Good use of time in hospital – 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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Good use of time in hospital. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Here a soldier at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington bends over a lesson in engraving, a detail that sets this halftone poster apart from the many wartime images of troops in uniform. The caption explains the point of the scene: time spent recovering from injury could be turned into training, whether a man was expected to leave the hospital cured or was permanently disabled. The poster promoted the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men and the Red Cross Institute for the Blind, which offered such instruction to veterans of the First World War, and its 1919 date places it just after the armistice, when thousands of wounded men were returning home and needed new trades.
| 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: The period of treatment in hospital can be put to good use by men who will be discharged cured as well as by men who will be permanently disabled. This soldier at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington is enjoying instruction in the elements of engraving. 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. Disabled veterans--1910-1920. Printmaking--1910-1920. Handicapped persons--Education--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,752 × 4,662 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 701_Good_use_of_time_in_hos_1919 |
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