Category: The Black Star Collection
Creator: FARNWORTH, William
Event Date: 1961
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.060449

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: 1961; handwritten: East Africa / Nyasaland / Welare; handwritten: Malawi; handwritten: 8; stamped: Please credit photo by: / WILLIAM FARNWORTH / P.O. Mlanje, Nyasaland; handwritten: B.S.; typed label: 8. Child welfare. New born baby, light pigmentation at birth, / is test weighed by African nurse. Most African women / eschew hospital for childbirth, but a fair percentage do / use hospital facilities. Generally the missionary hospitals. / This scene shot in a Central Africa Presbyterian church, / hospital; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; stamped: A.R.T. FILMS / BOX 8252, C’WAY TELEPHONE 23974 / 47 NORTH AVE, SALISBURY; handwritten: B.S.; handwritten: LE / 9837

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: MALAWI / NYASALAND
Retouching: N