Cold-water bathtubs at Kirvun luonnonparantola, Finland (1910s)
photograph · 1911
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SUMMARY
Wikimedia Commons file record for a 1910s photograph of patients in cold-water bathtubs at the Kirvun luonnonparantola nature-cure sanatorium in Finland. The Commons record states the rights as 'Public domain' and describes the image directly: 'Photograph of women sitting in bathtubs at Kirvun luonnonparantola, Finland. This cold-water hydrotherapy was developed by Louis Kuhne (1835-1901). Kirvun luonnonparantola was founded in 1911.' The caption is held to exactly what this record supports: the institution, the country, the 1910s date, the cold-water bathing, and the attribution of the method to Kuhne. No individual is named, because the record names none. Source for the object-role media entity kuhne-baths-finland, illustrating the international spread of the Kuhne method into nature-cure establishments. A dated search on 2026-06-12 of the four supported structured archives (Wellcome, Library of Congress, BnF/Gallica, Wikimedia Commons) found this photograph only on Wikimedia Commons, where it is credited to the holding institution Kirvun luonnonparantola; it is treated as the holding record per the project's accepted-residual convention.
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This is the Wikimedia Commons file record (File:Kuhne-baths-in-Finland-1910s.jpg) for a 1910s photograph of patients in cold-water bathtubs at the Kirvun luonnonparantola nature-cure sanatorium in Finland, an institution founded in 1911. The Commons record describes the scene and attributes the cold-water hydrotherapy to Louis Kuhne, and states the rights as public domain. The image is used as the object-role asset for the case, illustrating that the Kuhne method spread beyond Leipzig into branded nature-cure establishments abroad. The caption is kept to what the record states and names no individual sitter, since the record identifies none.