Moton Health Center Album -- Assisting in Final Preparations for Home Delivery

 

Name
Community Service Society of New York (Former owner,Former owner,Issuing body,Issuing body)
Title
Moton Health Center Album -- Assisting in Final Preparations for Home Delivery
Collection Name
Community Service Society records
Shelf Location
Box no. 622
Subjects
Women; Nurses; Maternal health services; Household linens; Cribs (Children's furniture); Children's furniture; African Americans; African American women; New York (N.Y.); Boone, Louise
Format
photographs
Genre
photographs
Date
circa 1944
Note
From Moton Health Center Album (about 1944) At that time segregated. Mrs. Louise Boone is the Public Health Nurse - later Supervisor, CSS East Harlem Health Service.
Annotation on back: M.H.C. #95
ASSISTING IN FINAL PREPARATIONS FOR HOME DELIVERY The nurse makes a final prenatal visit to the home to see that all the necessary supplies are in readiness for delivery at home. She tells the family to be sure to notify her when the baby is born and arranges to visit as soon as the bedside nursing care provided by the Home Delivery Service is completed.
Photographer unknown.
Library Location
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/5rs8-1j85