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WW1 - 1914-1918
" Looks of War photographers "
" Regards de photographes de Guerre"
9000 photos
438 pages
BLIND SOLDIERS
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RE-EDUCATION
Blind making baskets at "The Maison Blanche"
(The White House school for the education of the mutiles)
workshop of Varrene
October 1917
Photographer : French Official
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Blind making barrels
November 1917
Photographer: Permanent Blind Relief War Fund for Soldiers and Sailors.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Blind making barrels
November 1917
Photographer: Permanent Blind Relief War Fund for Soldiers and Sailors.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Blind re-education
November 1917
Photographer: Permanent Blind Relief War Fund for Soldiers and Sailors
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Reading and writing are not lost arts to blinded men
Exhibit poster showing military personnel reading Braille and using typewriters.
1919
- Poster caption: At the Military Hospital for Blinded Men at Baltimore, this soldier is learning to substitute touch for sight in the process of reading.
The letters are formed by dots raised in the surface of the paper.
The sailor is writing in raised characters by the aid of a simple machine.
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- Poster caption: A blinded man can learn in a short time to operate, without making mistakes, the regular standard typewriter.
He is thus able again to correspond with his mother, wife, sweetheart, or friends.
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- Exhibit of the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men and the Red Cross Institute for the Blind.
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- Exhibited: "Echoes of the Great War : American Experiences of WW I" in the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.,
May 2018 - January 2019.
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American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Saying Goodbye. Madame Ladd, Blind mutile and his comrade
ca. 1917 or 1918
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
The gamekeeper's house where the blind soldiers will be housed
between 1914 and 1920
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND. SOLDIERS AT THE INSTITUTE
1918
Harris & Ewing, photographer
Harris & Ewing photograph collection (Library of Congress)
INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND. SOLDIERS AT THE INSTITUTE
1918
Harris & Ewing, photographer
Harris & Ewing photograph collection (Library of Congress)
What can the blinded man do in the world of commerce and industry
Exhibit poster showing two scenes in which blind men perform mechanical tasks in workshops.
1919
(Library of Congress)
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- Poster captions: A blinded workman, without special training, operating a drill press in a large electrical works ;
Sightless worker making packing cases for shipment of mechanical products - a job in which eyesight might well be expected as a requisite.
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- Exhibit of the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men and the Red Cross Institute for the Blind.
Switchboard operating. In civilian life blind and partly blind men are operating small switchboards and some of the men from Evergreen may do the same.
The Red Cross institute for the blind, Evergreen, Baltimore, Md.
January 1919
Photographer: ARC. Hughes Co., Baltimore
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Making brushes. A blind soldier making and cutting brushes
with aid of tool especially designed by M. Lotz Maunory
Reeducational School for Blind soldiers
4 March 1918
Mr. Winans Editorial Service, June 25 Nation's Business refused, Mr. Holda. 12/15/18
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Paris
Nicholas, a blind and amputated soldier, knitting at the A.B.F.B.
Permanent blind relief War Fund's American Knitting School, 35 Boulevard du Chateau, Neuilly, Paris
ca. 1918
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Paris
Officers recuperating at Hospital #3. The man in the lead is blind
Photographer : Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940,
First attempts at exercise convalescent American officers
in the garden of American military Hospital No. 3, Rue de Chevreuse Paris.
This was before the war the home of a club for American women Art students established
by Mrs. Whitelan Reid.
It has now been converted by the ARC into a hospital for American officers
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
A blind mutile waiting to try on his mask at the American Red Cross studio
April 1918
Photographer : ARC Commission to France.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
French soldier, blinded and mutilated,
before adjusting the mask made for him by Mrs. Ladd of the American Red Cross
17 October 1918
Photographer: Joseph A. Collin
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Pour le Foyer du Soldat Aveugle
On behalf of the blind soldier's home
A blind soldier holding a small girl.
Lévy-Dhurmer, Lucien, 1865-1953, artist
Paris : Imp. L. Marotte, [1917]
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Tuberculosis soldier at La Rochefoucauld Barracks, blind in one eye,
who is an excellent music hall artist and who performed at entertainment given at the barracks
between 1917 and 1920
Photographer: Red Cross Headquarters in Paris
Dancing.
No form of recreation is more generally enjoyed by the blind
than the dances which are held at regular intervals
January 1919
Photographer: ARC.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Paris
Neuilly, (Seine) France.
The workroom at Benevole Hospital.
The British Permanent Blind War Relief Fund.
12 March 1919
Photographer: [George E.] Marshall.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
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The picture shows a battery of hand knitting machines for larger garments.
This school is for the blind and amputated blind soldiers.
They use these machines for instruction and for commercial production.
The student at the front machine has neither his sight nor his arms, and he is being taught to knit.
Mons, Brieux, the famous writer, is one of the patrons of this worthy work, which is situated at 23 bis & 25 Boulevard Victor Hugo, Neuilly
Gesellige Vereinigung Münchner Künstler e.v. Weihnachts Ausstellung zu gunsten der Kriegsinvaliden, für sorge ins besonders Erblindeter
Poster shows a blind soldier being led by a soldier with his arm in a sling.
Text announces a Christmas exhibit to benefit war invalids, particularly the blind.
The exhibit is sponsored by the Social Society of Munich Artists; exhibit location and times are given.
München : Dr. C. Wolf u. Sohn, 1917.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington