Fine Print: Nurse Midwife. Berkeley County, South Carolina, 1951 Black and White not for press

not for press

This contact sheet contains images of women in a dust storm in Rajasthan

including both commissioned and personal photographs

The resulting black and white photographs—accompanied by an extensive text drawn from diary notes and ‘the silt of the memory’—formed Towell’s landmark book

when Thomas Hoepker was a young staff photographer at STERN magazine

Fine Print: Nurse Midwife. Berkeley County, South Carolina, 1951 Black and White not for pressIn 1951, during the height of segregation, LIFE magazine staff photographer W. Eugene Smith documented the heroic efforts of a black nurse midwife, Maude Callen, who served an impoverished community of 10,000 people in rural South Carolina. The story appeared in the December 3, 1951, issue of LIFE. The caption read: SIMPLE KINDNESS overwhelms an old man, who had been paralyzed for 20 years. The story made a plea for donations to build Maude a new