Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0138Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of the interior of a hospital, a nurse tending to three patients, one heavily bandaged. Above the image "W123 (Star)" is printed, below the image "V18817 Ghastly Glimpse of Wounded Belgians in Hospital, Antworp, Belgim." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company Copyrighted, Underwood & Underwood, Inc. Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
V18817
THE HORROR OF WAR - GHASTLY GLIMPSE OF WOUNDED
His head and hands swathed in bandages and more of them encircling his shoulders, this wounded Blegian is patiently waiting for his terrible wounds to heal, though he knows that his features will be disfigured and ghastly. Look at his head closely and you will see hardly an inch that is not covered with bandages. His nose, eyes and cheeks have been slashed wto ribbons by shell splinters, and even the nurse sittin gat his bedsie looks as though she were doubtful of his recovery.
Such men are those who best know the splended work that this woman and thousands of others accomplished in the hospitals. Her face looks worn with an over amount of work and there is a look in her eyse that makes you believe that the suffering which is on every side of her also weighs her down.
Beyond are two other men not as badly wounded, both of whom appear as though they had a good chance of recovery, aided by the fine care of the nurses and doctors and the sunlight that slips in through the windows of this Antwerp hospital. Think of this scene multiplied 10,000 times and you will have a more adequate conception of the human suffering brought about by the war.
Copyrigh by The Keystone View CompanyCollection
Photograph Collection