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c. 1890   Women cotton thread workers, c. 1890, an engraving of workers at the Clark Thread Company, Kearney.

1917  Delivery Room at Newark  After World War I, especially in urban areas, pregnant women increasingly opted for giving birth under the care of a female or male physician in a hospital, rather than at home attended by a midwife or family doctor.

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