Part of PICRYL.com. Not developed or endorsed by the Library of Congress

american base hospital

american red cross

books

casualties

dartford

glass negatives

great britain

library of congress

new england

one encounters

public
2 media by topic ∙ page 1 of 1
The great variety of men whom one encounters in a big American Base Hospital is a continuous evidence of the manner in which the rank and file of the army represents the whole country. One of the patients at the Dartford Hospital, near London, is a wounded man who is always reading, and the books which he reads are enough to give a headache to an ordinary man. On this occasion when Captain Herbert Johnson of Boston visited him on a Red Cross errand, he had three books in front of him, one a work of Pure Philosophy, another a book of Sociological Ethics and a third, related to some obtuse theory of evolution. This man is a graduate of three universities

The great variety of men whom one encounters in a big American Base Ho...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: A.R.C. London. Group title: Wounded. Data: New England Div. Atlantic, Lake, Potom... More

The great variety of men whom one encounters in a big American Base Hospital is a continuous evidence of the manner in which the rank and file of the army represents the whole country. One of the patients at the Dartford Hospital, near London, is a wounded man who is always reading, and the books which he reads are enough to give a headache to an ordinary man. On this occasion when Captain Herbert Johnson of Boston visited him on a Red Cross errand, he had three books in front of him, one a work of Pure Philosophy, another a book of Sociological Ethics and a third, related to some obtuse theory of evolution. This man is a graduate of three universities

The great variety of men whom one encounters in a big American Base Ho...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: A.R.C. London. Group title: Wounded. Data: New England Div. Atlantic, Lake, Potom... More