About This Item
Title
Gelbkreuz Gasschutz
Subject
Mustard Gas
Emergency Shelter
World War I
Description
Handwritten sign for a World War I mustard gas shelter. Typewritten caption: This yellow-cross mustard gas shelter I took off the entrance to a gas-proof dugout, 50 ft. deep (trap door and ladder. This had been captured from the Huns intact in the battle of Mont-Sec on Sept. 12th, 1819 [i.e. 1918?].
Date based on likely year of obtainment by Dr. George W. Norris while stationed in France, 1917-1918.
Source
Original photograph in: Norris, George William, 1875-1965. Diary, World War I (Philadelphia, 1959), page 133. ZZ10c 5 (Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
Publisher
Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Date
between 1917? and 1918?
Language
ger
Type
Text
Identifier
ZZ10c_5.133c
Temporal Coverage
History, 20th Century
Original Format
1 sign : 8 x 23 cm
Citation
“Gelbkreuz Gasschutz,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed October 31, 2025, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/1529.