Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 USC Libraries Special Collections University of Southern California specol@usc.edu
Description
3 images. Polio mother gives birth to baby, 16 April 1958. Mrs. Renee Braasch Barbara Lynn Braasch (baby). Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Gaze. Date: 1958-04-16. Reporter: Gaze. Assignment: Polio mother. 7/9/10: Mrs. Renee Braasch of 3720 Nicolet st., Los Angeles, in St. John's Hospital, Santa Monica, with her third child, Barbara Lynn, born last Monday. Mrs. Braasch has been confined to a wheelchair since a polio attack in September, 1948. She has two other children, Denise Ellen, 1, and Robert Arthur, 3 1/2".
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : negatives, b&w 13 x 10 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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