A Tenth Mountain Division medical team of five bandages the knee and hand of a woman wearing a checked jacket, wool skirt, wool socks and hiking boots. They work in an improvised operating room; instruments are laid out on a packing crate, and the operating table is a stretcher also suspended between packing crates. One team member holds a guaze bandage and scissors. One cuts the gauze of the woman's hand bandage as another holds her hand in place. Another bandages her ; knee while another holds her leg in place. A hanging lamp provides illumination and a row of lockers lines the wall behind them.
Date
[1945]
Notes
Negative is silvering out.; Number 11 hand written on original negative envelope.; Photograph taken for Blizzard.; Title supplied by cataloger.; R7002001353
Physical Description
1 photonegative ; 10 x 12 cm. (3 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.)
Is Part Of
10th Mountain Division Resource Center Collection.; 10th Mountain Division Resource Center Collection. Henry Moscow collection.
Subject
Hospitals--Italy--1940-1950.; Medical aspects of war--1940-1950.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
Rights
Restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
