About This Item

  • TitleBrace fund
  • Call NumberHOSP_0349
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Brace fund--Joseph Weinstein, left, president of Mays Department Store, presents $5,000 check to Isidor Leviton, general chairman, and Isaac Albert, president of the Jewish Sanitarium and Hospital for Chronic Diseases, E. 49th St. and Rutland Road. The presentation marks the opening of the hospital's 27th annual fund drive. Nadine and Johnny, two of the children who have benefited from Mr.Weinstein's brace fund, [both sitting in wheelchairs,] look on."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteStamped on verso: date: Oct, 5, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle; Jay Sharp Photos. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorSharp, Jay
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFund raising -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospital patients -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sanatoriums -- New York (State) -- New York ; Wheelchairs -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.