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Listen: The Blues ProgramMale midwife with his family
Image Number
N035372
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Collection
General collection
Subject Term
Physical Description
1 photonegative - b&w - 4 x 5 in.
Biographical Note
He delivered most of his 14 children for his late wife who died about a month after her last delivery. He used unwashed, unboiled family scissors to cut the cord of a neighbor's baby who subsequently died of tetanus.
Male midwife with his family
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