First steps to usefulness – Antique 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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First steps to usefulness
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Bedside and ward occupations were the focus of this 1919 exhibit poster, produced to show how the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men and the Red Cross Institute for the Blind approached rehabilitation for soldiers wounded in the First World War. Its caption argues that keeping injured men busy with handwork and simple crafts diverted them from brooding about their injuries and futures, and that such occupation could speed recovery alongside medical treatment. The poster is a halftone reproduction, a mass-printed format that let exhibit organizers circulate the message widely at a time when occupational therapy was becoming a recognized part of military hospital care.
| Created / published | 1919 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print (poster) : halftone. |
| Genre | Exhibit posters 1910-1920.War posters American 1910-1920.Halftone photomechanical prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Poster caption: Bedside and ward occupations serve to interest wounded men and keep their minds active and off their own troubles. Occupation is also one of the best curative agents at the command of the physician, and in most cases it does much to expedite recovery. Gone are the old days when men lay for months in a hospital bed gazing at the ceiling and brooding about the future. Exhibit of the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men and the Red Cross Institute for the Blind. |
| Subjects | Institute for the Crippled and Disabled--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Medical aspects. World War, 1914-1918--Casualties. Occupational therapy--1910-1920. Handicapped persons--Education--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,762 × 4,667 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 817_First_steps_to_usefulne_1919 |
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