Sound Clips from Interview with Elizabeth Austin

Baby in a washtub
Training
File size 1.3 MB
Grace Maternity Hospital
Preparation
File size 1.5 MB
Felix and Betty McCarthy's baby
Travel
File size 1.24 MB
Midwives Act, 1920
Aftercare
File size 879 KB
Ernest Pike
Payment
File size 1.83 MB


Captions for images:

Maritime History Archive, Memorial University, PF-318.041, Unidentified baby in a wash tub on the veranda of a house, [between 1925 and 1940], Forbes family fonds

The Rooms Provincial Archives, A 2-7, Grace Maternity Hospital, St. John's / Holloway Studio [before 1946], Holloway family fonds

Maritime History Archive, Memorial University, PF-306.332.004, Felix and Betty McCarthy's baby in a crib, taken during Christmas of 1955, John Cardoulis Photograph Collection

The Rooms Provincial Archives, GN 151.24, Midwives Act, 1920, House of Assembly fonds

Maritime History Archive, Memorial University, PF-314.01.130, Ernest and Evelyn (Thomas) Pike's baby, Ernest, [ca. 1943], Rorke family fonds


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