- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Children at Grady Hospital
- Publisher:
- WAGA-TV [Television]; Negro -Afro- American] Child in Grady Hospital, Box LBCB114, Envelope 77, Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976, Special Collections Department & Archives, Georgia State University, Atlanta.
- Date of Original:
- 1953-11-17
- Subject:
- Children--Georgia--Atlanta
African American children--Georgia--Atlanta
Patients--Georgia--Atlanta
African Americans--Segregation--Georgia--Atlanta
Segregation--Georgia--Atlanta
Boys--Georgia--Atlanta
Girls--Georgia--Atlanta
African American boys--Georgia--Atlanta
African American girls--Georgia--Atlanta
Women--Georgia--Atlanta
African American women--Georgia--Atlanta
Nurses--Georgia--Atlanta
African American nurses--Georgia--Atlanta
Hospitals--Georgia--Atlanta
Hospital beds--Georgia--Atlanta
Tables--Georgia--Atlanta
Children's art--Georgia--Atlanta
Drawing--Georgia--Atlanta
Crayon drawing--Georgia--Atlanta
Crayons--Georgia--Atlanta
Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- African American children work on art projects at Grady Hospital in 1953. The hospital, segregated until the 1960s, was often referred to as "the Gradies" because of its separate facilities for Black patients and white patients.
Photograph of nine African American children working on art projects at Grady Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, 1953. They sit around a table covered in a printed cloth. Several children draw on construction paper with crayons. Several others cut paper with scissors. An African American nurse sits at the head of the table. Hospital beds stand behind them against the walls.
The hospital, segregated until the 1960s, was often referred to as "the Gradies" because of its separate facilities for black patients and white patients. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/science-medicine/grady-health-system/m-8063/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Special Collections Department & Archives, Georgia State University, Atlanta
Special Collections & Archives, Georgia State University Library - Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/science-medicine/grady-health-system
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia
Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection - Contributing Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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