Object Details
- Caption
- Maude at 51 has a thoughtful, weary face that reflects the fury of her life. Orphaned at 7, she was brought up by an uncle in Florida, studied at Georgia Infirmary in Savannah, became a nurse at 21.
- W. Eugene, Smith “Nurse Midwife: Maude Callens Eases Pain of Birth, Life and Death.” Life, December 3, 1951, 138.
- Description
- A black-and-white photograph of Maude Callen holding a flower and leaning on a bag that is on a porch. The back of the photograph is stamped and inscribed.
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Photograph by
- W. Eugene Smith, American, 1918 - 1978
- Subject of
- Maude E. Callen, American, 1898 - 1990
- Date
- 1951
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, purchased with funds provided by The Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 10 3/8 x 13 7/16 in. (26.4 x 34.1 cm)
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- portraits
