Bucaramanga, Colombia: a mule is pulled through a stream flooded by heavy rain; International Sanitary Commission staff watch from the bank. Photograph, ca. 1916.

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1916
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566880i
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1916

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1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 7.6 x 13.4 cm

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All travel here is by muleback and when the heavy rains are on one is sometimes obliged to ford or swim streams. This was the experience of the Sanitary Commission on this occasion. This between Bucaramanga and the Magdalena River. From Dr. Hanson

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Wellcome Collection 566880i

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