Name
New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor (Issuing body)
Community Service Society of New York (Issuing body,Former owner)
Title
Mulberry Health Center Album -- Mothers and Kiddies Waiting for Care
Abstract
#4402 From: Mulberry Health Center Album Unknown Photographer In Bagdad on the Subway: A Periodical of Association [AICP] News, No. 7, September 1919, p. 15. Used as illustration in article entitled, "Child Health Work," pp. 15-l6. Caption: Mothers and Kiddies Waiting for Care. Excerpt from article, p.16. "The district chosen is the most predominantly Italian in New York City and is provided with o nly a minimum of public health and social agencies. According to the census of 1910, the population was 38,269, of whom 34,848 were Italians, either foreign born or of foreign parentage. It comprises forty-four city blocks of which seventeen are devoted entirely to business, leaving an average population of about 1,400 per block ... It is a far cry from sunny Italy to the crowded tenements with their dark, unventilated rooms . . . In AICP pamphlet "Developing Child Health via Community Organization," c1919, page 11. Caption: Mothers with their children of all ages patiently waiting their turn to hear the doctor's verdict.
Collection Name
Community Service Society records
Shelf Location
Box no. 299, Folder no. 71, Photograph no. 4402
Subjects
Women; Mothers; Italian Americans; Children--Health and hygiene; Children; New York (N.Y.); Mulberry Health Center (New York, N.Y.)
Format
photographs
Genre
photographs
Date
1919
Note
Photographer unknown.
Annotation on back: From: Mulberry Health Center Album
Library Location
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content
Also In
Community Service Society photographs
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/swxt-sy40