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WW1 - 1914-1918
" Looks of War photographers "
" Regards de photographes de Guerre"
9000 photos
438 pages
CITIES and VILLAGES
ENJOYMENTS and PAINS
BORDEAUX
page 2
Bordeaux
Saint Julien - Béchevelle
An ideal place to get well is the Chateau Beycheville, (Saint Julien Beychevelle ) near Bordeaux.
The house is surrounded by a large park with magnificent trees.
It was loaned to the American Red Cross which has equipped it as a hospital
for convalescent officers.
A group of patients are seen on the terrace
30 Oct. 1918
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Saint Julien - Béchevelle
Lieut. John Guy Owsley of the Home Service of the American Red Cross writing a letter home
for an American sailor in the American Red Cross Naval Hospital at Beaucaillou,
(Saint Julien Beychevelle) near Bordeaux
30 Oct. 1918
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Saint Julien - Béchevelle
In the Chateau Beaucaillou, (Saint Julien Beychevelle ) near Bordeaux,
the American Red Cross has installed a Naval hospital.
The picture shows a scene in one of the wards with nurse in attendance on an American sailor
31 Oct. 1918
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
In the American Red Cross Home Service Office at Base Hospital No. 6,
near Bordeaux.
The picture shows two methods of work. Mrs. Hurd, (in the foreground) is having a confidential conversation with an individual soldier about something he wants straightened out at home,
and Mrs. Van Kuren (in the background) is interviewing a group, getting information
and distributing comforts
30 October 1918
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Mrs. Van Kuren, American Red Cross Representative
in the recreation hut at Base Hospital No. 6, near Bordeaux is showing
a wounded American soldier a telegram just received telling him that all is right at home.
One of his friends here, in bed for several months had no news from home for months.
Mrs. Van Kuren cabled home for him, and telegraphed to Tours,
secured his mail and cheered him up with a batch of 19 letters.
It will help his recovery materially
October 1918
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Miss Mabel De Coney of Piedmont, California,
with convalescent officers the garden of the Chateau near Bordeaux
24 February 1919
Photographer : ARC.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
A few of the Staff of the American Red Cross, outside of Headquarters at Bordeaux, France,
which is the main office for the Southern Zone
December 1918.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Bassens
Dr. C.A. Washburn, of Springfield, Mass., Dr. Grant, of Providence, R.I., and Mrs. Harold Balce,
all of the American Red Cross, on the gangway of an American Transport at Bassens Dock, Bordeaux
December 1918.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
French brides of American soldiers, awaiting sailing accomodations at Bordeaux, France,
where they are the guests of the American Red Cross
9 July 1919
Photographer : ARC.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Gerard Py. Address: 46 Bis, Rue du Temps Passé, Bordeaux,
protege of: 6th Heavy Artillery, Mobile Ordu. Repair Shop, O & T.C. #2, T.A., A.P.O. 755,
American Expeditionary Forces
10 March 1919.
Photographer : Henri A. Coles
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Grand festival des alliés. Kermesse de l'enfance . . .
au profit de l'école de rééducation professionnelle des mutilés de guerre de Bordeaux
Country fair for the children to benefit the school for the rehabilitation of the veterans of Bordeaux.
A woman nursing her baby.
Two disabled veterans, one weaving a basket, the other is holding a pickax.
Guindet, A., artist
Woodward & Lothrop, donor
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C