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This image has been used in the indicommons.org post Interview: Helena Zinkham, Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress, with the hope that someone will, some day, recognize these men.

If you turn the date in mirror view, you'll find that the first digit is a 7 with the short arm turned to the right which makes it a 5 without the lower inverted "C". Most of the pictures of the series LC-B2-2198-x are date-scratched 5/16/11 and most of them were likely taken after Ciudad Juarez fell in insurrectos (Maderistas) hands, on May 10, 1911. The escene seems to be an American doctor attending a wounded insurrecto (See in this Bain Collection photo "Americans With Madero" "Dr. Wilson chief of our hospital corps" There's a picture in the Scott Photo Collection (Nr. 19) in which are depicted an armed man (maybe an insurrecto) and a wounded man, that seem were photographed on the same brick wall, which can be also found in your digital collections and programs: hdl.loc.gov./loc.pnp/cph.3b39285 which seems to be precedent of picture hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp´/cph3b39286 "A fallen hero" where it seems to be the corner of the same brick wall (both dated c 1911). Dr. Roberto Duarte Plastic Reconstructive Surgeon

From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armee_d%27_Afrique "At the outbreak of war in August 1914, the Army of Africa in Algeria and Tunisia comprised nine regiments of Algerian Tirailleurs, four of Zouaves, six of Chasseurs d'Afrique, four of Spahis and two of the Foreign Legion. In Morocco nineteen battalions of Tirailleurs and nine of Zouaves were on active service, along with elements of the Foreign Legion and the African Light Infantry. Large numbers of these troops were sent immediately to serve in France, mainly drawn from the peacetime garrisons of Algeria and Tunisia."

Original Agence Meurisse photo on Gallica site, with caption:
"Neufmoutiers : blessés marocains transportés à l'ambulance"
Neufmoutiers : Wounded Moroccan transported to an ambulance




Publication date 1914

Reading the full original caption paints an incredibly sad, yet inspiring picture.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Disability History, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

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