Moton Health Center Album -- Demonstration Bath

 

Name
Community Service Society of New York (Former owner,Former owner,Issuing body,Issuing body)
Title
Moton Health Center Album -- Demonstration Bath
Collection Name
Community Service Society records
Shelf Location
Box no. 622
Subjects
Women; Scales (Weighing instruments); Nurses; Men; Families; Children--Health and hygiene; Children; Infants; African Americans; African American children; 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. #101
THE DEMONSTRATION BATH Mrs. Jackson feels she needs some help before undertaking to bathe her new baby alone, so the nurse visits and teaches the mother how to give a bath to the baby. She notes the baby's weight.
Photographer unknown.
Library Location
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/nedd-4997