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Blind Women, Egypt
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Photojournalist Lori Grinker has become well known for her photographs of the aftereffects of war and for her photo essays on her brother’s death from AIDS and her mother’s struggle with cancer. In…

Contributor:

Lori Grinker

Places:

Cairo, Egypt

Date:

1995

Subjects:

Photography, Community, Women, Health

Categories:

Photography
Photograph featuring four young girls holding onto each other's shoulders walking down the stairs in a train with two older women in the front and back.
Title Page of the Register of a Jewish Midwife
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This detailed bilingual Hebrew-Yiddish register kept by Roza, a Jewish midwife in the Jewish community of the Dutch city of Groningen in the years from 1794 to 1832, provides basic information about…

Contributor:

Roza

Places:

Groningen, Dutch Republic (Groningen, Netherlands)

Date:

1794

Subjects:

Life cycle, Birth, Women, Profession, Health

Categories:

Print & book culture, Firsthand accounts
Manuscript page with two columns of writing in Yiddish and Hebrew and a decorated border.