This very interesting post has a link to a silent film on the service, and photos of midwives’ equipment. This blog post on the National Museum of American History’s website from 2015 is about the Frontier Nursing Service, which sent nurse-midwives to rural areas of Appalachia beginning in 1925. Here are selected websites that offer free resources on the history of midwives and midwifery as a profession that you can consult for your novel. Midwife wrapping her kit to go on a call in Greene County, Georgia (1941) Credit: Library of Congress control no.:
