Decorated Retreat wagonettes

Date:
1900-2000
Reference:
RET 1/8/4/17/8
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Decorated Retreat wagonettes. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The wagonettes are mostly decorated for ‘Hospital Saturday’. Photograph 1 shows a decorated wagonette and horse, with Retreat nurses on top, c 1900. Photographs 2-3 show a wagonette carrying on it a large model of a ship, with people in fancy dress, c 1900 (one of the photographs has been sent as a postcard to HC Hunt in 1922). Photograph 4 shows a horse and carriage in front of the Retreat for a celebratory event, 11 July 2000

Publication/Creation

1900-2000

Physical description

4 photographs

Terms of use

Open and available at the Borthwick Institute for Archives. This material has been digitised by the Borthwick Institute for Archives as part of a Wellcome Trust funded project, and can be freely accessed online through the Wellcome Library catalogue.

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