Children on crutches outside tobacco barn.
Title
Children on crutches outside tobacco barn .
Creator
Thomas, Jean, 1881-1982 (collector)
Description
A young girl and a boy , wearing overalls and apparently missing his right leg , walk with crutches next to a tobacco barn in the mountains , probably in eastern Kentucky . A woman wearing a bonnet dries out the tobacco leaves as a man wearing a hat approaches . The children were likely selected for treatment at Stephenson orthopedic hospital in Ashland , Kentucky , by Dr . Arthur Shade Jones , eastern head of the Kentucky Crippled Children Commission . Title supplied by cataloger .
Subject
Boys Girls Women Men Bonnets Hats People with disabilities Tobacco Barns
Date Original
193-?
Object Type
Negatives
Source
2 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. b&w nitrate negative. Item no. 1979.33.0259 in the Jean Thomas, The Traipsin' Woman, Collection, University of Louisville Photographic Archives.
Citation Information
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Collection
Jean Thomas, The Traipsin' Woman, Collection
Collection Website
http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/jthom/
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Photographic Archives
Format
image/jpeg
Ordering Information
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Image Number
ULPA 1979.33.0259
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