A Frontier Nurse carries a new baby while mountaineers carry the young, sick mother

A Frontier Nurse carries a new baby while mountaineers carry the young, sick mother

Photograph

Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson

Maker
American, 1905–2002

A Frontier Nurse carries a new baby while mountaineers carry the young, sick mother

1937
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 11/16 × 7 5/8 in. (24.6 × 19.3 cm)
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil on verso, C: A Frontier Nurse carries a new baby \ while mountaineers carry the young, sick mother \ on their way to the Hyden Hospital \ and a boy carries her nursing saddlebags \ Kentucky 1937
Stamped on verso, RB: MRS. JEFFERSON PATTERSON \ 3103 WOODLAND[?] DRIVE \ WASHINGTON 8, D. C.
Inscribed in pencil on verso, BLC: 111
Stamped on verso, BRC: PHOTOGRAPH BY \ MARVIN BRECKINRIDGE \ 401 EAST 58TH STREET \ NEW YORK CITY
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