The Queen of Belgium Making Stereo Photo During Pres. Wilson's Visit to Belgium
Photograph
Keystone View Company
American, 1892–1963
The Queen of Belgium Making Stereo Photo During Pres. Wilson's Visit to Belgium
ca. 1920
Gelatin silver print
Image: 7.8 x 7.6 cm (each image)
Mount: 8.7 x 17.7 cm
Gift of Donald K. Weber, 2008
2008.0347.0001
Inscriptions recto (printed in black): Keystone View Company / Manufacturers / Publishers / COPYRIGHTED / MADE IN U.S.A. /
Meadville, Pa., New York, N.Y., / chicago, Ill., London, England. /
18770 The Queen of Belgium Making Stereo Photo / During Pres. Wilson's Visit to Belgium.
verso (printed in black): 18770 / QUEEN ELIZABETH MAKING / STEREO PHOTO / In this sparse Belgian woods, standing / before us, simple and unaffected, is Elizabeth, / Queen of the Belgians, a woman who has / known what it is to be driven frmo her home, / to see her country ravished by fire and sword, / her subjects slain and driven away into servi-/tude; a woman who has been forced to seek / the hospitality of foreign nations; a woman / who has served as a simple nurse in the hos-/pitals of her country, who has alleviated the / sufferings of wounded men, softened the last / hours of the dying; a woman who has grieved / over the suffereings of her people, who has / suffered with them, ministered unto them, en- / dured with them and who has met all this with / quiet dignity worthy of her noble husband and / of the exalted station she occupies. [extended text] / Copyright by The Keystone View Company /
Meadville, Pa., New York, N.Y., / chicago, Ill., London, England. /
18770 The Queen of Belgium Making Stereo Photo / During Pres. Wilson's Visit to Belgium.
verso (printed in black): 18770 / QUEEN ELIZABETH MAKING / STEREO PHOTO / In this sparse Belgian woods, standing / before us, simple and unaffected, is Elizabeth, / Queen of the Belgians, a woman who has / known what it is to be driven frmo her home, / to see her country ravished by fire and sword, / her subjects slain and driven away into servi-/tude; a woman who has been forced to seek / the hospitality of foreign nations; a woman / who has served as a simple nurse in the hos-/pitals of her country, who has alleviated the / sufferings of wounded men, softened the last / hours of the dying; a woman who has grieved / over the suffereings of her people, who has / suffered with them, ministered unto them, en- / dured with them and who has met all this with / quiet dignity worthy of her noble husband and / of the exalted station she occupies. [extended text] / Copyright by The Keystone View Company /
