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• Author/Creator:St. John Ambulance Association.
  
• Title:Triangular bandage, printed with illustrations of bandage use.
  
• Publication:Great Britain : St. John Ambulance Association, approximately 1920.
  
• Physical Description:1 printed bandage : linen ; 144 x 69 cm
  
• Links:View catalog record for a printed sheet of instructions on use of the bandage
  View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
  

• Yale Holdings

  Holdings Record Display

  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Textiles 19b
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
    

   
• Notes:A printed sheet of instructions on use of the bandage is also present in the collections. See link herewith.
  The emblem of the St. John Ambulance Association appears at top; "registered design 7764" at bottom right. Parts of the bandage are identified as "point," "base," "side", or "end."
  
• Biographical / Historical note:Bandages such as this were introduced as a way to quickly communicate critical information in an emergency, and first came to prominent use on the battlefield, a lightweight, practical and potentially lifesaving accessory for any soldier. Originally invented in Switzerland, the triangular bandage was popularized by Friederich von Esmarch (1823-1908), Surgeon General of the German Army during the Franco-Prussian war. Able to be folded in multiple configurations, the triangular bandage served to cover injuries on nearly any part of the body as well as serve as an arm sling. They later found use in industrial and manufacturing environments, with early examples including scenes of what to do in medical emergencies, for example in mines, or on board ships. By the early twentieth century, first-aid organizations in England, including the British Red Cross and St. John Ambulance Association, produced their own versions of the instructional triangular bandage.
  
• Summary:Triangular bandage produced by the St. John Ambulance Association, printed with a series of images to illustrate how it should be used to treat a variety of first-aid emergencies, such as stabilizing broken limbs through the application of splints. Each use of the bandage in the illustrations is numbered (from 1 to 25), presumably in reference to a printed guide with further instructions.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Subjects:St. John Ambulance Association.
  First aid in illness and injury.
  Bandages and bandaging.
  World War, 1914-1918--Medical care--Great Britain.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1920.
  
• Genre/Form:Cloth prints.
  Printed textile materials.
  Textiles.
  Linen (material).
  Ephemera.
  Bandages.