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Life-Boat Drill, S.S. "Aurania". [Image 2]

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Title

Life-Boat Drill, S.S. "Aurania". [Image 2]

Subject

Physicians--World War, 1914-1918
United States. Navy

Description

Title supplied by cataloger
The S.S. "Aurania" sailed from New York on August 18, 1917 and disembarked from Liverpool England on September 2, 1917.
Photograph from an album by Dr. George Outerbridge (1881-1967), a former fellow of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, documenting his time serving in World War I with Pennsylvania Hospital Unit No. 10. in Le Tréport France. The album was donated to the Historical Medical Library by Mrs. Edward F. Harvey of Philadelphia on 6 July 1972. Mrs. Harvey found the collection in her home at 8 Summit Street in Philadelphia; this was a formerly the residence of George W. Outerbridge.

Creator

Outerbridge, George W. 1881-1967

Source

Publisher

Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Date

1917

Language

eng

Type

StillImage

Identifier

MSS_2_0138_3.2_5_2

Date Created

2016

Temporal Coverage

World War I, 1914-1918

Original Format

1 photograph : B&W

Physical Dimensions

6.5 x 4 cm

Citation

Outerbridge, George W. 1881-1967, “Life-Boat Drill, S.S. "Aurania". [Image 2],” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed November 23, 2024, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/6273.