[American Army field hospital inside ruins of church. France. 1918] – Historic Print
![[American Army field hospital inside ruins of church. France. 1918], [1918] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ad/ada1210a6fb9-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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A window into the past: [American Army field hospital inside ruins of church. France. 1918], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[American Army field hospital inside ruins of church. France. 1918]
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Set up inside the broken walls of a French church, this American army field hospital shows how medical units in 1918 often worked in whatever shelter the front had left standing. Churches and other stone buildings were common choices because their thick walls offered some protection from shellfire and their open floors could hold cots and equipment. The picture was taken by an Army Signal Corps photographer, part of the official effort to document American service in the First World War. The catalog card is unverified, so the exact location and date deserve some caution, though 1918 fits the final year of the war, when American units were fighting in France in large numbers.
| Created / published | [1918] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photo by USASC 27410. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: World War I--United States; World War I--Medical; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,216 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-128540 |
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