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Photo, Print, Drawing Making a belt. Patient at the U.S. Naval Hospital Chelsea, Mass. making a blet [belt] by knotting cords. The American Red Cross is furnishing this hospital with aides for work in occupational therapy and are there by greatly assisting the medical staff by keeping the boys happy and contented / Lewis Hine.

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About this Item

Title

  • Making a belt. Patient at the U.S. Naval Hospital Chelsea, Mass. making a blet [belt] by knotting cords. The American Red Cross is furnishing this hospital with aides for work in occupational therapy and are there by greatly assisting the medical staff by keeping the boys happy and contented / Lewis Hine.

Summary

  • Photograph shows a full-length portrait of an unidentified patient, a World War I veteran, sitting on a chair by a window, knotting string to make a belt during occupational therapy at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Chelsea, Massachusetts.

Names

  • Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : American Red Cross, 1920 June.

Headings

  • -  American National Red Cross--Washington (D.C.)--1920
  • -  United States Marine Hospital at Boston--1920
  • -  Military hospitals--Massachusetts--Chelsea--1920
  • -  War casualties--Massachusetts--Chelsea--1920
  • -  Belts (Clothing)--Massachusetts--Chelsea--1920
  • -  Occupational therapy--Massachusetts--Chelsea--1920
  • -  Handicraft--Massachusetts--Chelsea--1920
  • -  Medical aspects of war--1920
  • -  World War, 1914-1918--Casualties
  • -  United States--Massachusetts--Chelsea

Format Headings

  • Gelatin silver prints--1920.

Genre

  • Gelatin silver prints--1920

Notes

  • -  Caption label from exhibit "World War I ...": Lewis Hine Photographs Veteran Rehabilitation. Lewis Hine, while working for the American Red Cross, created this beautifully-composed photograph that shows a patient making a knotted-cord belt at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Chelsea, Massachusetts. After the war, the American Red Cross continued to provide support services that included psychiatric care and rehabilitation for disabled veterans.
  • -  Title transcribed from item.
  • -  Group title: Reconstruction. Rehabilitation. (Hospital Service) U.S. (260).
  • -  Inscribed on lower left corner of photo: RC-1481.
  • -  Printed at top of mount: American Red Cross Washington, D.C.
  • -  Typed on verso: No. RC-1481.
  • -  Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952 (PR 06 CN 089).
  • -  Exhibited: "World War I : American Artists View the Great War" in the Graphic Arts Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., October 2016 - May 2017.

Medium

  • 1 photograph mounted on board : gelatin silver print ; sheet 16.4 x 10.7 cm, on mount 30.4 x 23.5 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Unprocessed in PR 06 CN 087 [item] [P&P]

Repository

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016649189

Reproduction Number

  • LC-DIG-ppmsca-50015 (digital file from original item, recto) LC-DIG-ppmsca-50016 (digital file from original item, verso)

Rights Advisory

Access Advisory

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  • Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "American National Red Cross photograph collection," https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/res.717.anrc
  • Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-50015 (digital file from original item, recto) LC-DIG-ppmsca-50016 (digital file from original item, verso)
  • Call Number: Unprocessed in PR 06 CN 087 [item] [P&P]
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Chicago citation style:

Hine, Lewis Wickes, photographer. Making a belt. Patient at the U.S. Naval Hospital Chelsea, Mass. making a blet belt by knotting cords. The American Red Cross is furnishing this hospital with aides for work in occupational therapy and are there by greatly assisting the medical staff by keeping the boys happy and contented / Lewis Hine. Massachusetts United States Chelsea, 1920. Washington, D.C.: American Red Cross, June. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016649189/.

APA citation style:

Hine, L. W., photographer. (1920) Making a belt. Patient at the U.S. Naval Hospital Chelsea, Mass. making a blet belt by knotting cords. The American Red Cross is furnishing this hospital with aides for work in occupational therapy and are there by greatly assisting the medical staff by keeping the boys happy and contented / Lewis Hine. Massachusetts United States Chelsea, 1920. Washington, D.C.: American Red Cross, June. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2016649189/.

MLA citation style:

Hine, Lewis Wickes, photographer. Making a belt. Patient at the U.S. Naval Hospital Chelsea, Mass. making a blet belt by knotting cords. The American Red Cross is furnishing this hospital with aides for work in occupational therapy and are there by greatly assisting the medical staff by keeping the boys happy and contented / Lewis Hine. Washington, D.C.: American Red Cross, June. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2016649189/>.