Bremer Lazarettzüge photograph album

Content Description

This collection contains a World War I German Red Cross hospital train photograph album. The floral cloth-covered album has an appliqued Red Cross emblem with 'Bremer Lazarettzüge,' which translates to Bremen Hospital Train, impressed on the cover. The album has an accordion-folded sheet the length of ten pages, containing the title page, a colored blueprint of the layout of the train, and a hand-written description of the train. Eleven original photographs follow, nine of which show interior views and furnishings of the train. Each picture has a caption in German, including the hospital cars (Krankenwagen), a hospital car specifically for officers (Offiziers-Krakenwagen), a bandaging car (Verbandswagen), the kitchen (Küche), an administration and pharmacy car (Operations-u. Apothekenwagen), the nurses' dining room für Schwestern), a doctor's room (Arztzimmer), and two exterior views, one with the Lloyd factory in the background, and one with the Lloyd liner "Bremen. The original owner, Chief Medical Officer of Auxiliary Hospital Train 23 is scratched out and unreadable.

Acquisition Type

Purchase

Provenance

Purchased from Bernett Rare Books, 25 March 2024.

Language of Description

English

Restrictions Apply

Yes

Access Restrictions

This collection contains photographs; gloves must be worn to handle this material.

Use Restrictions

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