Authentic images show World War I-era prosthetics created by sculptor Anna Coleman Ladd for wounded soldiers with facial disfigurements. Rating: Mostly True (About this rating?) What's True: These ...

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While Ladd led her team at the Studio for Portrait Masks to create the prosthetics, she was not the sole artist working on the masks, making it difficult to credit individual masks only to one person.