Nurse midwife Maude Callen after 27 hours at work

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

Nurse midwife Maude Callen after 27 hours at work

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Nurse midwife Maude Callen after 27 hours at work,

1951

W. Eugene Smith, 1918–1978; born Wichita, KS; died Tucson, AZ; active New York, NY and Tucson
2019-114

Information

Title
Nurse midwife Maude Callen after 27 hours at work
Dates

1951

Maker
W. Eugene Smith
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 34.8 × 25.8 cm (13 11/16 × 10 3/16 in.) sheet: 35.4 × 27.7 cm (13 15/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
Object Number
2019-114
Place Depicted

North America, United States, South Carolina, Pineville

Inscription
in graphite, on verso top right: #5889450 | 1-54 / 18 1/2 [underlined] | [illegible] | 69/50 in graphite, on verso upper center: BB [in circle] in ink, on verso upper center: Callum, Maude (midwife) | medicine-nurses-amer-negro in graphite, on verso center: W. Eugene Smith [circled in red pencil] | BF in blue pencil, on verso center: #35090 [in circle] in graphite, on verso bottom center: PF 120141 in graphite, on verso bottom right: 548
Marks/Labels/Seals
Printed, on verso top: [alternate title] Stamp in black ink, on verso center: 2933 Stamp in red ink, center top: USED IN LIFE DEC 3 1951 | [in red pencil] p137 [rectangle in red ink around] Stamp in red ink, on verso center right: USED IN LIFE DEC 1 1972 | [in black ink] p. 33 [in blue ink: check mark] [rectangle in red pencil around] Stamp in red ink, on verso center bottom: INTERNATIONAL EDITION DEC 31 1951 | [in red pencil] p45 [rectangle in red ink around] Stamp in black ink, on verso lower center: © ____Time Inc. All Rights Reserved. | No reproduction, commercial display or other | use is permitted without express written | permission of the copyright holder
Culture
American
Type
gelatin silver prints, photographs
Techniques
gelatin silver process
Subject
nurses, windows, photojournalism, women

Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund

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