Columbus Hill Health Center Album -- Weighing Child at Columbus Hill Health Center

 

Name
New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor (Issuing body)
Community Service Society of New York (Issuing body,Former owner)
Title
Columbus Hill Health Center Album -- Weighing Child at Columbus Hill Health Center
Abstract
#6377 From: Columbus Hill Health Center Album Unknown Photographer In "The 89th Annual Report of the A.I.C.P. 1931-1932," precedes page 25, first numbered page of report (only nurse and little boy shown). On page facing picture: Checking Up on His Improvement At Columbus Hill Health Center in a congested negro neighbor¬ hood of the City, A.I.C.P. maintains a staff of negro nurses and a nutrition ex pert to give immediate, practical help to mothers by protecting the health of their children and by advising them how to secure the most nourishment with their meagre funds. A similar service is rendered at Mulberry Health Center to an Italian neighborhood. A.I.C.P. maintains at both Centers medical and dental clinics in its further effort to promote neighborhood education in health standards, special emphasis is placed on preventive dentistry, maternity protection and the prevention of rickets.
Collection Name
Community Service Society records
Shelf Location
Box no. 300, Folder no. 59, Photograph no. 6377
Subjects
Women; Weighing instruments; Scales (Weighing instruments); Nurses; Children--Nutrition; Children--Health and hygiene; Children; Child rearing; African Americans; New York (N.Y.); Columbus Hill Health Center (New York, N.Y.)
Format
photographs
Genre
photographs
Date
1929
Note
Photographer unknown.
Annotation on front: (1929)
Annotation on back: From: Columbus Hill Health Center Album
According to "Thelonious Monk: the Life and Times of an American Original" (New York: Free Press, 2009) the Columbus Hill Health Center was located at 224 West 63rd Street since 1928.
Library Location
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/jtmm-8h57