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Now overgrown by jungle this is the entrance of what is believed to have been the world's first hospital, in the ruined city of Angkor Thom, French Indo-China. [Incomplete]
Now overgrown by jungle this is the entrance of what is believed to have been the world's first hospital, in the ruined city of Angkor Thom, French Indo-China. [Incomplete]

Now overgrown by jungle this is the entrance of what is believed to have been the world's first hospital, in the ruined city of Angkor Thom, French Indo-China. [Incomplete]

Date12/31/1938
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Original Toronto Star caption: Now overgrown by jungle this is the entrance of what is believed to have been the world's first hospital; in the ruined city of Angkor Thom; French Indo-China. [Incomplete]
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0116878F
Sheet A India (Part Of) Burma (North West) : Sheet B Burma (North East) Siam (Thailand) (North) French Indo China (Part Of) China (Part Of)
Sheet A India (Part Of) Burma (North West) : Sheet B Burma (North East) Siam (Thailand) (North) French Indo China (Part Of) China (Part Of)
Approximately 1944
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5/22/1973
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5/31/1976
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8/17/1979
Image shows a two storey residential house with some trees around it.
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1/12/1990
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10/11/1989
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6/9/1989
'To achieve what you believed impossible, that is deeply, deeply satisfying,' says Richard Adams, the civil servant whose first book, Watership Down, changed his life
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5/3/1988