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[Maternity building, New England Hospital for Women & Children, Dimock Street, Boston, Mass.] – Historic Photograph Print

[Maternity building, New England Hospital for Women & Children, Dimock Street, Boston, Mass.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Maternity building, New England Hospital for Women & Children, Dimock Street, Boston, Mass.], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Boston collection.

(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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[Maternity building, New England Hospital for Women & Children, Dimock Street, Boston, Mass.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Maternity building, New England Hospital for Women & Children, Dimock Street, Boston, Mass.]

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Few hospitals in Boston were built around women physicians the way this one was. The New England Hospital for Women and Children, shown here on Dimock Street, was founded in 1862 by Dr. Marie Zakrzewska and staffed largely by women, with a training school for nurses and doctors. This view of its maternity building is a glass dry plate negative made between 1900 and 1010 by the Detroit Publishing Company, which photographed American cities and institutions and sold the views widely. It records a working hospital at the turn of the century, when childbirth care was moving from the home into hospital wards.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. 82" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 068112. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsHospitals.United States--Massachusetts--Boston.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-71540

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