About This Item


  • TitleA mother's touch
  • Call NumberWORK_0623
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "A mother's touch--An expectant mother [using a doll] learns the skillful but gentle knack of preparing the newborn for his daily bath. Under the guidance of trained instructors [from the Visiting Nurse Association of Brooklyn], classes are taught the do's and don't of infant care and feeding." The visiting nurse is unidentified.
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: caption stamped: Feb. 21, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectVisiting Nurse Association of Brooklyn ; Dolls -- New York (State) -- New York ; Newborn infants -- Bathing -- New York (State) -- New York ; Visiting nurses -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.