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A 5.5x3.5" vintage half tone photo Postcard from the estate of a vintage postcard collector. Professionally packaged in a rigid mailer for safe delivery.
Photo Overview
Panoramic wartime view of a Polish Legion field hospital hastily set up on 9 November 1914 in the mountain clearing at Zielona in the Carpathians (then Galicia, Austro-Hungary, today Zelene, Ukraine). Dozens of Polish Legion soldiers in great-coats cluster around stretcher-bearers and Red Cross-flagged wagons while doctors treat the wounded on makeshift operating tables; limestone cliffs loom behind the camp. Captioned “Photo by a Polish Officer,” this scarce postcard was issued in 1915 and is a vivid first-hand record of the earliest World War I campaign fought by the Legions under Józef Pi?sudski.
The Polish Legions were formed in 1914 to fight alongside Austria-Hungary against Russia in hopes of securing Polish independence; their Carpathian winter campaign was brutal, with heavy casualties that forged the legend of the Legions and helped pave the way for the rebirth of Poland in 1918. Genuine frontline medical images from this theater are exceptionally uncommon—secure this powerful slice of WW1 history for your collection today before another historian does.
Text Present
Front, upper right: PHOTO BY A POLISH OFFICER
Front, lower center: LEGIONY POLSKIE – 1914 – THE POLISH LEGION
Front, below image: Field Hospital in Zielona, Carpathians
Front, lower right margin: 13 M.H.M 1915
Back, top: POST CARD
Back, message area: Szpital polowy w Zielonej (Karpaty) dnia 9-go listopada 1914.
Translation: Field hospital in Zielona (Carpathians) on 9 November 1914.
Back, left vertical: The Polish Legion in the European War, 1914
Print analysis: Printed collotype/halftone postcard published 1915 from an original negative taken November 1914; this is an original period issue, not a later reproduction.
Condition: In general all postcards we sell are in fair to good vintage condition. Please see photos for any tears, folds, smudges, or other age damage that may be present.
