About This Item

  • TitlePatient on the mend
  • Call NumberHOSP_0367
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Patient on the mend--Ruth Willing, a member of the patients' dressmaking class at the Jewish Sanitarium and Hospital for Chronic Diseases, fits a dress on a dressmaker's dummy on which she has been working for the patients' fashion show at the hospital Thursday, at 1 p.m. Assisting her is Mrs. Eve Margolin, director of the hospital's department of volunteers, which is sponsoring show."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: Nov. 16, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle; Jay Sharp Photos. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorSharp, Jay
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectDressmaking -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospital patients -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York ; Occupational therapy -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sanatoriums -- New York (State) -- New York ; Volunteer hospital workers -- 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.