Schoolyard parking lot with people gathered to see Nurse Midwife, Maude Callen, South Carolina

Image by W. Eugene Smith © 1951 The Picture Collection Inc. All rights reserved.

Schoolyard parking lot with people gathered to see Nurse Midwife, Maude Callen, South Carolina

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Schoolyard parking lot with people gathered to see Nurse Midwife, Maude Callen, South Carolina,

1951

W. Eugene Smith, 1918–1978; born Wichita, KS; died Tucson, AZ; active New York, NY and Tucson
for LIFE magazine
2018-42

Information

Title
Schoolyard parking lot with people gathered to see Nurse Midwife, Maude Callen, South Carolina
Dates

1951

Maker
W. Eugene Smith
for LIFE magazine
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
23.2 × 34 cm (9 1/8 × 13 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
Object Number
2018-42
Place Depicted

North America, United States, South Carolina, Pineville

Inscription
Handwritten in graphite on verso, right: Maude Callen Inscribed in graphite on verso, right: #768141 Inscribed in graphite on verso, lower center: PF6277472
Marks/Labels/Seals
Stamp in black ink on verso, left: Credit W. EUGENE SMITH | WEST STREET | NEW YORK CITY Stamp in black ink on verso, left [Time Inc. stamp]: All Rights Reserved. No reproduction, | commercial display or other use is | permitted without express written | permission of the copyright holder. Stamp in blue ink on verso, right: 35090 Stamp in red ink on verso, and inscribed, right: USED IN LIFE DEC 3 1951 | p 143 | INTERNATIONAL EDITION DEC 31 1961 | p 51 Typed on verso, along right edge: Nurse Midwife -- Outside a clinic held in school, crowd waits to see Maude. On one afternoon, with | one assistant, she gave 810 typhoid shots, later went out and delivered another | baby
Culture
American
Type
gelatin silver prints, photographs
Techniques
gelatin silver process
Subject
schoolyards, groups of people, families, children (people by age group), girls, figures (representations), men, photojournalism, women

[Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY]; purchased by the Princeton University Art Museum, 2018.

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