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Caption: "Supervisor of Obstetrics Ada Williams [a nurse] receiving birth certificate from clerk [Grace Sharp] in her office next door to one of the hospital's five delivery rooms. On the reverse side of the certificate are the footprints of the infant and the fingerprint of the right index finger of the mother. In this instance, the infant was born about five minutes before the scene was photographed."

IMAGE DATE1952
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