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Masks, showing different stages in the work done by Mrs. Coleman Ladd of the American Red Cross, for soldiers whose faces have been mutilated in the war. Photograph shows casts taken from the soldiers’ muitilated faces; the lower row shows the faces which Mrs. Ladd modelled on the foundation of the life mask with help of photographs taken before the wound was received.On the table are some of the final masks made to fit over the disfigured part of the face.