Tag: Cristóbal S Berry-Cabán
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Mrs. Dalloway and shell shock
Cristóbal S. Berry-Cabán Fort Liberty, North Carolina, United States Shell shock. Upon suffering a head injury and the loss of his eardrum, this soldier developed shell shock and was put in the Sunshine Room at Chaumont Hospital, installed by the American Red Cross. The room contained absolute quiet, harmonious colors, and cheerful surroundings. Library…
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Hiroshima seventy-five years after the bombing
Cristóbal Berry-Cabán Fort Bragg, North Carolina, United States Figure 1. Little Boy at Tinian Island, August 1945. National Archives. Figure 2. Mushroom cloud over Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. National Archives. Figure 3. This person’s skin was burned in a pattern corresponding to the dark portions of a kimono worn at the time of the…
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Katherine Anne Porter and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
Cristóbal S. Berry-Cabán Fort Bragg, North Carolina, United States Fig 1. Katherine Anne Porter. Photograph taken in Mexico, 1930. In Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Katherine Anne Porter weaves the horrors of the Great War, the 1918 influenza pandemic, and the near-death experience of a young woman in love with a doomed American soldier into…