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Earthquake/Turkey

Margaret Bourke-White1940

LIFE Photo Collection

LIFE Photo Collection
New York City, United States

Turkish surgeon Dr. Necmi Ayanoglu w. his nurses, sewing up part of the incision in the pleurisy patient's back, during operation in a makeshift railroad car surgery after an earthquake destroyed the hospital..

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  • Title: Earthquake/Turkey
  • Date: 1940
  • Location: Erzincan, Turkey
  • Physical Dimensions: B/W PRINT
  • Subject Keywords: Turkey, Lungs, Turkish, Nurses, Operating Scenes, Necmi Ayanoglu, Doctors, Medicine, Earthquakes, Vintage Print, 1940s
  • Publisher: TimeLife
  • Usage: For personal non-commercial use only
  • Provider: LIFE
  • Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White
  • Original ID: TimeLife_image_732702
  • Credits: LIFE
  • Copyright: © Time Inc.
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