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Summary
Title and note information from Red Cross caption card.
Group title: Hospital, Eng.
Data: Southern Mt N.W. Gulf Northern Div. 11/1918.
Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
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american red cross
england
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footprints
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shell shock treatment
mossley hill
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world war i
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ww1
medical care
hospitals
library of congress
Date
01/01/1918
Location
england
Source
Library of Congress
Link
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