About This Item

  • TitleVoting for their favorites
  • Call NumberHOSP_0756
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Voting for their favorites--Nurse Dolores Villani acts as poll watcher at elections of the Patients Council of the Jewish Sanitarium and Hospital for Chronic Diseases, E. 49th St. and Rutland Road, while Helen Motchan casts her vote and Morris Rosenblum waits his turn. [The two patients are both sitting in wheelchairs.] Three hundred and six patients cast their votes for 48 nominees seeking the 15 seats on the Patients Council. The council's aim is to improve the morale of the patients by stimulating interests, developing recreational programs, and providing entertainment for the patients."
  • Date1953
  • 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: Mar. 1, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle; Jay Sharp Photos. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorSharp, Jay
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectHospital patients -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York ; Nurses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sanatoriums -- New York (State) -- New York ; Voting -- 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.