Artist/Photographer

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Publisher

O'Neill and Assoc. Ltd.; Grant-Mann Lithographers

Date Published

1950-1965

Publishing Note

Dist. By Harry Rowed, O'Neill and Associates Ltd. Jasper, Alberta, Canada. Made in Canada Grant-Mann

Postcard Text

Mount Edith Cavell Here, in a photograph taken along the road which each year leads thousands of visitors to its base, is Mount Edith Cavell. Dominating the Athabasca Valley at Jasper, Cavell was named in memory of the heroine British nurse in World War I.

Postcard Number

S-1214

Personal Name Subject

Cavell, Edith, 1865-1915

Topical Subject

Mountains -- Alberta; World War, 1914-1918 -- Atrocities -- Belgium; World War, 1914-1918 -- Women; Nurses -- England; Nurses -- Belgium

Geographic Subject

Jasper National Park (Alta.); Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.)

Medical Subject

Nurses -- Belgium; Nurses -- Great Britain; Prisoners -- Belgium; Capital Punishment -- Belgium; World War I -- Belgium

City/Country Location

Jasper (Alta.)

Original Item Medium

postcards

Original Item Size

9 x 14 cm.

Genre

postcards

Local Genre

postcard

Type

Still Image; Text

Digital Format

image/jpg

Language

eng

Rights

The copyright and related rights status of this material is unknown. Acknowledgement of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is requested.

Collection

Kay Seidenberg Nursing Postcard Collection

Source

Original postcard: Mount Edith Cavell, Kay Seidenberg Nursing Postcard Collection, Accession Number 2016-02-01, Special Collections and Archives, VCU Health Sciences Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.

File Name

cavell_054b.jpg

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