Lifebuoy Soap: royal disinfectant
- Collection:
- Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
- Author(s):
- Scott, Sep. E. (Septimus Edwin), 1879-1965, artist
- Contributor(s):
- Zwerdling, Michael, former owner Imperial War Museum (Great Britain), publisher.
- Publication:
- [London] : Imperial War Museum, [between 1900 and 1950?]
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Still image
- Subject(s):
- Soaps Nurses Disinfectants Military Nursing -- history World War I England Lever Brothers Ltd.
- Genre(s):
- Postcards Advertisements
- Abstract:
- Postcard featuring a color illustration of some nurses and patients, along with a visiting soldier in a hospital room. The nurses are wearing white aprons, white headcloths, and red shawls. One nurse is holding a piece of paper in her hand. Another nurse is leaning over a patient. The patients, who are resting in beds in a row along the wall, are wearing white shirts. The soldier, dressed in a military uniform with a hat, is visiting a patient whose head is bandaged. There are portraits and windows on the wall. On a table in the foreground there is a basin along with a box and two bars of Lifebuoy Soap.
- Copyright:
- Copyright status must be investigated before publishing or commercial use.
- Extent:
- 1 postcard : 15 x 11 cm
- Provenance:
- Purchase; Michael Zwerdling; 2004; 04-22.
- Technique:
- color
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101627116 (See catalog record)
- NLM Image ID:
- D06734
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101627116