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title: India Restores Her War Cripples to Self-Support (Red Cross Institute exhibit poster)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/india-restores-war-cripples-red-cross-1919/
description: An exhibit poster pairs two photographs, disabled Indian soldiers learning motor mechanics and carpentry at a Bombay technical school, under the headline…
section: Collection
---

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# India Restores Her War Cripples to Self-Support (Red Cross Institute exhibit poster)

An exhibit poster pairs two photographs, disabled Indian soldiers learning motor mechanics and carpentry at a Bombay technical school, under the headline that India 'restores her war cripples to self-support'. Two trades at one school carry a claim about a whole country; the sheet gives no numbers of men trained, employed or left without work.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
[top, small: Exhibit of the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men and the Red Cross Institute for the Blind]
India Restores Her War Cripples
to Self-Support
Automobile mechanics is a popular trade with the disabled men at Queen Mary's Technical School, Bombay, India
The loss of limb does not prevent the injured soldiers of India's forces from becoming good carpenters
```

The Library of Congress caption note gives the same two captions. The small exhibit credit at the top is only partly legible.

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