Glass plate negative image from a WWI France collection depicting the interior of a military hospital or convalescent ward, with long rows of beds extending beneath tall windows. Patients in hospital robes move about the space, their forms softened by the long exposure required of contemporary glass plate photography. Wards such as this housed the enormous numbers of wounded and convalescent soldiers generated by the industrial-scale warfare of WWI, and the image offers a rare intimate glimpse into the medical infrastructure that supported the front lines. Project: 218664