Doctor placing patient in the correct position for taking chest x-ray for use in the diagnosis – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic photograph of Doctor placing patient in the correct position for taking chest x-ray for use in the diagnosis brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Doctor placing patient in the correct position for taking chest x-ray for use in the diagnosis
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A physician arranges a patient before the X-ray plate, and the careful positioning shown here was what made a chest film readable for diagnosis. The 1937 print comes from U.S. Public Health Service material in the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information collection, and its subject tags point to a health care setting serving African American patients during a decade when access to medical care was uneven. Chest radiography was one of the main tools for finding tuberculosis in the 1930s, a disease that hit poor communities hard, so the picture documents both the new technology and the public health work behind it.
| Created / published | 1937 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Photo from U.S. Public Health Service. Farm Service Administration and Office of War Information Collection. |
| Subjects | African Americans--Health & welfare--1930-1940. Physicians--1930-1940. Radiography--1930-1940. Health care facilities--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,285 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-189322 |
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