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Image Not Available for A mother brings her baby back to the Child Welfare Clinic after discharge from hospital to have it weighed.
A mother brings her baby back to the Child Welfare Clinic after discharge from hospital to have it weighed.
Image Not Available for A mother brings her baby back to the Child Welfare Clinic after discharge from hospital to have it weighed.

A mother brings her baby back to the Child Welfare Clinic after discharge from hospital to have it weighed.

Creator Dorien Leigh
Date1930s
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall: 16.2 x 21 cm (6 3/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
Credit LineAnonymous Gift, 2002
Category
  • Photographs
Object number2002/5731
LocationNot currently on display

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