Pianos and the Wounded: Recovery, 1918

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Pianos and the Wounded: Recovery, 1918

Original 1918 photograph, 6x8 inches, piano playing for U.S. soldiers in hospital. $650.00

This image come from my collection of World War I news photo service photographs, and is one of a minority that show even momentary happiness. The emotion resolves itself in song and in the piano, and takes place in a U.S. overseas hospitals for wounded soldiers--they seem genuinely relieved to have the attention and the entertainment.

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