Ruth Lubic: She set up Maternity Center Association birth centre in New York as a demonstration program to show mothers didn't need hospitals to give birth

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Ruth Lubic: She set up Maternity Center Association birth centre in New York as a demonstration program to show mothers didn't need hospitals to give birth

Date4/18/1985

Names

Combs, Erin (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

FormatPicture

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Original Toronto Star caption: Ruth Lubic: She set up Maternity Center Association birth centre in New York as a demonstration program to show mothers didn't need hospitals to give birth.

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Medium

Photographs

Language

English

ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

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