Childhood mortality: interior of a nursery with eight babies, watched by Death who opens the window from outside and reveals an industrial cityscape. Colour lithograph by Alice Dick Dumas.

  • Dumas, Alice Dick, 1878-
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[1917?]
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47669i
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Childhood mortality: interior of a nursery with eight babies, watched by Death who opens the window from outside and reveals an industrial cityscape. Colour lithograph by Alice Dick Dumas. Wellcome Collection. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[Lyons] : Bureau des Enfants, Croix-Rouge Américaine, [1917?] (Lyon : Imp. Réunies)

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1 print : lithograph, printed in black and red ; sheet 86 x 122.3 cm

Lettering

Sauvez votre bébé! (1 enfant sur 8 meurt avant 1 an) La mort le guette. Mères! Par vos soins intelligents, arrachez-le de ses mains. A. Dick Dumas

References note

M. Robert-Sterkendries, La santé s'affiche, Bruxelles: Therabel, 2003, no. 613, p. 309
Julia F. Irwin, '"Sauvons les bébés": child health and U.S. humanitarian aid in the First World War', Bulletin of the history of medicine, 2012, 86: 37-65 (on American aid in France: p. 47 American Red Cross children's bureau in Lyons)

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Wellcome Collection 47669i

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