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The nurse portrayed as healing angel, cradles a wounded Italian soldier, ca. 1916

National Library of Medicine

Back of postcard has section for handwritten note.
  • A White female angel kissing the forehead of a White man holding a rifle and Italian flag.

  • Back of postcard has section for handwritten note.

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    Cartolina Postale
    Conforto per i soldati malati e feriti di passaggio nelle stazioni ferroviarie Comitato di Torino
    G. Carpanetto: "Per la Patria" Omaggio ai valorosi feriti in guerra
    Lit. Doyen di I. Simondetti-Torino
    Proprieta riservata – Edizione non in vendita
    [Handwriting] Nano dell' [illegible] Alessandro Cianelli del V. C. U. Perugia ora qui di passagi

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    Post Card
    Comfort for the sick and wounded soldiers passing through the train stations Committee of Turin
    G. Carpanetto: "For the Nation" Tribute to the brave wounded in war
    Doyen Lithograph of I. Simondetti-Turin
    All rights reserved – Edition not for sale
    [Handwriting] Little [illegible] Alessandro Cianelli of V. C. U. Perugia now here in transit

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