Hanoi - Institute of Radium – Vintage Print
![Hanoi - Institute of Radium, [1950?] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a9/a9cb7df1460a-L.webp)
(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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Hanoi - Institute of Radium
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The picture shows the Institute of Radium in Hanoi, a facility whose name points to radium therapy, a method of treating cancer with radioactive material. Radium became a medical tool soon after Marie and Pierre Curie isolated it in the late 1890s, and institutes like this one spread through Europe and its colonies over the following decades. The photograph is dated only approximately to around 1950, a period when Vietnam was embroiled in the First Indochina War, so it captures a medical site working under difficult conditions. The record offers few details about the building or its staff, so the image is best read as a glimpse of early radiation medicine in Southeast Asia.
| Created / published | [1950?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Radiation; Cancer--Treatment; Hospitals; Geogr. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,167 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-142719 |
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