About This Item

  • Call NumberSWEL_0467
  • TitleA helping hand for the aged
  • SummaryCaption: "A helping hand for the aged--Here is the committee for the annual dinner of the Worschauer Haym Salomon Home for the Aged which is erecting new $1,500,000 building on Cropsey Ave. and Bay 34th St. ... From left to right: Benjamin Labenbaum, treasurer, Benjamin Wachs, co-chairman, new building fund, Hyman Edelman, chairman new building fund, Louis Borenstein, chairman board of directors, Louis Blumenstock, president, and Samuel Haber, vice president."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: caption stamped: Dec. 21, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorReiss, Sam [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectHaym Salomon Home for the Aged (New York, N.Y.) ; Fund raising -- New York (State) -- New York ; Old age homes -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Social welfare: Homes: Haym Salomon Home for the Aged: II