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Listen: The Folk ProgramAfrican American midwife wearing a protective mask.
Image Number
SBH0128
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Collection
State Board of Health collection.
Series 904, Midwife program files, 1924-1975 ; Box 4, FF21
Series 904, Midwife program files, 1924-1975 ; Box 4, FF21
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Physical Description
1 photoprint - b&w - 5 x 3 in.
General Note
The Board initiated a midwife licensing program in 1931 to reduce infant mortality and to promote maternal and child health.
Accompanying note: "Her interpretation of nose and mouth mask [?] by 11 inches was this cross between a tea strainer and a chloroform cone."
African American midwife wearing a protective mask.
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