Midwife making a post-natal check, Hazard, Kentucky, 1956

Midwife making a post-natal check, Hazard, Kentucky, 1956

Photograph

Charles E. Rotkin

Maker
American, b. 1916

Midwife making a post-natal check, Hazard, Kentucky, 1956

June 1956
Gelatin silver print
Mount: 20 1/2 × 15 15/16 in. (20 1/2 × 15 15/16 in.)
Image: 11 1/16 × 13 3/8 in. (28.1 × 34 cm)
Gift of the photographer
1981.1680.0001
Inscriptions stamped in black ink, on verso, TC: pfi Photography for Industry \ 13 East 53rd., New York 22, N.Y. \ Telephone, PL-3-7464 \ Credit: Charles E Rotkin P.F.I.
inscribed in pencil on verso, TC: 696 - Roll[illeg]o M16
printed on yellow label adhered to verso, C: pfi Photography for Industry Date: 6/56 \ 13 East 53rd Street, New York 22, N.Y., Telephone, PL 3-7464 No. 696/40 \ Photograph by: Charles E. Rotkin \ M16 \ Location: North Fork, Troublesome Creek near Hazard KY \ Produced for: Physicians News Service \ Caption: Midwife from the Frontier Nurs \ ing service making a post-natal \ check on a baby she had delivered
inscribed and signed in black ink, on verso, BC: Presented to George Eastman House \ for their thoughtful appreciation \ of the problems of the photojournalist - \ Charles E Rotkin \ May 16th, 1958

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