Dr. J. Whitridge Williams (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Dr. J. Whitridge Williams
[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the
negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.17673
Call Number: LC-B2- 3277-10
Comments and faves
bior (13 months ago | reply)
According to Wikipedia, "John Whitridge Williams (January 26, 1866 – October 21, 1931) was a pioneering obstetrician at Johns Hopkins Hospital." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Whitridge_Williams
artolog (13 months ago | reply)
He is pictured in this New York Times article from August, 1914, query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=98 05E0D7133DE3...,
and is quoted giving his (unfavorable) opinion of the controversial "painless childbirth" technique, the Freiburg Method, or "Twilight Sleep". Pictured also are "Babies of the Twilight Zone" . The method involved drugging the expectant mother with opiates and scopolamine.
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_Sleep
swanq (13 months ago | reply)
Artolog's NYT link didn't work for me. This might be more reliable
query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9805E 0D7133DE333A...
Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (13 months ago | reply)
I wrote his biography for Wikipedia starting on July 5, 2010, so he must have appeared in the collection last year.
artolog (13 months ago | reply)
yes, different crop of same picture:
