Viera Hospital (Dr. Nutter's hospital) Tegucigalpa, Honduras – Vintage Print
![Viera Hospital (Dr. Nutter's hospital) Tegucigalpa, Honduras, [between 1940 and 1945?] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/fb/fb34781eaa81-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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This rare historic photograph captures Viera Hospital (Dr. Nutter's hospital) Tegucigalpa, Honduras in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Viera Hospital (Dr. Nutter's hospital) Tegucigalpa, Honduras
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The caption identifies this view as Viera Hospital in Tegucigalpa, a building also known locally as Dr. Nutter's hospital, which points to a facility tied closely to one physician rather than to a government institution. Hospitals in Honduras during this period were often founded and run by individual doctors, so a name taken from the doctor was not unusual. The date on the caption card is only a tentative estimate of 1940 to 1945, so the photograph is best read as a glimpse of private medical care in wartime Central America rather than a firmly dated record.
| Created / published | [between 1940 and 1945?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 992 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-108256 |
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