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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maude E. Callen

[img]https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/07/28/article-0-1B0287B2000005DC-225_970x662.jpg[/img]

[i]She was a 'doctor, dietician, psychologist, bail-goer and friend' to thousands of mostly African Americans crippled by poverty in the 1950s.

Yet tireless South Carolina nurse-midwife Maude Callen - who delivered hundreds of children, cared for the elderly and educated midwifery students in a 400-mile area 'veined with muddy roads' - never considered herself a hero.

Her's was a labor of love, captured in these extraordinary black and white photographs taken by legendary shooter W. Eugene Smith for LIFE magazine.

Smith's 20 picture-strong essay, splashed across a dozen pages in December 1951, was considered 'one of the most extraordinary photo essays ever to appear in [LIFE] magazine.'[/i]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2380359/Photos-South-Carolina-midwife-Maude-Callen-nursed-1950s-community-living-crippling-poverty.html[/quote]

Fascinating![/quote]

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