1870–1871 military conflict of the Second French Empire versus Prussia and its allies

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Franco-Prussian War: women carrying wounded soldiers to hospital at Ivanitza. Coloured wood engraving by A.H.

Franco-Prussian War: soldiers convalescing in the Palais Royale Military hospital. Etching by H. Tissot, 1870.

Franco-Prussian War: a nurse treating wounded servians in an Usicza hospital. Coloured wood engraving.

Franco-Prussian War: wounded German soldiers on their way home from France. Wood engraving.

Franco-Prussian War: French wounded being treated at Metz. Wood engraving by J.W.B.

Franco-Prussian War: English ambulance services encamped outside the Park of St. Germain, Paris. Wood engraving.

Franco-Prussian War: ambulancemen collecting the wounded and dead at Champigné. Etching by A. Lançon, 1870.

Comédie-Française, Paris: a corridor used as a hospital in the Franco-Prussian War showing nurses treating patients. Photograph by Fiorillo after A. Brouillet, 1870.

A uniformed German army doctor arriving at the scene of an accident. Coloured lithograph, c. 1870.

Franco-Prussian War: wounded soldiers being treated in the church at Mouzon n the Ardennes. Etching by A. Lançon, 1870.

Franco-Prussian War: the wounded being taken to Strasbourg Cathedral. Wood engraving.

A German army doctor sits at a patient's bedside: a second soldier and a woman stand by. Coloured lithograph, c. 1870.

Le service pharmaceutique pendant la guerre Franco-Allemande de 1870-1871 / [Claude Moison].

Franco-Prussian War: a nurse looking out of a window at the queues for bread during the siege of Paris. Coloured transfer lithograph by F. Betbeder, ca. 1871.

Ward, Albert Lee (born c. 1835), American diplomat and Red Cross Volunteer

Franco-Prussian War: peasants going to bury the dead from the Battle of Worth. Wood engraving.

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Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871

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Images about Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871

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Le service pharmaceutique pendant la guerre Franco-Allemande de 1870-1871 / [Claude Moison].

Franco-Prussian War: a nurse looking out of a window at the queues for bread during the siege of Paris. Coloured transfer lithograph by F. Betbeder, ca. 1871.

Ward, Albert Lee (born c. 1835), American diplomat and Red Cross Volunteer

Franco-Prussian War: the wounded being taken to Strasbourg Cathedral. Wood engraving.

Franco-Prussian War: peasants going to bury the dead from the Battle of Worth. Wood engraving.

Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871

Images from the collections

Images about Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871

Works from the collections

Le service pharmaceutique pendant la guerre Franco-Allemande de 1870-1871 / [Claude Moison].

Franco-Prussian War: a nurse looking out of a window at the queues for bread during the siege of Paris. Coloured transfer lithograph by F. Betbeder, ca. 1871.

Ward, Albert Lee (born c. 1835), American diplomat and Red Cross Volunteer

Franco-Prussian War: the wounded being taken to Strasbourg Cathedral. Wood engraving.

Franco-Prussian War: peasants going to bury the dead from the Battle of Worth. Wood engraving.

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