About This Item

  • Call NumberHOSP_0362
  • TitleRenee Eisner
  • SummaryCaption: "Renee Eisner, 18, a wheelchair patient in the Jewish Sanitarium and Hospital [for Chronic Diseases], will have an extra thrill June 25 when she gets a high school diploma at commencement exercises in the hospital auditorium, E. 49th St. and Rutland Road. She will wear a dress that she made herself. Renee was admitted to the hospital in 1948 and took up dressmaking under the direction of Morris Pavloff."
  • Date1951
  • 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: Jun[e] 22, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectDressmaking -- New York (State) -- New York ; High school students -- 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
  • 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: Hospitals: Jewish Sanitarium & Hospital for Chronic Diseases: Rehabilitation: I