Maude Using Stethoscope

Maude Using Stethoscope

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W. Eugene Smith

This image is part of a 1951 photo-essay profile for Life magazine of Maude E. Callen, an African American nurse midwife working in a 400-mile area of rural South Carolina known as Hell Hole Swamp. Smith spent two-and-a-half months following and documenting Callen and her work, which involved working an exhausting schedule serving impoverished communities and daily helping dozens of patients of all ages suffering from a range of maladies. Callen, who graduated from Florida A&M University before training as a nurse at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, was fifty-one at the time of the essay’s publication and was the first non-celebrity African American subject featured by Life in a twelve-page spread.
Artist
W. Eugene Smith
(American, 1918 - 1978)
Title
Maude Using Stethoscope
Date
1951
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
10 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. Overall
Credit
Gift of Kevin Eugene Smith
Accession No.
1989.71
Classification
Photographs
Geography
United States

Related

By 1989, collection of the artist’s son, Kevin Eugene Smith (Arlington, VA); December 1989, gifted to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

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