Hospital corners

Hospital corners
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Title: Hospital corners
Description:

Caption: "Hospital corners--St. John's [Home for Boys] boys make up their own beds, manipulating pillow slips with skill ..." The home was located in Rockaway Beach, Queens.

Date: 1952
Location: Queens (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Sharp, Jay.
More Details: Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched.
On verso: caption stamped: Feb. 17, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp.
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Social Welfare
Subject: St. John's Home for Boys (New York, N.Y.)
Bedmaking
Beds
Orphanages
Orphans
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library.
ID: SWEL 0587