"Mikiko Kashiwabara, a Japanese American nurse, offers a bouquet of flowers to Shigeko Niimoto upon the arrival of the Hiroshima Maidens and their prominently displayed Pan-American Airways flight bags at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Mitsuko Kuaramoto, whose eye patch marked her as the "weeping Maiden" is seventh in line. Photograph taken May 9, 1955, (c) Bettmann/Corbis."

From: Serlin, David. Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.