Making wooden prosthetic limbs during World War One, c1915-1918.
- Made:
- circa 1915-1918
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Postcard of workers making artificial limbs, c.1915-1918. Probably photographed in the limb-making workshops associated with Queen Mary's Convalescent Auxiliary Hospital, Roehampton, London. From an album of 104 postcards and a pen and ink drawing showing injured soldiers at Queen Mary's Orthopaedic Hospital, Roehampton, members of the Essex Regiment and other medical pictures, 1914-1918.
Queen Mary's was a specialised orthopaedic hospital opened in 1915 and was mainly devoted to fitting artificial limbs to the thousands of British soldiers who lost limbs during World War One, 1914-1918.
Details
- Category:
- Orthopaedics
- Object Number:
- 1999-317/3
- Materials:
- paper (fibre product)
- Measurements:
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album: 11.5748 x 8.8583 x .7874 in.
294 x 225 x 20 mm