The forgotten frontier

About

The forgotten frontier was filmed by photojournalist Marvin Breckinridge to document the humanitarian work being done in Kentucky by her cousin, nurse Mary Breckinridge, and the other nurse-midwives of the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS). The film shows nurse-midwives providing child hygiene, midwifery, sick nursing, medical care, dentistry, public health and assisting doctors with emergency surgery for people living in underserved areas in Kentucky's Appalachian Mountains. The film includes re-creations involving the actual patients, and depicts nurses traveling by horseback for miles through the mountains to help the community by delivering babies, inoculating children, and tending bullet wounds.

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Library of Congress, in Library of Congress: National Screening Room

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United States

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