Picking up the severely wounded from among the dead: battlefield scene, France
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Underwood & Underwood
American, 1880–1931
Picking up the severely wounded from among the dead: battlefield scene, France
ca. 1916
Gelatin silver print
Each Image: 8 x 7.6 cm (3 1/8 x 3 in.)
Mount: 8.7 x 17.8 cm (3 7/16 x 7 in.)
Gift of Donald K. Weber, 2011
2010.1013.0007
Inscriptions recto (printed in black): European Publishers / Underwood & Underwood (London, Ltd.) /
Underwood & Underwood / New York & Ottawa, Kas. / SUN SCUPTURE / TRADE MARK / Works, Arlington, N.Y. /
12019-Picking up the severely wounded from among the dead / battlefield scene. France. © Underwood & Underwood. U-184896
verso (printed in black): 12019 Rescuing the Wounded from among the Dead: Battlefield Scene, France. / With the same thoughtfulness and preicison / with which an army goes over the plans for at- / tack and defense, the injured are searched fro / and sent on their way to hospitals where their / lives may be saved and their usefulness as cit- /izens may be restored. The scene that you are / looking upon is one of the details in that vast / work that the medical corps of the French / army attended to through all the terrible bat- / tles that raged on their hills and plains. / / These French soldiers have improvised a / stretcher out of a number of sticks and are / carrying a fearfully mangled French soldier / to the dressing station. He is one of those / who just escaped the death that struck down / the others that you can see scattered over the / plain. They have heaped all his equipment / on the stretcher with him, his gas mask in its / metal container, his knapsack and pack. / / In the distance more searchers are doing the / same work, sorting out the living and the dead / and salvaging the human wreckage, that some / of it might be made whole again. This is a / typical "after the battle" scene. The smoke / has cleared and a friendly fog with a slight / drizzle of rain is making the horizon indistinct. / In distance you see the silhouettes of three / other searchers.
Underwood & Underwood / New York & Ottawa, Kas. / SUN SCUPTURE / TRADE MARK / Works, Arlington, N.Y. /
12019-Picking up the severely wounded from among the dead / battlefield scene. France. © Underwood & Underwood. U-184896
verso (printed in black): 12019 Rescuing the Wounded from among the Dead: Battlefield Scene, France. / With the same thoughtfulness and preicison / with which an army goes over the plans for at- / tack and defense, the injured are searched fro / and sent on their way to hospitals where their / lives may be saved and their usefulness as cit- /izens may be restored. The scene that you are / looking upon is one of the details in that vast / work that the medical corps of the French / army attended to through all the terrible bat- / tles that raged on their hills and plains. / / These French soldiers have improvised a / stretcher out of a number of sticks and are / carrying a fearfully mangled French soldier / to the dressing station. He is one of those / who just escaped the death that struck down / the others that you can see scattered over the / plain. They have heaped all his equipment / on the stretcher with him, his gas mask in its / metal container, his knapsack and pack. / / In the distance more searchers are doing the / same work, sorting out the living and the dead / and salvaging the human wreckage, that some / of it might be made whole again. This is a / typical "after the battle" scene. The smoke / has cleared and a friendly fog with a slight / drizzle of rain is making the horizon indistinct. / In distance you see the silhouettes of three / other searchers.
