Creator |
Paul, Dan E., photographer. |
Title |
[View of operating room with Dr. J.H. Mudgett and African American men physicians and African American women nurses at a surgical
procedure at Dr. J. H. Mudgett’s Private Hospital and Training School for Nurses, 2030 N. 13th Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
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Publisher |
Philadelphia |
Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1919 |
Date |
[1919] |
Physical Description |
1 photograph : gelatin silver mounted on board; mount 35 x 30 cm (13.75 x 11.75 in.) |
Description |
View shows Dr. John Herbert Mudgett and African American physicians and nurses surrounding an African American person lying
on a surgical gurney and covered in surgical drapes in an operating room. Mudgett, center and looking at the camera, and attired
in a surgical cap and gown, rests his hands on the patient. To his right stands a nurse, attired in a cap and a white surgical
gown who looks with a side glance at the camera. To her right, a man anesthesiologist, in right profile, is seated, and holds
his hands above the face of the patient. In the right foreground, two men physicians, attired in surgical caps and gowns stand
over and have their hands on the patient. One man looks at the patient and the other man looks at the camera. In the left,
center background, possibly Miss Harris, super-intendant of the nurses, attired in a striped, nurse's cap looks over the shoulder
of Mudgett. In the far right background, a nurse attired in a surgical cap and gown looks, with a slight frown, at the camera.
The face and head of another nurse wearing a surgical cap is seen behind her. View also includes two uncovered windows in
the background.
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Dr. J. H. Mudgett’s Private Hospital and Training School for Nurses was established by New Hampshire-born white (per census
records) physician John H. Mudgett and chartered in 1919. Mudgett served as the medical director of surgery. In 1921, the
school was one of a number of nursing schools advertised in the “Evening Public Ledger” as offering "Free Tuition, Board,
Lodging, and a Nominal Fee" to be trained as a nurse. Mudgett, graduated Dartmouth Medical School in 1896 and resided in Philadelphia
as a physician by circa 1905. By 1925, he was listed as only a physician with no listing for the training school. Mudgett,
a member of the First African Baptist Church, died in 1945. At the time of his death he was in a multiracial marriage with
Adeline Mudgett (1889-1958), a former dressmaker. His race on his death certificate had been altered from white to "colored."
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Notes |
Title supplied by cataloger. |
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Name of attributed photographer from complementary photographs. |
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Date inferred from photographs with complementary content and article about "Mudgett’s Hospital Has Its First Commencement,"
Philadelphia Tribune, July 19, 1919.
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See also complementary group portrait photographs - Education - M [P.2022.5.1 & 2]. |
Subject |
Harris, Miss, active 1919 -- Portraits. |
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Mudgett, John Herbert, 1872-1945 -- Portraits. |
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Dr. J. H. Mudgett’s Private Hospital and Training School for Nurses (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
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African American physicians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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African American nurses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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African Americans -- Education -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Nursing schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Physicians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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African American nursing schools. |
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Black hospitals. |
Genre |
Group portraits -- 1910-1920. |
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Portrait photographs -- 1910-1920. |
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Gelatin silver prints -- 1910-1920. |
Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *group portrait photographs - education - Mudgett's Hospital [P.2022.5.3] |
Accession number |
P.2022.5.3 |