Fostering Homeless Infants and Children | Photograph | Wisconsin Historical Society

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Fostering Homeless Infants and Children

Fostering Homeless Infants and Children | Photograph | Wisconsin Historical Society
Foster mothers take homeless infants and children into their homes. Members of the Madison advisory board of the Children's Service Society, a Red Feather agency, drive the foster mothers and their babies to a clinic for medical checkups one morning each month. Pictured in the waiting room of Dr. Alex Iams are Edith Anderson, a foster mother, and Children Society board members Mrs. Adolph Soucek, Mrs. Edward Felber and Dorothy Sinykin and Bertha Ebert, a foster mother. Playing in the center of the room is David Haugen who is accompanied his mother Mrs. Kenneth Haugen (of McFarland) to the clinic with the foster baby who is temporarily sharing the Haugen home. A bird mobile is hanging from the ceiling light.
DESCRIPTION
Foster mothers take homeless infants and children into their homes. Members of the Madison advisory board of the Children's Service Society, a Red Feather agency, drive the foster mothers and their babies to a clinic for medical checkups one morning each month. Pictured in the waiting room of Dr. Alex Iams are Edith Anderson, a foster mother, and Children Society board members Mrs. Adolph Soucek, Mrs. Edward Felber and Dorothy Sinykin and Bertha Ebert, a foster mother. Playing in the center of the room is David Haugen who is accompanied his mother Mrs. Kenneth Haugen (of McFarland) to the clinic with the foster baby who is temporarily sharing the Haugen home. A bird mobile is hanging from the ceiling light.
RECORD DETAILS
Image ID:137829
Creation Date: 05 02 1957
Creator Name:Stein, Edwin
City:Madison
County:Dane
State:Wisconsin
Collection Name:Edwin Stein negatives and photographs, 1952-1965
Genre:Photograph
Original Format Type:negative, original
Original Format Number:PH 2709.0368A
Original Dimensions:35 mm
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
One of 17 images. Published in the Wisconsin State Journal May 12, 1957. Also see Image IDs: 137835, 137837, 137838 and 137842.
SUBJECTS
Infants
Mothers
Women
Public welfare
Charities
Societies, etc
Clothing and dress
Health
Pediatrics
Physicians
Children
Indoor photography

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