Baby Clara Ford Mitchell at the First Red Bird Center, 1928

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Artifact Overview

Clara Ford, whose husband, Henry, owned land for logging and mining along Kentucky's Red Bird River, funded a Frontier Nursing Service center to provide midwives and other medical services for area residents. The healthy baby girl pictured here -- named after the center's benefactor -- was the first child delivered by a nurse from the Clara Ford Nursing Center.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Date Made

1927-1929

Subject Date

1927-1929

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

64.167.1.402

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 4.5 in
Width: 2.75 in

Inscriptions

Handwritten on back of image: Clara Ford Mitchell / 1st Red Bird Center / Baby Wt 9lbs
Baby Clara Ford Mitchell at the First Red Bird Center, 1928