Mary's Center
date: label: date made
content: ca late 1980s
notes: label: Description
content: This folder and sheet of stationery were from the early years of Mary’s Center, a Washington, DC,-based community health center, and depict its original logo. Mary’s Center was founded in 1988 by nurse Maria Gomez, a Colombian immigrant, to serve pregnant Latina immigrants. In many cases, the women had become pregnant as a result of sexual assault during their migration journeys. Over time, the center has expanded to serve children, families, and a diverse patient population by providing health care, education, and social services. Initially housed in a basement in Adams Morgan, the center, as of 2022, has multiple locations in Washington, DC, and Maryland and serves around 65,000 patients a year. The original logo featured a woman and three children, reflecting the center’s early mission serving pregnant Central American women and their children. Often the women didn’t have the children’s fathers in their lives. In 2004, after the center had expanded its mission to serve men, the logo was modified to show a family with a woman, man, and two children. In 2018, that logo was replaced with an abstract image representing its expanded mission and diverse patient population.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place used
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
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content: Work and Industry: Philanthropy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2021.0197.2
label: accession number
content: 2021.0197
label: catalog number
content: 2021.0197.2
objectType: label: Object Name
content: folder
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 30.5 cm x 23 cm x .03 cm; 12 in x 9 1/16 in x in