About This Item

  • TitleWelfare League
  • Call NumberHOSP_0326
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Welfare Leagure for orphan children aids hospital. Arthur Feigenbaum, superintendent of the Jewish Sanitarium and Hospital for Chronic Diseases, received a plaque from Mrs. Dora Dwork, president of the Welfare League for Orphan and Underprivileged Children, to be placed on the oxygen tent which the group has presented to the hospital at its annual dinner. Looking on are, left to right, Mrs. Fanny Shavel, co-chairman of the committee arranging the function, and Mrs. Frances Geller, chairman."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: Feb. 5, 1953; Jay Sharp Photos. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorSharp, Jay
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectHospitals -- New York (State) -- New York ; Plaques -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; Sanatoriums -- 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.