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World War I Era Disability Photos

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Artificial limb shop

Reference link: //www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ggbain.27999/

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Creator(s): Bain News Service, publisher Date Created/Published: [no date recorded on caption card]

Work on artificial leg

Reference link: //www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ggbain.27998/

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Creator(s): Bain News Service, publisher Date Created/Published: [no date recorded on caption card]

One-armed mech. draftsman

Reference link: //www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ggbain.27995/

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Creator(s): Bain News Service, publisher Date Created/Published: [no date recorded on caption card]

Cripples making artificial limbs

Reference link: //www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ggbain.27994/

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Creator(s): Bain News Service, publisher Date Created/Published: [no date recorded on caption card]

Covering artificial leg

Reference link: //www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ggbain.28000/

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Creator(s): Bain News Service, publisher Date Created/Published: [no date recorded on caption card]

[An artificial limb recipient ice-skating near the Washington Monument. Photograph commissioned by the J.E. Hanger artificial limb company]

Reference link: https://www.loc.gov/resource/bellcm.25186/

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Contributor Names: C.M. Bell (Firm : Washington, D.C.), photographer Created / Published: [between 1873 and ca. 1916] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Telegraph lesson - crippled soldiers

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2006003709/

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Creator(s): Bain News Service, publisher
Date Created/Published: [no date recorded on caption card]
Call Number: LC-B2- 4839-13 [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Notes: Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Maimed German at work

Reference link: https://www.loc.gov/item/ggb2006000764/

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Summary: Photograph shows a German disabled soldier with a prosthetic arm working as a carpenter in a workshop in Hindenburg's house at Konigsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia) during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015 and similar image on the Imperial War Museums website: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205331713 External)
Contributor Names: Bain News Service, publisher
Created / Published: [between ca. 1915 and 1918]
Subject Headings: -  World War, 1914-1918.
Notes: -  Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
-  Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
-  General information about the Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ggbain 25350 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.25350

[Four disabled veterans working in reconstruction section, Walter Reed Hospital]

Reference link: https://www.loc.gov/item/92521809/

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Created / Published: [between 1909 and 1920]
Subject Headings: -  Walter Reed Army Hospital (Washington, D.C.)--People--1900-1920
-  Disabled veterans--American--1900-1920
-  Handicraft--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1920
Notes: -  National Photo Company Collection.
-  No. L.W.S. #38.
Digital Id: cph 3c06311 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c06311

Star & Garter Home for totally disabled soldiers and sailors / B.P. ; WHS [monogram].

Reference link: https://www.loc.gov/item/2003675266/

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Summary: Poster showing a robed allegorical figure of womanhood supporting an injured man as she helps him through a doorway, captioned, "Haven."
Created / Published: [S.l. : s.n., 1915]
Subject Headings: -  World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--Great Britain
-  World War, 1914-1918--Women--Great Britain
-  War bonds & funds--England--1910-1920
Notes: -  Text continues: You can never repay these utterly broken men. But you can show your gratitude by helping to build this Home, where they will be tenderly cared for during the rest of their lives. Let every woman send what she can to-day to the Lady Cowdray, Hon. Treasurer, The British Women's Hospital Fund, 21 Old Bond Street, W.
-  Patrons: H.M. the Queen & H.M. Queen Alexandra.
-  Reproduced by permission of the Proprietors from Mr. Punch's appeal for the Star & Garter Fund.
-  Title from item.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital Id: cph 3g11160 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g11160