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[Nurse carrying newborn infant, Rohwer, Arkansas]

Muramoto, Walter [ bio ]

[Nurse carrying newborn infant, Rohwer, Arkansas]

photograph
H: 7 in, W: 5 in

Rohwer, Ark., 1942-1945

(97.292.10G)

Gift of the Walter Muramoto Family

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Description

1 photographic print : b&w

Portrait of woman in nurse's uniform, with cap and mask, holding a newborn infant in her arms at Rohwer concentration camp, Rohwer, Arakansas, 1942-1945. She stands at the far end of a row of cribs, in one of which another baby is visible at R. There is a window above the cribs. Behind her at CL is a low cabinet with canisters, bottles, and implements on top.

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