Monument to Edith Cavell

Artist/Photographer

Preview

Publisher

Nels

Date Published

1918-1930

Publishing Note

Ern. Thill, Bruxelles.

Postcard Text

Bruxelles Monument élevé à la mémoire de Miss Edith Cavell, directrice de l'Ecole belge des Infirmières, emprisonée le 5 août 1915, fusillée le 12 octobre pour avoir fait passer des recrues à l'ennemi (Artiste: Jacques Marin.)

Personal Name Subject

Cavell, Edith, 1865-1915 -- Monuments; Cavell, Edith, 1865-1915 -- Portraits

Topical Subject

Monuments -- Belgium -- Brussels; World War, 1914-1918 -- Atrocities -- Belgium; World War, 1914-1918 -- Women; Nurses -- England; Nurses -- Belgium; World War, 1914-1918 -- Monuments -- Belgium -- Brussels

Geographic Subject

Brussels (Belgium) -- Buildings, structures, etc.

Medical Subject

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

City/Country Location

Brussels (Belgium)

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

fre

Rights Statement URL

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/

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: Monument to 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_072b.jpg