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Pianos and the Wounded: Recovery, 1918

Original 1918 photograph, 6×8 inches, piano playing for U.S. soldiers in hospital.  $650.00

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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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