Note handwritten by Amanda Carter about her family's midwifery careers
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1980
name: label: Written by
content: Amanda Carey Carter, American, 1909 - 2007
label: Owned by
content: Amanda Carey Carter, American, 1909 - 2007
notes: label: Description
content: An undated and unsigned note attributed to midwife Amanda Carter. The note tells of Carter's ancestors who worked as midwives three generations back. She also details a story of her mother delivering a baby in the middle of a road during an emergency. Carter writes that her mother delivered over 1,000 babies and that she herself has delivered around 500 babies. The note is handwritten in blue ink on three (3) pieces of white paper. It begins "Back in the older days of the 18 hundreds. My great grandma served as a midwife, on my mother side, for this [community]. Their transportation was an ox cart."
place: label: Place made
content: Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
label: Place used
content: Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Black Enterprise
label: Topic
content: Communities
label: Topic
content: Correspondence
label: Topic
content: Families
label: Topic
content: Health
label: Topic
content: Medicine
label: Topic
content: Midwifery
label: Topic
content: Motherhood
label: Topic
content: Rural life
label: Topic
content: Women
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Documents and Manuscripts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Fannie Mae Carter Silver
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2011.75.12abc
objectType: label: Type
content: notes
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Unknown - Restrictions Possible
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 8 x 5 in. (20.3 x 12.7 cm)