Informal group portrait of medical staff and patients in a hospital ward, possibly in Bulawayo, ...

Accession Number P04544.011
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Date made c 1900
Conflict South Africa, 1899-1902 (Boer War)
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Informal group portrait of medical staff and patients in a hospital ward, possibly in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia [now Zimbabwe]. The ward is decorated with flowers in jars of water, pretty Japanese fans and framed portraits in an attempt to brighten up the primitive conditions as indicated by the bare earth floor.

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