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Nurse from U.S.I.S. Tuberculosis Hospital Uses X-Ray to Persuade Navajo Family of the Need for Hospitalization

Helen M. Post (1907-1979)

Object Details

  • Date

    ca. 1936-1942

  • Object Type

    Photographs

  • Medium

    Gelatin silver print

  • Dimensions

    7 7/16 x 8 7/16 in.

  • Inscriptions

    Verso:

    u.r. in black ink: NAV. \ Winslow, Arizona

    c.l. in black ink: Nurse from U.S.I.S. Tuberculosis \ hospital uses x-ray to persuade \ Navajo family of the need for \ hospitalization, patient in \ question is at extreme left \ of group, the boy at right \ is a former patient, now \ serving as interpreter.

    c.r. in graphite: 77-86 \ 2 [circled]

    l.r. in black ink: Not to be used for \ reproduction without credit. \ Photo Helen M. Post \ 142 Lexington Ave. [crossed out] \ N.Y. 16. N.Y.

  • Collection Name

    Helen M. Post Collection

  • Credit Line

    Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Gift of Peter Modley

  • Accession Number

    P1985.50.931

  • Copyright

    © Amon Carter Museum of American Art

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