Stereoscopic image of the Soldiers' Home dining room - 1898.
The image is a scan of the original stereoview card. The card
was made for viewing through a stereoscope to give a 3-D effect.
Some people can get the effect without a stereoscope (the same
technique is used to view those 3-D stereograms that are so popular
now), by crossing their eyes.
We can thank Howard Knight
for this image.
Actually he sent 3 images of the same card - viewed differently,
however I chose the best one for our web page. ...sdw
Dining Room, Soldiers' Home, Marion, Ind., U.S.A. (1898)
The National Soldiers' Home at Marion, Indiana, cost more than $1,000,000. Hundreds of
disabled veterans are cared for here by the bounty of the nation for which they risked
all and lost much. Some are veterans of the war for the Union. Others lost health and
prospects in Cuba or the Philippines. Some trace their dependence to an enemy's shot or
shell, some to exposure, some to disease, some to deadly sunstroke. Now and then one will
say frankly that no enemy in Confederate gray, and no Spanish foeman, and no deadly bacillus
of typhoid or small-pox ever did him so much harm as his enslavement to evil habit; he is
his own worst enemy. Her citizens read[y] to die in her cause are the nation's wealth and
power, and the pledge of continued and increasing greatness Ten million heroes such as these
would answer Columbia's call if the shrill voice of well-founded alarm called them to arms.
Peace to these who have served and suffered, peace and comfort and honor well deserved.
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