Presbyterian Hospital, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Monserrate Fernandez. This child was deserted by her parents and left to starve because she had club feet. An American man found her. He interested the Shriners of the Masonic Lodge in her. They cared for her until she was brought to the hospital several months ago.
1920 ca. 1920s-1930s
still image
photographs
photograph : black-and-white ; 4 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives. Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Home Missions. Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Puerto Rico--San Juan--20th century. Home missions--Puerto Rico--San Juan--20th century. Clubfoot--Patients--Puerto Rico--San Juan. Church work with the sick--Puerto Rico--San Juan.
Puerto Rico San Juan 20th century. San Juan. San Juan (P.R.) North and Central America--United States--Puerto Rico--San Juan--San Juan
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United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency Photographs, ca. 1870-ca. 1982.
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RG 303, Box 9, Folder 92; Presbyterian Historical Society
rg303_b9_f92_01
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