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[American Red Cross ambulances at Italian Front: view taken from top of hospital] – Vintage Print

[American Red Cross ambulances at Italian Front: view taken from top of hospital], [beteween 1914 and 1918] — historic photograph
[American Red Cross ambulances at Italian Front: view taken from top of hospital], [beteween 1914 and 1918]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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: [American Red Cross ambulances at Italian Front: view taken from top of hospital], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[American Red Cross ambulances at Italian Front: view taken from top of hospital]

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A view looking down from the roof of a hospital shows a line of American Red Cross ambulances parked on the Italian Front, a vantage that lets the viewer see how the vehicles were arranged around the medical station. Italy joined the war against Austria-Hungary in May 1915, and the front in the Alps and along the Isonzo River became a grinding, mountainous theater of trench warfare and heavy casualties. American relief organizations sent ambulances and staff to support Italian medical services during these years. The record's date range, 1914 to 1918, comes from an unverified caption card, so the exact moment is uncertain.

Created / published[beteween 1914 and 1918]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsThis record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: WWI--Italy; Red Cross; Ambulances.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,234 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-156156

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