medical work that kept the expanding army fit for service.
| 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 four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,228 × 5,798 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-18263 |
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