Two Ladies weighing an infant on Better Baby Day

1932-05

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Two Ladies weighing an infant on Better Baby Day
  • Title
  • Two Ladies weighing an infant on Better Baby Day
  • Identifier
  • MSP78.B002.F07.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP78.B002.F07.I01
  • Description
  • A baby is being weighed at the Irene Kaufmann Settlement (IKS). The IKS initiated numerous health programs, under the direction of Anna Heldman, that eventually became city services, including a visiting nurses service, a pre-natal nursing service, Better Baby clinics, and the medical inspection in the city's schools. To express their thanks to Heldman in 1939, a year before her death, the name of Overhill Street was changed to Heldman Street. In 1957, after the IKS had moved from the Hill District to Pittsburgh's East End, the settlement was renamed the Anna B. Heldman Community Center. The Irene Kaufmann Settlement merged with the YM&WHA and evolved into the present-day Jewish Community Center (JCC) in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood. The JCC continues the tradition of the IKS in providing programs and services to the nonsectarian local community.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Irene Kaufmann Settlement (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Infants--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Babies--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Better Baby Day (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Jews--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Irene Kaufmann Settlement Photographs, 1897-1946, MSP 78, Rauh Jewish Archives, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Irene Kaufmann Settlement Photographs
  • Rights Information
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