[Medicine / Television].

Press Photos of the First Televised Birth

$75.00

[San Francisco?]: Associated Press / Call Bulletin, 1952. Three b&w photos, varying slightly in size but on average 7" x 9-1/2". Caption printed in the plate of two photographs and affixed to the verso of the third one. Creasing to corner of one photo; stamps to versos. Very Good.

Three press photos showing the history-making televised hospital room birth of Gordon Campbell Kerr, who was born by Caesarean section on December 2, 1952 to a young Denver couple. The birth was carried on 49 television stations and watched by millions.