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Lil Rockers: 1917
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 06/24/2012 - 6:18am.
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New York circa 1917. "St. Luke's Hospital children's ward." 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.
Not so hypersensitive back then.
Submitted by bbguy on Sun, 06/24/2012 - 11:38am.
Looks like the child on the right has been restrained with a piece of bed linen, probably just so he'll sit still for the picture. Nowadays the parents would hit the ceiling and the nurse would be fired and labelled a child abuser.
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