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Accession 2006-012
ca. 1917
Digital photograph of two boxes of photographic glass negatives in the original printed cardboard boxes. The French manufaturers name and the method of processing can be read on the box lids. Hand written labels identifying the images as photographs of Base Hospital 46 can also be read.
Two sets of glass negatives, made with silver bromide. The images are of a military hospital and hospital staff, taken somewhere in France during World War I. Handwriting on affixed labels indicates that the hospital is Base Hospital #46, the UOMS-organized contigent of volunteer medical personnel. The plates are housed in the original printed cardboard boxes, which measure 13 cm x 18 cm. The boxes identify the plate manufacturer as J. Jougla of Lumiere & Jougla. The photographic method is identified as "plaques a mode bromure dargent", or silver bromide plates. One of the plates is broken. The set was donated by Otis B. Wight, M.D., who served with the 46th and wrote a short history of its activities. Removed from Medical Museum Collection in 2006.

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